Gongura Chutney Andhra Special

This is andhra special food item.Every one likes to eat this chutney with steam rice.This is very easy and traditional recipe.For this chutney preparation we should use mortar and pastle instead of mixie. Adding raw onion pieces increases the taste of the chutney.Of course adding onion pieces is optional.We can get health benefits from eating sorrel leaves and this is not preserved  sorrel leaves pickle.That preparation is totally different.This is regular chutney and eat this chutney with dosa(atla thaddi attu) also.

Ingredients

sorrel leaves	200grs
green chillies	25 grs
ginger	1
cumin seeds	1 spoon
salt	to taste
oil	4 spoons
onion	1
tamarind	1 flake

 Preparation

Wash sorrel leaves in the salt water and wash onion and green chillies also.
Cut onions into small pieces.
Cut each green chilli into 2 pieces.
Remove upper layer of garlic cloves

Method

1.Take a thickened bottom vessel and put on the flame.
2.Add 1 spoon of oil.When oil is heated add green chilli pieces and fry for 2 to 3 minutes till green chillies are fried well.
3.Remove green chillies from the oil and keep aside.
4.Add 2 spoon of oil and when oil is heated add sorrel leaves and cook for some time(nearly 20 minutes).
5.After some time water is coming from the sorrel leaves.Then add tamarind flake and cook till water is completely evaporated.
6.After some time oil is coming from the leaves.Then put off the flame.keep to cool .
7.Take a mixie jar and add fried green chillies,salt,cumin seeds and garlic cloves and make a smooth paste.
8.Take a  mortar and add green chilli paste and cooked sorrel leaves and tamarind flake.
9.Make a fine paste using pestle.
10.Finally  add  finely chopped onion pieces and taste the chutney if salt is enough or not.
11.If not add some more salt and mix all well.
12.Tasty  sorrel leaves chutney is ready to eat with hot rice.....

Keep in the mind

We can  make this chutney using mixie instead of  mortar.
But making this chutney with mortar gives different taste. Mixie makes the chutney fine paste..This is not gives nice taste and texture.In mortar we do  not make a fine paste.semi pasted sorrel leaves gives good taste as well as nice texture.
If you like seasonings you  can add seasoning(mustard seeds,urad dal or chana dal and curry leaves) also.