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Friday, October 22, 2010

Loshne / Garlic Chutney




'Loson' in Konkani means garlic. Loshne (garlicky) chutney is among my favourite chutneys. My husband loves it too, so we make it quite often.

As a kid I loved having garlic chutney with pudde nonche (a pickle - maybe  a post on that some day) and pej (congee).

When I posted Easy Rice Flour Dosa, a couple of people asked me for the recipe of loshne chutney so I thought I'll post it right away. I did not take any pictures when I made it the last time though, so I'm just going to borrow a picture from the previous post.

Ingredients :
10 to 12 medium garlic cloves
1 to 2 tsp ghee
1 cup grated coconut
1 marble sized tamarind
2 to 3 roasted red chillies
Salt

Method :
Crush garlic, discard the peel.
In a pan heat ghee, throw in the crushed garlic and roast till the garlic turns golden brown. Sprinkle salt and allow to cool.

Grind coconut, tamarind, red chillies and salt with very little water, just a few spoons, into a coarse paste. Add the roasted garlic and grind further. Remember, this is a dry chutney, so add as little water as possible, but make sure it is properly ground.

This comes with practice I guess. A couple of times when my chutney turned slightly damp, I just refrigerated it overnight and the next day it looked dry.

24 comments:

  1. Dear Aparna
    This is an awesome chutney. I am going to make it immediately.
    Thanks for sharing and have a nice weekend

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  2. delicious chutney goes well with so many dishes

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  3. The dry garlic chutney sounds very interesting..thanks for sharing this Dear

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  4. flavorful chutney with garlic...looks mouthwatering...stuck and busy these days...wil catch up with all ur delicious posts soon....

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  5. diiferent recipe aparna--- looks tasty! and btw many congratulations on your new domain!!

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  6. Hey Aparna.. yay.. my favorite chutney. Our place we make it fairly wet. Nice to see your version with roasted garlic. I rem you had said that long back in your comment on my post! :)

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  7. looks delicious and aroma of chuney i like most

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  8. Very nice looking chutney dear. It can compliment many other preparations.

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  9. Garlic coconut chutney looks delicious. I will try it. Nice one.

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  10. I love the name of your blog. Apy as in Happy..cool!

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  11. Hey Apy...gr8 recipe yaar..i never had garlic chutney except the dry and red chutney powder in vada pavs in mumbai.....urs is worth a try.....
    Biny

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  12. This is my favourite chutney. Nice presentation Aparna.

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  13. My Fav chutney too..good combo with Panpolo..loved the colour of ur chutney .

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  14. Very tempting and flavourful chutney..

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  15. delicious, bet they would great with dosa!

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  16. very nice recipe,love the flavour of garlic and so am sure this one would be really good as well

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  17. Really love use of tamarind in the chutney.Would go well with almost anything!

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  18. A very tempting and different garlic chutney recipe. Delicious!

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  19. This is such a lovely chutney to pair up with dosa.... thanks for sharing..

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  20. Hey Aparna,

    I will look forward to your puddi nonche recipe :) .. Great blog!..

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  21. Second time in half an hour, spice starved me is seeing a spicy garlicky chutney!! Would love this smeared on my dosa!! Hey where are the breads/ bakes gal?? Dish them up soon!!

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