Kerala-Style Chammathi Recipe
Ingredients:
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Dried red chillies - 4
Shallots - 4
Garlic - 2 cloves (optional)
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Tamarind - half a lemon size
Salt - to taste
How to Make Chuttaracha Chammanthi
1. Heat a non-stick pan and roast the red chillies dry (without oil) till it reaches the stage just before burning.
2. Add the coconut, chopped shallots, garlic and coriander powder and roast for another 2 mins. The coconut will start getting brittle. At this stage, remove from fire.
3. Grind this mixture in very little water with salt and tamarind.
Enjoy!
Note:
You can also roast the coconut pieces on an open flame with tongs for a more authentic burnt coconut flavour and smell in the chutney. Traditionally this is done on coal fire that's used for cooking but our gas flame would work as a good substitute. The coconut pieces should become charred and practically burnt in some areas for the flavour to come through fully. The best chuttaracha chammanthi is made my this family friend of ours whose mom loves it. I have never been able to replicate that taste and flavour in my chutney, ever.
Karamana
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Anonymous
Looks like KFC chicken 🙂
Anonymous
Tht was simply delicious. Thank you for this, keep going
Laavanya
Wow this looks extremely good and the ingredient list is enough to make my mouth water.
PJ
Hi Nags,Prepared this chutney to go with our weekend breakfast and we loved it! wonderful recipe![just posted it in my blog].I think this will become a regular sidedish!
Nags
Thanks PJ. We love chuttaracha chammanthi too and this is my always-go-to recipe 🙂
Anonymous
Awesome...........
Anonymous
EXCELLENTO!!been a long time since i had this wonderful dish....i'd suggest one slight variant-instead of grated coconut use big pieces of coconut and roast them with the red chillies turning them black on the outside as well..it'll give a more smoky flavour to it.. thanks for reminding me of this
Sreelakshmi
Excellent dish...Awesome..I liked it..
Anonymous
It looks and sounds delicious, but I am sorry to point out that it is definitely not oil free. The coconut has an ample quantity of oil in it.