Mowgli Chutney

Name: Mowgli Chutney
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes 1¼ cups
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, minced; 4 tbsp vegetable oil; ½ tbsp ground turmeric; ½ tbsp chilli powder; 2 green chillies, deseeded and thinly sliced; 1 tbsp cumin seeds; 5 curry leaves; 1 tbsp black mustard seeds; 1 cm/½ inch piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and grated; 6 large tomatoes, roughly chopped; 1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Makes
1¼ cups

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

This is a great tomato chutney that will keep in the refrigerator in a jar for weeks. It is the brave addition of ginger and garlic that elevates tomatoes to the level of Indian chutney here. Along with the hum of cumin that just gets better and stronger as time goes by.

Ingredients

4 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 tbsp

Asia
India
Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Put the vegetable oil in a large non-stick frying pan set over a medium-high heat. When hot, add the cumin seeds, mustard seeds and curry leaves and fry for around 30 seconds until the cumin seeds turn dark brown and release their fragrance.
Add the tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chilli powder, ground turmeric and green chilli and stir well. Turn the heat down to lo