Hotel style kaara chutney | Chutney recipes - Learning-to-cook (2024)

Hotel style kaara chutney recipe is an easy and spicy chutney recipe, which goes well with idli and dosa. If you have this chutney, you can not resist eating at least 6 hot hot idli’s.

How to make Hotel Style Kaara Chutney

This hotel style kaara chutney or simply the spicy chutney is very easy to make chutney yet tastes very delicious.

In some hotels the color and texture of the chutney simple attracts us too much. And there is a saying that, we can eat more idli’s based on the taste of the chutney’s alone. One such chutney is this kaara chutney recipe. Today we see how to make the hotel style chutney.

For any kind of chutney, I always prefer the gingelly oil or the so called sesame oil. It is good for health and chutneys taste great with this oil compared to other oils.

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• Kadala paruppu chutney
• spicy onion chutney
• Fried gram chutney with coconut
• Simple onion tomato chutney
• Peanut chutney

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Recipe to make the Spicy Chutney

Now Lets see how to make the Hotel style kaara chutney with step by step instructions and a video for your easy understanding.

Ingredients to make the recipe

For chutney

• Gingelly Oil – 2 tbsp
• Onion – 2 big size
• tomato – 2 med size
• red chilli – 7 to 8 (adjust as per your spice level) (but the more the tastier)
• salt – as needed
• garlic – 3
• asafoetida – little
• grated coconut – 1/2 to 3/4 tbsp
• kashmiri chilli powder – 1 tbsp (or kashmiri chilli – 1 or 2)

For Tempering

• Gingelly oil – 2 tsp
• mustard seeds – little
• black gram – 1/2 tsp
• curry leaves – 2 springs

Step by step instructions for preparing the Hotel Style Kaara chutney recipe

Lets see the step by step procedure to make the kaara chutney recipe with pictures.

To prepare the chutney

For this kaara chutney, add 2 tbsp of gingelly oil in a pan and when the oil is hot, add the onion, garlic and salt. I also personally prefer the rock salt or himalayan salt for the chutney.

Saute the ingredients well, until the onion becomes translucent. Now add the chopped tomato and the red chillies. The tomatoes must be tangy for this recipe, else you can add a little tamarind to this. Also adjust the chillies according to your spice level. The added chillies are spicy enough for our family taste buds.

Saute them again for a while. Now add the grated coconut and the kashmiri chilli powder. This kashmiri chilli powder is added to give nice color to the chutney. If you have the kashmiri chilli itself, then you can add 1 or 2 in the above step itself. since I don’t have them in hand, I have added the powder.

Saute till the water content goes off and switch off the stove. allow to cool down completely and transfer to a mixie jar or a food processor.

without adding any water, grind to a smooth paste. keep it aside.

Prepare the tempering

To prepare the tempering, in a pan or vessel, add 2 tsp of gingelly oil and when hot, add the mustard, black gram (urud dal), and curry leaves. If you want you can add one or two dry chilli. But as our chutney is spicy already, I have avoided adding the chilli here.

Now fry the dal till it turns light brown in color and switch off. Transfer the chutney to the serving bowl.

Add the tempering to the chutney and mix well.

Tasty, tempting and spicy Hotel style Kaara chutney is ready to served.

Serve the Hotel style kaara chutney with hot idli’s or dosa.

Notes

1. Always use sesame oil or the gingelly oil for chutneys.
2. Adding the kashmiri chilli powder gives a nice red color to your chutney. But is purely optional only.
3. Adjust the chillies as per your spice level.