Easy No Coconut Fried Gram Chutney – Pottukadalai Chutney recipe with step-wise pictures. Easiest, quickest side dish for idli or dosa or other breakfast recipes.

I have an easy Chutney recipe to share today. I made Pottukadalai Chutney without coconut over the weekend and I just couldn’t wait to share it here. Having grown up in a household that used coconut fairly everyday and Coconut Chutney, Peanut Chutney made every other day, I grew really bored of it for a few years. I remember arguing with Amma that I wouldn’t touch the white coconut chutney and what a sweet soul she is that she would make something different just for me. Of course, I realized my mistake the minute I moved out of our home. I craved for the very things I didn’t like and requested amma to make it for me whenever I went home. Blame it on age or maturity, I don’t complain about food anymore, use all types of vegetables and eat everything that is put on my plate. Anyway, I digress.

As onions and green chillies are roasted in oil, before being made into chutney – there is a mild sweetness to the chutney. The spiciness of the green chillies hit you a moment later, making it a really great eating experience. It is possible to make the same chutney with roasted peanuts in the place of fried gram/pottukadalai. Growing up, I have tasted chutneys without coconut but they are made with dried red chillies or with chana dal and not with fried gram. In all ways, this Pottukadalai Chutney is unique and tastes great! It goes well with idli, dosa or even poori/roti.