Roasted garlic mint and peanut chutney

I am a huge fan of mint, when ever I find fresh mint at the grocery store I grab one. I add it to the pulav or for side dish. Mint chutney is my favorite, my amma used to prepare this most of the time for breakfast since childhood. Peanut give great taste and flavor to this chutney. Garlic provides a stint of flavor, that everybody loves.

Some people dont like the flavor of garlic, in that case it can be skipped. Chutney will taste good even without garlic.

Mint chutney

Ingredients :

Mint - 1 bunch (Small)
Peanuts - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 1/2 M
Green chili - 1
Urad dal /Black gram - 2 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Garlic - 2 cloves
oil - 2 tbsp
Salt - as per taste 

rich Green mint :)

Method:

Dry roast peanuts and remove the skin. Cut green chili & tomato into pieces. Grate the garlic.

In a pan add oil, then urad dal. Dal turns slightly brown add the mint leaves. (You should remove the leaves from the stalk, leaves are the only edible part). Saute it till the leaves changes the color to dark green and tomatoes are cooked - water should be evaporated and it should be dry. Allow it to cool.

Grind it adding green chili + mint mixture (urad , mint , tomato) + Peanuts and salt in a blender smoothly.

In a tadka pan, heat a tbsp of oil add mustard seeds after it splutter add the grated garlic. Roast it for a minute. Do not burn it. Now add it to the chutney. 

Enjoy with dosa or roti or even rice. 

Thanks for reading 

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