By Dr.Sirisha Potluri:
Ingredients:
2 medium sized beets washed, peeled and diced!
Beet greens also washed thoroughly and chopped!
6 green chili
5-6 dry red chili
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
10-12 garlic cloves
1 -2 inches tamarind rib
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
3-4 pitted dates
Procedure:
Sauté green chili, dry red chili, coriander seeds on low to medium flame for 3-4 minutes, then add tamarind after removing seeds and hard ribs, Sauté for a minute, then add sesame seeds, continually stir for 1-2 minutes, then add garlic cloves and ofc the stove! Stir this mix few more times, so that garlic cloves also get some heat from rest of the ingredients. Let this mixture cool and add to a blender and grind to a coarse mixture!
In a thick bottom pan, Sauté diced beets for 2 minutes, then add diced greens, sauté all this for 2-3 minutes and off the stove. Let this cool down, then add beets, greens and pitted dates to coarsely ground mixture of spices and grind it all together to a coarse chutney consistency!
Serve this a chutney, dip etc!
