Coconut chutney

No south indian breakfast is truly complete without the coconut chutney!

Ingredients:
1 cup coconut, grated.
3-4 twigs of curry leaves.
1 tbp roasted chana/gram
1 dry red chilli
1 tsp mustard.
Salt to taste

Grind all of them together except the mustard seeds.


Now is the interesting part! The tempering without oil!  The same method is used in the sambhar and many other recipes.
Heat a small thick bottom pan.

When sufficiently hot, add the mustard seeds.
Keep stirring, till they splutter.

Make the gas low and add the chilli

and the curry leaves.

Stirr just a bit and then pour over the chutney mix.

Serve with hot red rice idlis!