Sheep and Goat (Recipe: Chocolate coated strawberries)

I’m sure that I’ve touched upon this subject earlier as well, but recently the Lord lead me to Matthew 25, when I was in a particularly unpleasant mood. After reading the portion where the sheep and goat are separated, I felt more disturbed and even complained saying I needed some cheering up, reading this portion is depressing me more! But the Lord prompted me to read it again and so I did. I will post the gist of it here:

Mat 25: 33-36: He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

Of course, we all know what he said to the goats….not very pleasant….When I first read this portion I was wrought with guilt…thinking this makes things worse, not only am I struggling with sin, I am also not doing any of this, I am not feeding the hungry of the world, I did not dress beggars or visit people in hospitals…definitely not prison…And that’s when I was asking the Lord for a more encouraging portion to read, he asked me to read it again and revealed to me a most liberating message in this portion. Although we see in

Matt: 25:40: And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'

This clearly implies that the poorest or smallest of people are the most qualified for this help. However, the Lord told me that it does not rule out everyone else. Every deed that you do, every considerate and caring action that you do shows God’s love through you, and it does not necessarily have to be to complete strangers or random people. For example, if you have a friend who is sick, and you cook a meal for them, go visit them and help with their house work, that is still an act of love that God talks about in the portion. If you know that someone returning from work will be hungry, a neighbour or a relative, and you know that they have no one at home to prepare something for them, an act of love would be you making something for them. If someone you just met told you that they were new to the country or place, that they don’t have many friends and they are alone, if you invite them to your house and share a meal with them…that is an act of love. What God asked us to do in Matthew 25 is not just help the poor, who of course are the most deserving of our help, but He asks that we show His love, senseless, selfless love, that makes us go out of our way to make others happy or help them, even the poor, because true children of God cannot be comfortable when they see the need of others…that is not the nature of God. We see this in

Romans 8: 14: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

So if we are the children of God that we claim to be, we would be led by the Spirit of God, which would never allow us to be complacent to the needs and wants of others! If we are….then we are clearly not allowing ourselves to be led by the Holy Spirit.

The good news here is that we don’t have to necessarily seek out poor people or complete strangers to show acts of love and share God’s love, we can do it with people we come across in our every day lives…neighbours, friends, new acquaintances, colleagues….so there are plenty of opportunities for us to make sure we act like sheep….and not end up as the goat being banished with the devil!!!

Let us pray to the Lord that He would bless us with this heart of love and the eagerness to share God’s love with everyone we can.

Today’s recipe is terribly simple and is excellent for people who suffer from a sweet tooth (like me), but are trying to get healthy!!

Chocolate Coated Strawberries

Ingredients:

Strawberries – 1 Punnet / box (250gms)
Dark Cooking Chocolate – 200gms
Skewer or stick – 1

Instructions:

1.Place chopped cooking chocolate in a bowl and melt in the microwave for approximately 1minute and 30 seconds. (Some cooking chocolate comes with specific melting instructions).

2.Pluck out the leaves, was and dry the strawberries.

3.Wrap aluminum foil around a plate or tray.

4.Prick the skewer into the wide end of the strawberry and dip into the melted chocolate to coat well.

5.Carefully remove the coated strawberry onto the foiled tray. Repeat this process till all the strawberries are coated and refrigerate the tray.

6.Can be snacked on when faced with sugar cravings :) !

7.The dark cooking chocolate can be replaced with less healthier options of regular cooking chocolate or white cooking chocolate.

Eating with Jesus (Recipe: Sausage Quiche)

It’s been a very long break for me, with health issues, relocation/dislocation …but am hoping that by God’s grace, I would be able to keep this steady from now on…

Today I would like to talk about the references to food and eating in God’s word. Recently when I heard a very commonly used verse, the Lord revealed to me a significance that I had never seen before.

