Groundnut Chutney (Peanut)

Ingredients

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1 cup - peanuts

5 dried red chillies

1 small onion and 1 garlic clove - sliced to big chunks

2 teaspoons - tamarind pulp or to taste

½ tsp salt or to taste

For thalika or tadka - 1 tsp each - cumin, mustard seeds, urad dal and six curry leaves

Method

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1. Roast the peanuts in low flame 

2. Heat a tablespoon of oil to smoking point in an iron skillet. Add and brown dried red chillies, onion and garlic. Wait few minutes for them to cool down.

3. Grind the peanuts, Add other ingredients, plus tamarind, salt and a cup of water.Grind to fine consistency.

4. Remove the chutney to a bowl. 

5. Do the thalipu or tadka (toast thalika ingredients listed above, in half teaspoon of oil in a vessel), add them to the chutney. This is always the final seasoning thing we do.

6. Mix and serve.