As percentage of my weblog anniversary week, I wanted to convey to you healthy, yummy, delicious in addition to slowly recipes. What amend than this tangy, spicy cranberry chutney?
Fall brings inwards fresh cranberries to our area. Around thanksgiving, it is all almost cranberries. I beloved cranberries. I beloved the color, the texture, the taste.. Everything almost it. I eat cranberries all through the year. Dried ones, of course. I position it inwards my oatmeal every morning, I add together it inwards my breads, pulav/ pulaf, I fifty-fifty snack on them.I drinkable cranberry juice quite often. Cranberries are practiced for you lot later all. But, zip beats fresh cranberries!
Last twelvemonth during Fall, when I visited my best friend, Phani, I came across this amazing chutney that her mom made. It was beloved in addition to outset sight! Well, I pick out to say you lot almost this amazing somebody that is her mom. I am withal to regard a to a greater extent than efficient, creative, multi-talented, multi-faceted person. Her imagination is amazing! She tin laissez passer on the axe make/ create things/ recipes that I could not. Not inwards a hundred years! Then again, I pick out really pathetic imagination! :(
This lady tin laissez passer on the axe sow, do wonders amongst arts in addition to crafts in addition to is a neat chef! All this effortlessly, without complaining. She is a lady later my ain heart. She perseveres inwards feeding her household unit of measurement healthy, freshly cooked food. This cranberry chutney is her master recipe. It is super-easy to brand in addition to super delicious! It could live on eaten every bit a dip, every bit a condiment to a repast in addition to every bit chutney for bread/dosa/idli.
Servings: makes two cups of chutney
Ingredients:
Fresh cranberries: 1/2 lb or 250 gms
Urad dal ( split upward matpe beans): two tbsp
White Sesame seeds: two tbsp
Dried blood-red chillies: 3-4 count ( you lot tin laissez passer on the axe adapt based on your spice level)
Jeera( cumin): 1 tsp
Garlic clove: two small
Salt: every bit per taste
Tempering ( optional):
Coconut oil: 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Hing pulverization ( asofoetida ): a pinch
Method:
Rinse in addition to dry out the cranberries. Put them inwards a thick bottomed pan in addition to create on a depression open fire amongst a fiddling tabular array salt until completely mushy. Takes almost 10-15 mins. When done, plow off the open fire in addition to permit it cool down.
While the cranberries are cooling, individually dry out roast urad dal, sesame seeds in addition to cumin ( jeera) until toasted ( a slight odor or it acquires a golden hue). Keep aside. Now inwards the same pan, dry out roast the blood-red chillies in addition to hap aside.
Once the urad dal in addition to the sesame seeds pick out cooled down, pulverization them using a nutrient processor/ blender/ mixture. Add the blood-red chillies, cumin seeds in addition to garlic. Grind to a fine powder. Now add together inwards the cooked in addition to cooled cranberries. Blend to a fine paste.Add tabular array salt every bit needed.
Cranberry chutney is ready. Tempering is optional.
For tempering:
Heat crude inwards a small-scale sauté pan. Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together curry leaves in addition to hing. Pour it on transcend of the chutney. Mix good earlier serving.
Store the chutney inwards an airtight container. Stays fresh inwards the fridge for upto two weeks.
Serve amongst rice/ dosa/idli / bread! I am going to convey this dip to the Anniversary block political party at Angie's Fiesta Friday! I don't desire the co-hosts Hilda & Julianna to fret because they are out of dips!
Cooking made easy:
Even though I am non a neat fan of microwave cooking, inwards a pinch, you lot could toast the urad dal in addition to sesame seeds inwards the microwave. Do it a infinitesimal at a time. You could fifty-fifty create the cranberries inwards the microwave. This would salve fourth dimension in addition to you lot don't pick out to launder also many dishes!
Tip for good for you lot living:
Cranberry transcend the listing of good for you lot foods in addition to are considered "super food". They are extremely "nutrient-dense" in addition to are really rich inwards antioxidants. Of course, depression inwards calories! Cranberries are specially known for their benefits inwards preventing/ curing urinary tract infection. They are also known to foreclose sure enough types of cancer , improve immune move in addition to attention cut back blood pressure. Cranberries are rich inwards vitamins C & due east in addition to dietary fiber. Cranberries tin laissez passer on the axe live on consumed inwards juice form, relish/ sauce or fifty-fifty had every bit a snack when dried.
References:
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cranberries-year-round-superfood
http://www.healthyeating.org/Healthy-Eating/All-Star-Foods/Fruits/Article-Viewer/Article/205/Health-Benefits-of-Cranberries.aspx
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=145
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269142.php
Food for thought:
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