Revelations 3: 20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

So when the Lord says, I will come in and eat with you and you with me, what does this mean? I mean we all pretty much focus on the first part of the verse, Jesus is knocking at the door of our lives, and he can only come in if we open the door….but how often have we paused to think about the dining part? To understand the meaning of this dinner invitation, we need to see what Jesus refers to as food.

Matthew 4: 4: Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God”.

The word of God is also referred to as food here, not just bread but every word that proceeds from God’s mouth. So when Jesus talks about coming into our lives and eating with us, He appears to promising us the ability to better digest God’s word, that when He comes into our lives, we are able to sit with him and eat with him, or be nourished by the word of God. Here we see the significance of spending time with Jesus, it is not enough to invite him into your life, you also need to make the time to sit and eat with him! How subtly does God say this in Revelation, that he not only wants to come in, but he also wants to eat with us!

Another important factor we need to understand is that Jesus talks about eating here, not drinking. You see, a mature adult, eats his food, but a baby drinks his milk. Let’s take a look at

1 Peter 2:2: Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation

Wow! So there is a time when we are newborn babies in the spirit, where we must crave spiritual milk, that is when our understanding of God’s word is limited to the obvious messages. However, we are required to grow in our salvation, even as Jesus mentions, we must be able to eat from the word of God at some point. Most of the time after we come to salvation, we read the Bible and take the obvious messages from it, like the beatitudes, or two main commandments, or the morals from Jesus’ parables….but once we have gained the basic understanding of these portions, we stop, assuming that this was all we had to receive from the word. We need to grow, mature in our spiritual walk, stop drinking milk, but start eating, gain a deeper understanding of the things of God. God’s word has a different message almost every time you read, if we are ready to hunger for that deeper message. When that hunger is manifested, it shows that we are no longer babies, but growing into adults, ready for heavier food, ready for the deeper things, ready to eat with Jesus….

Let us pray to the Lord that he may help us grow from babies into mature adults, who don’t just drink the obvious truths from God’s word, but those that are ready to eat the solid food of God’s word.


Recipe for Sausage Quiche

Ingredients

Medium size Beef sausages – 4
Eggs – 6
Chopped Tomato – 2
Diced Onion – 1 Medium size
Sliced Mushroom – 1 cup
Shredded cheese – 1 cup
Chopped Coriander leaves – ½ cup
Diced Green chilly – 2 (optional)
Diced Garlic – 4 pods
Oil – 2 Tablespoons
Frozen Puff pastry – 1 sheet
Salt & Pepper – as required

Equipment

A quiche tray would be ideal, otherwise a slightly shallow, round baking dish would suffice.

Instructions:

1.Defrost Frozen Pastry Sheet. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

2.Spray oil into the baking pan, then place the pastry sheet into the pan, stretching it out from the center to fully cover the base of the pan as well as the edges, tearing off any excess corners. Be careful not to tear holes in the pastry.

3.Shallow fry or grill sausages and slice them up.

4.In a frying pan, heat a little oil, sauté garlic till light brow, add onions and fry till golden brown, to this add mushrooms and sauté well till they begin to brown as well. Add green chilly, followed by the cooked sausages, turn off flame.

5.In a bowl, lightly beat the eggs, add salt and pepper according to taste.

6.Take the baking pan lined with pastry, spread the sausage mix onto the pastry. Then pour in the beaten eggs, followed by the grated cheese. Finally finish off with chopped coriander leaves and bake for 35-40 minutes.

7.Allow it to cool for 10 minutes before slicing up and serving warm.

Do we fear God? (Recipe: Green Apple Pickle)

It’s been quite a while since I’ve been able to update this site. Initially it was my studies and then it became my health. I’ve been ill for a few months now but I am expecting a victory soon, and am certain that God is faithful to glorify Himself through my illness even! Amen!

Today I want to write to you about fearing God. What does the bible mean when it says ‘Fear of the Lord’ or ‘Fear the Lord’? Why should we fear God if we are supposed to love him? And how many of us do really fear him?

