Cilantro Chutney
Cilantro chutney is an easy and yummy dipping sauce. This is versatile to use in a number of ways. Use this as a dip or a spread etc. This is a delicious vegan dip.
Servings: 1 cup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 - 3 cups cilantro leaves cleans and roughly chopped
- 2 - 3 sprigs mint leaves optional
- ½ small onion or 2 shallots
- 6 - 8 green chilies depending the spiciness of chilies and the spicy you need
- 8 - 10 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp cumin seeds or ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp salt or as taste
- ½ tsp chat masala
- 1 tbsp lemon juice juice of ½ medium-sized lemon
Instructions
- Wash and clean cilantro leaves.
- Add cilantro, onion, garlic, green chillies, cuin seeds in a blender.
- Add 2 - 4 tbsp water. (or as required to blend)
- Blend it to a fine paste.
- Once the paste is done, transfer to an air tight container.
- Now add salt, chat masala and lemon juice.
- Stir well mixing all.
- Store in the refrigerator.
Notes
Add 1-2 ice cubes since this helps in keeping the temperature cool while blending. This will give a nice vibrant color to the chutney.
Add green chilies as spicy as required and also depending on the spiciness of the chilies.
Chat masala also has some salt in it. So be careful while adding salt and chat masala. Taste and then add.