Cranberry Chutney; Anniversary Special; Meatless Monday

As share of my weblog anniversary week, I wanted to convey to you healthy, yummy, delicious together with tardily recipes. What improve than this tangy, spicy cranberry chutney?

Fall brings inwards fresh cranberries to our area. Around thanksgiving, it is all close cranberries. I honey cranberries. I honey the color, the texture, the taste.. Everything close it. I eat cranberries all through the year. Dried ones, of course. I pose it inwards my oatmeal every morning, I add together it inwards my breads, pulav/ pulaf, I fifty-fifty snack on them.I potable cranberry juice quite often. Cranberries are adept for y'all later all. But, null 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 honey together with outset sight! Well, I select to say y'all close this amazing soul that is her mom. I am even thence to reckon a to a greater extent than efficient, creative, multi-talented, multi-faceted person. Her imagination is amazing! She tin make/ create things/ recipes that I could not. Not inwards a hundred years! Then again, I select really pitiable imagination! :(
This lady tin sow, practice wonders amongst arts together with crafts together with is a groovy chef! All this effortlessly, without complaining. She is a lady later my ain heart. She perseveres inwards feeding her identify unit of measurement healthy, freshly cooked food. This cranberry chutney is her master recipe. It is super-easy to brand together with super delicious! It could travel eaten equally a dip, equally a condiment to a repast together with equally chutney for bread/dosa/idli.

Servings: makes two cups of chutney

Ingredients:

Fresh cranberries: 1/2 lb or 250 gms
Urad dal ( split upwards matpe beans): two tbsp
White Sesame seeds: two tbsp
Dried reddish chillies: 3-4 count ( y'all tin suit based on your spice level)
Jeera( cumin): 1 tsp
Garlic clove: two small
Salt: equally 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 together with dry out the cranberries. Put them inwards a thick bottomed pan together with laid on a depression flaming amongst a petty tabular array salt until completely mushy. Takes close 10-15 mins. When done, plough off the flaming together with permit it cool down.

While the cranberries are cooling, individually dry out roast urad dal, sesame seeds together with cumin ( jeera) until toasted ( a slight olfactory belongings or it acquires a golden hue). Keep aside. Now inwards the same pan, dry out roast the reddish chillies together with continue aside.

Once the urad dal together with the sesame seeds select cooled down, pulverization them using a nutrient processor/ blender/ mixture. Add the reddish chillies, cumin seeds together with garlic. Grind to a fine powder. Now add together inwards the cooked together with cooled cranberries. Blend to a fine paste.Add tabular array salt equally needed.

Cranberry chutney is ready. Tempering is optional.

For tempering:
Heat crude oil inwards a small-scale sauté pan. Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together curry leaves together with 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 groovy fan of microwave cooking, inwards a pinch, y'all could toast the urad dal together with sesame seeds inwards the microwave. Do it a infinitesimal at a time. You could fifty-fifty laid the cranberries inwards the microwave. This would relieve fourth dimension together with y'all don't select to launder also many dishes!

Tip for good for y'all living:

Cranberry transcend the listing of good for y'all foods together with are considered "super food". They are extremely "nutrient-dense" together with 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 certainly types of cancer , improve immune business office together with attention trim back blood pressure. Cranberries are rich inwards vitamins C & due east together with dietary fiber. Cranberries tin travel consumed inwards juice form, relish/ sauce or fifty-fifty had equally 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:

The honey nosotros hand away is the exclusively honey nosotros keep. Elbert Hubbard