{"id":18424,"date":"2016-03-31T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:33:40","slug":"indian-coriander-chutney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/?p=18424","title":{"rendered":"Indian Coriander Chutney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"corianderchutneyp\"One more fantastic\u00a0discovery\u00a0from\u00a0Meera Sodha’s Made in India. Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen<\/a>! This chutney has been the highlight of the past winter moths. Its combination of refreshing, tangy\u00a0and\u00a0fiery flavours has such a spring touch, I would almost forget it was just another grey cold day. I have been using it as a spread, as a dip, as a sauce, as a condiment… It is equally good raw and cooked, with seafood, meat or vegetables, with rice or pasta… After at least a dozen different experiments, I \u00a0haven’t had a single failure and now that warm weather has arrived, I intend to stretch my list of its use even further. Obviously, I’ll share with you my impressions very soon.<\/p>\n

I have slightly changed the recipe, for example replacing the advised lemon juice with my beloved tamarind, so I encourage everyone to\u00a0buy\u00a0Meera Sodha’s book<\/a> for the original and other Indian home cooking treats (as an example you might want to\u00a0check\u00a0Roasted Cauliflower<\/a> I consider the best thing I’ve ever tasted\u00a0with this vegetable).<\/p>\n

TIPS: You need a really huge bunch of coriander here, so buy it at farmers’ markets. If you live in Switzerland, I also advise Aligro shops selling huge bags of coriander.<\/p>\n

This recipe is an excellent way to use also branches you discard while adding coriander leaves for example to Indian dishes, so make sure you don’t throw them. Simply buy another bunch and prepare this chutney.<\/p>\n

This is a particularly versatile product. As I have mentioned, it can be eaten raw or cooked\/simmered. It spices up carbs, vegetables, seafood and meat.<\/p>\n

This chutney freezes well if you intend to cook it afterwards (otherwise it’s too mushy to be served fresh) and is an excellent base for a quick weekday meal.<\/p>\n

Tamarind is a delicious “acidifier” of Indian – and also Thai – dishes. It is sold either fresh (but usually it’s the sweet snack version) or in hard dried blocks or in ready-to-use jam-like paste (in jars). I definitely prefer the block version because it keeps forever in the fridge (the paste does start growing mould after a long time in the fridge) and has a more lively taste than the paste (it’s dissolved in hot water and then strained to obtain “juice”). I never use the paste, so cannot tell you how much of it you should use; if it’s your choice, try to adjust the amounts to your preferences.<\/p>\n

Preparation: about ten minutes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingredients (makes enough for a dish with sauce for 4-5 people):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

150 g coriander leaves and branches<\/em><\/p>\n

4 heaped tablespoons unsalted peanuts<\/em><\/p>\n

1\/3 flat teaspoon\u00a0turmeric<\/em><\/p>\n

salt<\/em><\/p>\n

1 heaped teaspoon brown sugar<\/em><\/p>\n

3 small fresh green chillies (or more\/less, depending on your heat resistance), seeds removed (or not, if you want more heat)<\/em><\/p>\n

3 cm\u00a0tamarind block\u00a0(see the TIPS above) or ready-to-use paste (no idea how much)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you use the tamarind block, put the 3 cm square\u00a0into a glass and pour 50 ml hot water. Leave for fifteen minutes. (In the meantime start preparing the masala paste and the curry). After this time, mix it well and strain leaving the seeds. You will obtain tamarind “juice”.<\/p>\n

Chop\u00a0the coriander roughly and mix it to a slightly rough paste in a food processor (or grind a mortar).<\/p>\n

Taste and adjust the flavours if necessary (you should taste the heat, the tanginess and the sweetness at the same time, but of course their ratio is up to you).<\/p>\n

Put into a closed glass container and keep in the fridge for 3-4 days (or freeze for months, but once frozen, you can use it only in cooked version later).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One more fantastic\u00a0discovery\u00a0from\u00a0Meera Sodha’s Made in India. Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen! This chutney has been the highlight of the past…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[220,35,125,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18424"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}