Madhura curry, date, tamarind and pineapple chutney

Madhura curry, date, tamarind and pineapple chutney

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Kerala’s Madhura Curry: Onions cooked in coconut oil with ginger and chili peppers, seasoned with tamarind juice, jaggery, and dates, and then finished wi…

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Despite its name, “sweet curry,” this is actually a thick, tangy-sweet, and slightly spicy chutney, which is mainly served with biryani in Kerala.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time15 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Resting30 min
  • Total1 hr
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodfrying pan
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

6 people
  • $0.41
  • $0.04
  • $0.25

Directions

  1. Soak the tamarind in a little warm water and then squeeze it to extract the juice.
  2. Heat the coconut oil in a frying pan, add the onions and salt, and cook until they are lightly golden.
  3. Add the ginger and chili pepper, and cook until browned. Then, pour in the tamarind juice.
  4. Add the jaggery and dates, and brown again until the mixture thickens and separates from the frying pan.
  5. Add the chopped pineapple and remove from the heat. ≈ 3 min

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 3 dates, pitted and chopped
  • 50 g of tamarind pulp
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 1 finely chopped red chili pepper
  • 50 g of powdered jaggery
  • 1 tablespoon of finely chopped pineapple
  • A pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons of coconut oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon of finely chopped ginger
  • A little warm water

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