The word of God, right from the Old Testament all the way through the New Testament keeps emphasizing the need to fear God. There are many many verses that repeatedly remind us that fearing God is the beginning of wisdom. In other words, if you want to live wisely, you need to fear God. We see this in Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 9:10, Psalms 110:10 and many other instances in the Bible.

If we really sit and consider who God is….how holy He is, how great He is, how awesome He is, how mighty and powerful He is, how infinite He is….there is really no measuring or understanding who God is. And yet this great God has chosen us….He chose us to be rulers over His kingdom, fellow rulers with Christ Jesus…He chose us to be His children. The world was created so that we would be eventually born and take our place as God’s children. We see this in

Romans 8: 19: the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Everything that God ever did was for us. Many people keep asking why does God allow the devil to roam like this freely and attack God’s children…..for our discipline…so that we may learn what is right and what is wrong…so we may learn to choose to live right and fear God, even when we have the option of doing wrong. The devil is not an accident, but part of God’s master plan to weed out the wheat from the chaff…to reveal through the adversity he brings..who the true children of God are. A lot of us fear the devil, afraid of his attacks and afraid of the evil he is….but before the Lord our God..the devil is so puny..so tiny…so insignificant…that if the Lord were to look at the devil wanting him gone…pooof! The devil would be gone!!!!

So in a circumstance like that who do you think needs to be feared more? The Lord our God is might and awesome and truly to be feared. We take for granted His love and always choose to not fear Him, but He must be feared. When we have a bad thought, when we have a mean word, when we have an evil action….we need to be very afraid how the Lord will feel about what we just did….we need to fear God!
Mathew 10: 28: And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

We see here very clear instruction on who to fear. Many a times, we think that because Jesus forgives our sins, because we are saved by the blood of Jesus…we can live the way we want. That is not what Paul says in

Philippians 2: 12: …work out your own salvation with fear and trembling

We need to be so very careful not to offend God, and live in fear of Him. When we were young children, although we loved our parents dearly, we were still very afraid of them…we feared our parents. That is how we must fear God…if we refuse to turn from our evil ways or if we refuse to conform ourselves to the image of His son Jesus, then He will deal with us firmly.

We don’t need to be afraid of the devil, or people, or sickness, or circumstances….we need to fear the one who has power and authority over all these….the Lord our God. Let us pray to the Lord to grant us the wisdom and the grace to fear Him and walk in His ways so that we might please Him.

Recipe (Green Apple Pickle)

Ingredients:

Green Granny Smith Apples – 8 (cut in small cubes with skin on)
Sesame oil – 1 cup
Chilli powder - 3 tbspTurmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 3 stalksSalt - As reqdFenugreek powder - 1 tspAsafoetida powder - 1/2 tspVinegar – 1 cup
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Instructions:

1) Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds and splutter, followed by curry leaves.

2) Add the chopped apple, chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and vinegar. Stir well and allow to boil. Turn off flame.

3) Add fenugreek powder and asafoetida powder.

4) Set aside to cool and then store in airtight containers.

Called to walk in authority (Recipe: Sweet Corn Chicken Soup)

A recent study of the word took me to a passage in the bible that I realized is most often overlooked. When the verses above it are quoted, there does not seem too much significance given to this one, which appears to be quite sad because there is so much promise in it. Let’s take a look, everyone knows


Mark 16: 15-16: He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

We have read and heard these verses many times, but how many times have we focused on the next verses?

Mark 16: 17-18: And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.

Wow! Now that is a really amazing promise! We need to notice that Jesus says that these signs will accompany “those who believe”…..he is not talking about those who are preaching the good news….he says that these signs….casting out demons, speaking in tongues, healing the sick …all these signs WILL accompany those who believe in the gospel!

We are believers in the gospel….are we accompanied by these signs in our lives? The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12: 28: And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.

