Tomato and Date Chutney is a Bengali style chutney, made with tomatoes and dates. The Chutney is sweet and slightly tangy.
Bengali’s are very fond of Chutneys, in-fact these chutneys form a special meal course for them. Normally chutneys are served along with a meal, but in a Bengali house, they are considered as a palate cleanser and served just before the dessert.
Mushy tomatoes and sweet dates combine to make this into a lip-smacking chutney, the panch poran masala gives it a wonderful kick and I must warn you that this Chutney is very very addictive, just like their Pineapple Chutney. The Bongs use raisins and cashews at times to make it rich, but it tastes absolutely delicious even without them too. It is a total burst of flavours, sweet, salty, spicy, tangy.
I made this Chutney as a part of the Bengali Thali, for Thali and Platter Festival. In fact, The Bengali Thali was made for the Diwali Festival and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. Today I am posting it under Pick 3 states and one dish from your choice, and for today I have picked Bengal.
Tomato & Date Chutney
Ingredients
4 tomatoes, chopped into small pieces
10 dates, roughly chopped
1 tsp mustard seeds
1-inch ginger, grated
Few curry leaves
2-3 whole red chillies, broken
1 tsp panch poran , coarsely ground
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp tamarind water
Salt to taste
Method
Heat about 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds, let splutter.
Add curry leaves and whole red chillies.
Immediately add ginger, chopped tomatoes and dates.
Sprinkle paanch poran and salt. Mix well.
Add sugar and 1/2 cup water.
Simmer and cook till mushy and well cooked.
Tomato and Date Chutney
Ingredients
- 4 tomatoes chopped into small pieces
- 10 dates roughly chopped
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 inch ginger grated
- Few curry leaves
- 2-3 whole red chillies broken
- 1 tsp panch poran coarsely ground
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp tamarind water
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat about 1 tbsp oil in a pan .
- Add mustard seeds , let splutter .
- Add curry leaves and whole red chillies .
- Immediately add ginger ,chopped tomatoes and dates .
- Sprinkle paanch poran and salt . Mix well .
- Add sugar and 1/2 cup water .
- Simmer and cook till mushy and well cooked.
When I had a similar sweet and sour tomato chutney in a thali, I totally enjoyed it. This one is on similar lines, would have made a great condiment on table!
Now this one is a super interesting chutney which will go amazingly well with a spicy biriyani or a masala style rice! I have to save this up and make this soon… Looks so yum!
Looks yummy. Awesome picture. The picture is so tempting that I have bookmarked to try.
A Lip smacking chutney for sure. I had made another version of Mishti chutney and we loved it too.
Nice recipe.. I must plan this for my fiance. hope he will like this..
thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe.
I tried a chutney version with raisins as I had run out of dates and can guess how flavorful and versatile this chutney is.