COCONUT CHUTNEY (TYPE 1)

Ingredients
1 cup dessicated coconut or 1/2 cup fresh coconut scraped
4 to 6 Green Chillies (depending on how hot you want it)
1 small bunch of corriander leaves
1/2 cup Fried Graam Daal
Tamarind and Salt to taste


For Seasoning:

1/4 teaspoon of Mustard Seeds
1/4 teaspoon of Urad Daal
3 pinches of Asafoetida


Method

Cut the green chillies and fry them in a small pan with little oil. Mix it with coconut, fried graam daal, corriander leaves, tamrind and salt. Grind this to a fine paste. Pour it into a saucepan and garnish with seasoning.

Seasoning:

In a small frying pan, heat oil. Add mustard seeds, Urad daal and asafoetida. When the urad daal turns golden brown, remove from fire and add it to chutney.

Note:
(*) If fried graam daal is not availabe then, dry roast channa daal and use it.
(**) Lemon juice can be used instead of tamarind.