Ingredients:

• Tomato – 1 large
• Onion -1 medium
• Dried red chillies – 3 to 6 as per your taste
• Karipatha – 5 sprigs
• Garlic – 4 Cloves
• Tamarind – size of marble
• Oil and salt
• For tempering:
• Urad Dal – 1/2 tsp
• Mustard – 1/2 tsp
• Hing – a pinch
• Oil

Method:

1. Chop tomatoes and onion into large pieces. Peel garlic.
2. Heat a tsp of oil in kadai. Fry red chillies, karipatha and garlic. Remove and keep aside.
3. Add some more oil. Fry the tomatoes and onion till all the moisture is absorbed. Cool.
4. In mixie, grind chillies, karipatha, garlic, tamarind with little water to smooth paste.
5. Then, add tomato and onion and grind.
6. Remove and temper with mustard, urad dal, and hing in hot oil.
7. This chutney is served with a tsp of gingili oil or hot melted ghee poured over it on the plate.

Recipe courtesy of Raji