Cilantro Mint Chutney

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I have a favourite Indian restaurant close by that I usually crave just for their mint chutney, it is sooo incredibly good.  We order it with paneer pakoras which Evie also loves so we will have to start doubling and tripling the orders because we are like crazy seagulls fighting over them! Of course since she is the child we let her get her fill.  Since we have that mint field in the back garden we decided to search online and try our own which was reminiscent of my favourite but not really like it in consistency (probably because I used the NutriBullet) I am sure they hand chop everything.  This sauce was so good Evie even gobbled it up with her pakoras.  I did not make the pakoras, we ordered those from the Indian restaurant and picked them up just before we were ready to eat.  We will definitely be making this again!  I just saw that Natascha posted zucchini fritters and Elaine posted cauliflower cakes so I think I will be trying out those recipes to accompany the sauce.

This was very quick and easy to make.  I googled and checked pinterest and basically looked at a few recipes and combined different parts and came up with this.

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Into the large jar of the Nutribullet blender I added 1 cup fresh mint leaves along with 1/2- 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves (along wit h some team pieces), a thumb sized pieces of ginger chopped and 1 green chile, chopped and about 1TBSP fresh squeezed lemon juice, 1tsp cumin powder and a good pinch of salt.  I blended a little and it was dry so I added enough water just a TBSP or two and blitzed again.  This loosened the sauce a blended it nicely.

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Do not take a huge sniff when you take the lid off, it will knock your socks off, pretty potent stuff.   I did and it was like smelling salts.

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I placed it in a jar in the fridge until ready to use.  Give a stir before pouring out in bowl as some separation may occur.

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This sauce was so fresh and spicy, delicious!

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5 comments on “Cilantro Mint Chutney

  1. Looks so good! Thank you so much for linking my post! Can’t wait to try this! 😊😊😆😆😆

  2. Looks fab! Such a great colour, and I think it would definitely be good with the cauliflower cakes 🙂 thank you for including me in your post x

  3. chef mimi says:

    This looks wonderful. And it sounds like a bottled chutney, that is more liquidy, that my friend gave from an Asian store. Can’t wait to make it myself!

  4. […] I took two different recipes and put them together for this meal and it worked. I used a bottled cilantro chutney to drizzle, which would have been even better if I had the time to make my own version. […]

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