Sunday, September 12, 2010

Grape Thokku



I had these black grapes that the better half got, which turned out to be extremely sour. I decided to try out something new with the sour grapes, and to my surprise, it turned out amazingly well. Everyone loved it!! Sour grapes are not so bad, after all! :)

I am submitting this entry for the Complete My Thali Contest at Jagruti's blog!



Ingredients:

A bowl of seedless red grapes (if they are with seeds, de-seed them)
Salt to taste
A piece of ginger
2 green chillies
Hing to taste
Sugar to taste
Methi seeds to taste
Oil for tadka
Turmeric powder to taste
Mustard seeds

Method:

1) Grind the grapes in a mixer to a paste, without adding water.
2) Remove the peel from the ginger. Grind the ginger and green chillies to a paste in mixer.
3) In a pan, heat some oil. Add hing powder, methi seeds and mustard seeds. Allow the mustard seeds to splutter.
4) Add the green chillies-ginger paste and cook for a while.
5) When it starts changing colour, add the grapes paste.
6) Add salt, sugar and turmeric powder to taste.
7) Cook it on low flame,stirring well, till the paste starts to thicken. Take off from gas when cooked well.

Tastes well with parotas, chappatis and rice items.

4 comments:

Kalyan said...

Made thokku out of sour grapes?- very innovative.

Priya Iyer said...

@Kalyan

Thank you!! :) It tastes quite good, too!

I just tried it out on a whim, and it turned out so well that I myself was surprised. Maybe that's what they call serendipity. :)

Hayley said...

Innovative chutney...thanks for the entry

Priya Iyer said...

@Jagruti

Welcome here!! Thanks for stopping by. :)