Small Onion Garlic Thokku | Chinna Vengayam Poondu Thokku 

Small onion and garlic thokku is a delicious, spicy chutney/thokku which can be made very quickly and stored for a week .It can be used as a side dish for almost all the tiffin varieties.You can even mix it with rice. Learn how to make this traditional chinna vengayam poondu thokku recipe or spicy small onion garlic thokku recipe below.

Ingredients

Small onions-20 nos or 1 cup
Garlic-10 cloves(chopped)
Red chillies-8-10 nos
Tamarind-a small gooseberry sized
Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
Salt-to taste
Jaggery-1 tsp
Gingelly oil-2 tbsps
Curry leaves few

Recipe Video

Method

👉Grind the red chillies ,tamarind and salt to a fine paste adding little water set aside.

👉 Heat gingelly oil in a kadai add mustard seeds,curry leaves allow it to splutter.

👉Then add garlic fry for few minutes until they are half cooked,

👉Add small onions and cook well.

👉Now add the paste and little water and allow it to cook until raw smell goes and oil oozes on top and the thokku thickens

👉Finally add jaggery mix well . Cook for few seconds and switch off the stove.

👉Serve with idly, dosa, appam,kuzhi paniyaram,chappati ,poori and you can even smear it on bread and toast it .

Preparation Time-15 mins
Serves-4

Note

✍️This chutney can be kept for one week.use a dry spoon .
✍️It's a very spicy chutney so be careful while serving to kids and old people.