Speaking in tongues appears to be at the bottom of the ladder, but how many of us have even this sign? We are obviously not believing the way Jesus called us to believe, if we were, then we would be fulfilling his words! Personally, I know that I have not reached there, I am sure there are many who share this concern. We need to press forward in the Lord and immerse ourselves in His word. Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God….the more of the word we listen to…the more our faith increases and grows to the level that Jesus called us to be in.

Let us pray to the Lord to grant us to grow in our faith and reach that level of belief where those signs will truly follow our walk with God!

It’s really cold here so I’m putting up the recipe for some nice warm soup.

Sweet Corn Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

Chicken frame and bones – 1 kg
Chicken breast – 100gms
Water – 2 Liters
Sweet Corn Kernels – 1 Can
Soy Sauce – ¼ cup
Salt – as required
Pepper – as required
Egg white - 1
Corn flour – ½ cup
Cold water to mix corn flour – ½ cup

Instructions:

1.In a cooking pot, add salt, water and boil the water, add the chicken frame, bones and breast to the water.

2.Allow this to simmer for 30 minutes, then check if the breast meat is cooked. Take out the frame, bones and breast from the simmering water, which has now become stock.

3.Shred the breast meat and keep aside. Add the corn kernels to the simmering stock and increase the flame to allow it to boil for 10 minutes.

4.Add soy sauce, bring down the flame to simmer heat. Beat the egg white in a bowl.

5.Now pour in the beaten egg white while dispersing it with a fork in the soup.

6.Check for salt and add more if required, add some pepper as well for seasoning and allow the soup to boil for 10 minutes, then reduce to simmer.

7.Now mix the corn flour in cold water and pour into the soup. Stir well and increase the flame to allow the soup to boil.

8.The soup will thicken as it boils, turn off the flame when it has reached the desired consistency. If the soup does not thicken as much as you like, then mix some more corn flour in cold water and add to the soup. Allow it to boil further and also check if more salt is needed.

9.When the soup is thick enough, turn off the flame and serve hot.

Work is Worship? (Recipe: Date and Walnut cake)

Recently while reading the word, I was struck by a portion that seemed very relevant to most of us, as in the most innocent of ways, it makes us appear guilty.

Habakkuk 1: 16: Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.

Wow! This was a bang on the head for me! Here the person is accused of worshipping his work, because he depends on it for good subsistence. Does this not sound familiar with respect to our own attitudes to work? Most of us today sacrifice readily to our work, we sacrifice our time, our energy, our families and even our comforts…all this ironically, to ensure that we provide well for our families and maintain our comforts. We worship our work by making it our first priority over everything else. How many of us willingly give up a church service if we are called in to work at the same time? But how many of us will willingly take leave from work to attend a church service or fellowship? And so the obvious worship we give to our work is also quite apparent.

The Word of God easily explains this devotion to our work, it’s clearly because we depend on our work to provide us the luxury and rich food we need. Our dependence therefore, is not on the Lord, but on our jobs! We often forget the verse

1 Corinthians 10: 26: for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."

And Psalm 112: 1-3: Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,
who finds great delight in his commands. His children will be mighty in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house,
and his righteousness endures forever.
Many many other verses indicate that the Lord is our source and everything we have is a blessing from him. And yet we so easily forget this while we give our blood and sweat as slaves to our jobs. A person who does this is categorized as ‘wicked’ according to the Word of God. We are also aware of how the Lord strongly condemns worshiping anyone or anything apart from him as we see in
Exodus 20: 3: You shall have no other gods before me.
With all this instruction from the Lord, how is it that we still manage to forget these important things and let our entire lives revolve around our jobs?
Let us pray and ask the Lord to forgive us for disobeying him so blatantly and prioritizing our jobs as the source of our blessings, when it is actually the Lord!

Another sweet recipe for today!

