Vada Pav Chutney Recipe (Dry Garlic Chutney)
Vada Pav Chutney (Dry Garlic Chutney, Lasun Khobra Chutney) is the secret to taking your vada pav to the next level. Use my easy recipe to make it.
Servings: 1 cup
Ingredients
- ¼ cup peeled garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon raw peanuts
- ½ cup grated dry coconut
- 1 tablespoon white sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons Kashmiri red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Add garlic cloves to a pan and dry-roast over medium-low heat until the cloves develop brown patches and smell toasted rather than raw, stirring frequently. Remove to a plate.
- Add raw peanuts to the pan and dry-roast on medium-low for 4 to 5 minutes until the skins darken and the peanuts turn crunchy. Remove to a plate.
- Let the roasted peanuts cool, then rub between your palms to flake off the pink skins. Discard the skins; they taste slightly bitter.
- Add coconut to the pan and dry roast on medium-low heat until it turns a pale golden brown and smells sweetly toasted. Remove to a plate and set aside.
- Dry-roast sesame seeds until they crackle and pop (30 to 45 seconds). Pull them off the heat the moment they turn pale gold.
- Let all the roasted ingredients cool for 10 minutes. This is non-negotiable. Warm ingredients release oil when ground, and oil turns your dry chutney into a paste.
- Now add all the roasted ingredients to a mixer-grinder along with Kashmiri red chili powder and salt. Pulse in short bursts. Don’t run the grinder continuously. You’re looking for a coarse, sandy texture, not a fine powder. Ten to fifteen one-second pulses usually do it.
- Dry garlic chutney is ready. Store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks or freeze for up to 3 months. Use as desired.
If your cloves are large, slice them in half first so they brown evenly.
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Notes
This recipe is almost impossible to get wrong if you follow one rule: dry-roast each ingredient separately, because they brown at wildly different speeds.
If dry coconut is unavailable, then you can use dessicated coconut.
Nutrition
Calories: 365kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 2736mg | Potassium: 859mg | Fiber: 15g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 7120IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 236mg | Iron: 7mg
