Almond Chutney / Badam Chutney

This is one of the simple side dish, if your kids don’t like to eat nuts feed them this way they can’t figure it out. It looks like coconut chutney but rich and healthy nuts are hidden inside. Most of them think nuts will add up fat but it contains good fat, taking them regularly is good for health. When following diabetic diets, adding nuts in your meal is good, you will not feel appetite for longtime since fat takes long time to digest this is been recommended by doctors too.

Ingredients:

Almonds	½ cup
Grated coconut	½ cup
Garlic pod	1 small
Dry red chili	1-2
Curry leaves	few
Salt	as per taste
Water
To Temper:
Oil	1 tsp
Mustard seeds	1 tsp
Asafetida	a pinch
Urad dhal	1 tsp
Curry leaves	Few
Dry red chili (optional)	1

 

Directions:

1. Soak almonds with enough water for 2-3 hours, remove the skin and grind to course powder add coconut, chili, salt, curry leaves and garlic.
2. Grind to course paste with enough water.
3. Heat oil and splutter all the ingredients in the list and add to ground chutney.
4. Serve it with idli, dosa, uppma or pongal.

Note:

• Instead of soaking for 2-3 hours even you can microwave for 1-2 minutes.
• You can reduce the coconut or even leave that, but you will feel a nutty taste and crunchy texture. Since we don’t like that texture I use to add coconut.

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Almond Chocolate Macaroons

It’s easy and taste sweet. Even it’s good for kids it has almonds and their favorite chocolate. It takes only 20 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

Coconut	1 cup
Almond finely chopped	¼ cup
Sweetened condensed milk/Milkmaid	5 Tbsp
Chocolate wafer	6-7
Butter	2 Tbsp
Powdered sugar	1 ½ Tbsp

 

 

 

Directions:

1. In a large bowl mix first three ingredients. Check for sweetness if you are sweet toothed you might need more condensed milk.
2. Using a food processor or mixe grind the wafer and make wafer crumbs it should be ½ cup.
3. In another bowl add wafer crumbs, powdered sugar and butter mix well until sets.
4. Divide that into 12 equal small balls, flatten them and make like cookie shape or small circle.
5. Now take a spoon full of coconut almond mixture and place that on top of the wafer circle. Arrange that like a mountain with wafer mixer as abase.
6. Place this on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes or coconut turns golden brown on top at 350º F.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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