Recipe for Date and Walnut cake


Ingredients:

Plain Flour – 280gms
Eggs – 2
Dates (pitted and chopped) – 200gms
Chopped walnuts – 75gms
Ground almonds – 75gms
Soft Brown Sugar – 150gms
Ground Cinnamon – 1 teaspoon
Ground Cloves – ½ teaspoon
Ground Nutmeg – ½ teaspoon
Salt – a pinch
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
Butter – 25gms
Soda Bicarbonate – 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder – 2 teaspoon
Water – 225ml

Icing (Optional)

Lemon rind – ½ lemon
Lemon Juice – 1 tablespoon
Icing sugar – 110 gms
Melted Butter- 10 gms
Cream – 1 Tablespoon


Instructions:

1.Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Boil water and pour into a bowl. To this add butter, dates and soda bicarbonate. Stir till butter melts and set aside to cool.

2.In another bowl, whip eggs and sugar, then add the cooled date mixture.

3.To this add flour, ground spices, salt, baking powder, followed by vanilla essence and the ground almonds as well as chopped walnuts.

4.Pour the batter into a well greased 8” or 9”springfoam cake pan and place into preheated oven to bake at 180 degrees for 35 minutes, then at 160 degrees for another 25 minutes. Stick a wet knife into the cake, if it comes out clean, the cake is done. Take out and set aside to cool. Remove frame from cake pan.

5.In a bowl, whip together lemon rind, lemon juice, icing sugar, melted butter and cream. Then pour this mixture over cooled cake and smooth over the cake. Let the icing set before serving.

Building your house on the rock (Recipe: Vegetable Manchurian)

We are all aware of the story of the two men who build houses in Mathew 7: 24-27:

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

Recently on reading this portion, the Lord revealed to me an aspect of this parable that has escaped me every time I have read it earlier. If building a house is likened to our spiritual walk, then we need to understand that both these men were on spiritual paths. They were both building houses. Jesus says here that anyone who hears his words and incorporates them in his spiritual walk is like a man who is building his eternity on solid foundation. His pursuit of eternal life and a firm relationship with God is then based on the unshakable rock that is the word of God! Meaning, he not only hears the word of God, he also acts on it!

Even merely hearing these words of Jesus are meant to produce faith as we see in

Romans 10: 17: Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

We are also aware that faith by itself is not effective, as we see in

James 2: 17: In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

So unless if we live our lives or pursue our spiritual walk as per Jesus’ instructions, then whatever attacks we may face, we will be unmoved, unshakable and indestructible!

However, if we only hear the words of Jesus, but do not act on them in our spiritual walk, we are quite likely to be disappointed in the end!

You see both men were building houses that they believed would stand in a storm and offer them security. Which is similar to two people who believe they are living Christian lives, and are protected because of their faith in Jesus. But unless that walk is in obedience to the word of God and visible by their deeds, that foundation is shaky! They may very well be disappointed in the end when they’re lives are ripped open by storms and waves….when their whole Christian walk seems to have been ineffective and pointless. At that point, if they are wondering how is it that their spiritual lives have been destroyed despite believing in Jesus, they would need to realize it was not built on the foundation of obedience to his words, but just on hearing or knowing those words!
Let us pray to the Lord to give us the strength and guidance to always be obedient to Jesus’ words so that our walk with God is built on a solid rock which will not be shaken no matter how much the enemy attacks!

Vegetable Manchurian

Ingredients:

Thinly Grated Carrot – 2
Thinly Grated Cabbage – 500gms
Finely diced Spring onion – 3 bulbs
Chopped spring onion – 3 bulbs
Salt – as required
Pepper – as required
Corn flour – 6 tablespoons
Plain flour – 4 tablespoons
Diced Green chilly – 2
Spring onion stems – 3
Diced garlic – 6 pods
Soy Sauce – 3 Tablespoons
Chicken Stock – 1 cup
Water – as required
Oil – as required

Instructions:

1.Squeeze out the water from the grated carrot and cabbage and place in a bowl. To this add the diced spring onion, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons of corn flour and 4 tablespoons of plain flour.

