Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/2 cup roasted gram or hurigadale
2. 1 tsp mustard seeds
3. 1 tsp cumin seeds
4. 3 - 5 green chillies (adjust as per your taste)
5. few curry leaves
6. 2 onions
7. Big pinch of turmeric powder
8. 1 cup curd
9. 2 tsp jaggery (or sugar)
10. 2 tbsp coriander leaves
11. 2 tbsp cooking oil
12. Salt as per your taste

Instructions for making betageri chutney:

1. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a frying pan. Add mustard and cumin seeds. Wait until mustard seeds splutter.
2. Add in finely chopped green chillies or green chilli paste.
3. Also add in curry leaves.
4. Followed by add in finely chopped onions. Fry until onion turns slightly brown.
5. Add in turmeric powder and salt as per your taste.
6. Give it a quick mix and switch off the stove.
7. Take roasted gram (roasted chana or hurigadale) in a mixie jar.
8. Make a fine powder.
9. In a container take the curd and add 5 tbsp of roasted gram flour.
10. Mix it well. Make sure there are no lumps. Adjust the consistency by adding the required water. Let it have think milkshake consistency.
11. Add 2 tsp jaggery (or sugar). Give it a quick mix.
12. Add it into the onion tempering. Mix it well again.
13. Add coriander leaves and give it a quick mix.
14. Serve the chutney with poori or dosa or idli. It tastes good with anything. I served it with chapati.

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