Name: Tomato Khejur Chutney recipe by Sana Tungekar at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 3 ripe fresh tomatoes chopped small quarters; 2tblspn Sugar; 2 whole red chillies dry deseeded; 3-4 dates; 1tblspn raisins; Some cashews optional; 1-2 pieces tamarind /1tspn mango powder; 1 inch piece ginger; 1 green chilli optional; 2tblspn mustard oil or Canola oil; Paanch Foran:; 1/4th nigella seeds; 1/4 th mustard seeds; 1/4th fennel seeds; 1/4th cumminseeds; 1/4th fenugreek seeds

ABOUT Tomato Khejur Chutney RECIPE

Bengali style Tomato dates chutney with aroma of panch-phoran,a lovely sumptuous aromatic sweet and sour chutney .The Bengalis favourite aromatic paanch foran gives the flabours as of fennelseeds,rai,kalonji,cumminand fenugreek seeds.Ripe tomatoes are the base of thi awesome chutney.

Ingredients Serving: 4

3 ripe fresh tomatoes chopped small quarters
2tblspn Sugar
2 whole red chillies dry deseeded
3-4 dates
1tblspn raisins
Some cashews optional
1-2 pieces tamarind /1tspn mango powder
1 inch piece ginger
1 green chilli optional
2tblspn mustard oil or Canola oil
Paanch Foran:
1/4th nigella seeds
1/4 th mustard seeds
1/4th fennel seeds
1/4th cumminseeds
1/4th fenugreek seeds

Instructions

Gather ingredients
Chop tomatoes in small quarters
Heat oil in a pan
Add the Paanch foran as oil heats up
Splutter, heat stir 1 minute
Add the whole dry red chillies broken into pieces ,deseeded
Stir and add the tomatoes with the ginger prices so ginger doesn't burn
Stir well add salt now,cook 5-8 minutes stirring or covered on slowly till tomatoes start getting mushy
Add the washed tamarind,raisins and Dates opened
Add 2 tblspn sugar or as per taste less
Stir on slow let sugar give the dampness and cook further
If need to soften more add 1/2cup water,I didn't add
Add few cashews mix well remove in a glass bowl enjoy or store for 4-5 days

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