Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 1 cup

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 10 -12 red chillies
2. 1 medium sized garlic
3. 1 tsp cumin seeds
4. 1 tsp coriander seeds
5. 1 sprig of curry leaves
6. 1 small sized onion (optional)
7. 1 tsp oil
8. 1 gooseberry sized tamarind
9. 2 tsp salt or as per your taste

Instructions for making goddu khara or spicy red chilli chutney:

1. Take red chilies and oil in a pan. Fry until chillies are crisp.
2. Add in peeled garlic and continue frying until garlic turns slightly brown.
3. Next add in coriander seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
4. Fry until curry leaves turns crisp. And switch off the stove.
5. Optioanlly peel and burn the onion. Preferably over the wood fire, if not over the stove top.
6. Take fried ingredients, burnt onion, salt and tamarind in a mixie jar.
7. Grind it into a paste by adding required water. Adding boiled and cooled water increases the shelf life.
8. Serve it with hot rice or rotti along with ghee. You can store it in the refrigerator for a month.

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