Milagai Chutney

This Onion-Tomato-Coriander-Chilli cutney often comes to my resuce when i want to rustle up a really quick absolutely delicious side dish for dosai/idli/paniyaram/appam/adai and so on - an accompaniment with almost any "batter" based dish.

Milagai chutney

Ingredients

Onions - 3 big chopped roughly
Tomato - 2 chopped roughly
Red Chilli - 3
Coriander leaves - a handful
Mustard seeds- 1 tspn
Urad Dal - 1 tspn
Oil - 2 tspn
Salt - as per taste

To Temper

Mustard seeds - 1 tspn
Urad dal - 1 tspn
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Oil - 2 tspn

Method

Heat oil in a pan. Add the mustard seeds, and when they crackle, add the urad dal. When the urad dal turns brown, add the onions and saute it just until its about to turn brown. Now add in the chopped tomato and salt and saute it till it becomes soft and gives out its juice. Add the coriander leaves and red chilli, and saute for a minute or two and switch off flame. Cool it and blend into a fine or coarse paste in the mixer. Transfer this to a serving bowl.

Now heat oil in the same pan and add  the given ingredients under "To Temper". Pour this over the chutney. Serve hot with idli/dosai

We had them with godhumai[wheat] dosai's for dinner. :)