2.To this, add very little water gradually as required to form a consistency that allows you to roll this mixture into small balls.

3.Deep or Shallow fry these balls in a frying pan.

4.Heat 3 Tablespoons of oil in a dish, add the diced garlic and sauté till raw smell subsides. Then add diced green chilly, followed by the chopped spring onions and stir for a minute or so. Pour in the soy sauce, followed by chicken stock.

5.To this, add the fried balls. Mix 4 tablespoons of corn flour in ¼ cup of cold water and pour into the gravy when it boils. Let it boil for around 2 minutes or till the gravy gets thicker in consistency.

6.Garnish with chopped spring onion stems and serve hot.

What did you expect? (Recipe : Kerala Coconut Chutney/ Thenga Samandi)

I read an interesting portion today of how Jesus calmed the storm in Matthew chapter 8. We all know the story of how Jesus was sleeping while their boat was being flooded in the storm.

Matthew 8: 25 – 27: The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"

I found the last statement truly bewildering! The disciples were amazed that Jesus calmed the storm, that he commanded the winds and the waves…..this is probably understandable…but in verse 25, when they say “Lord, save us!”….what were they expecting?? They were obviously expecting him to save them, to resolve the situation…but when He did, they appear to be amazed that He could! So what did they think he would do to save them? Obviously not stop the storm! They expected something much much smaller, but just enough to procure their safety.

Jesus on the other hand was hoping they would not be so rattled by a storm, when He was in the boat with them! He rebukes their lack of faith in who He is, but their reaction to the display of His power just goes on to highlight that they had no idea who He truly was let alone of His power.

Is this how our faith is as well? We obviously have Jesus in our lives, He is in our boats….but when the storm comes, are we rattled, begging for Him to deliver us based on our small idea of who He is? Do we expect GREAT things from Him? If we truly know who He is, then is that not what we should do? I have a feeling that Jesus allowed that storm just so that He could give them and idea of how to think…..to stop looking for tiny miracles and look for BIG ONES. To not expect Him to just steady the boat, but stop the storm! Many times when we go through problems, we have an idea of the solution and we expect God to implement those ideas, we try to limit what the Lord can do because of our limited understanding of who He is! How disappointed Jesus must have felt, these men slept where He slept, ate with Him, spent every waking moment with Him and yet showed that they had no idea of who He was or what He could do for them, despite all the miraculous things He was doing! What more could He have done to show them His potential?

Are we not like this as well? We see what the Lord has done, not only in His word, but also in the lives of people around us and people we know! But we still we do not really believe in His power to do amazing things in our lives, to calm storms, change the weather, heal our sickness, and speak deliverance into our lives! There are instances in the Old Testament where the Lord kept the sun from setting for a whole day, and where the Lord turned back time! The Word says that God does not change in

Hebrews 13: 8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

So, what He did then, He can also do now! Let us pray to the Lord to remove any mental or spiritual blocks in us that would make us limit His power and potential to manifest those powers in our lives!

I’m going a little traditional with today’s recipe. Good old Kerala coconut chutney (thenga samandhi), it’s a favourite with rice and curd in Kerala.

Recipe for Kerala Coconut chutney ( Thenga Samandhi)

This recipe is made by grinding the ingredients on stone in Kerala. However, we would have to use a grinder.

Ingredients:

Dry Red Chilly – 4 (more if you need it really spicy)
Tamarind pulp – one teaspoon scoop
Red button onions – 4 or Regular Red Onion – ¼
Diced Ginger – 2 Tablespoons
Coconut – ½ cup
Salt – as required

1.In a frying pan, dry roast the red chilly.

2.In a wet grinder put in the red chilly, coconut, tamarind, onions, ginger, coconut, salt and grind till the chutney has an even texture. Avoid adding water as much as possible.

3.The chutney can be stored in the fridge for a few days and is excellent with white rice.