green grapes gojju recipe | drakshi gojju recipe
In case you end up with sour green grapes here is the recipe to make use of sour green grapes – green grapes gojju. Sour, sweet and spicy side dish for rotti, chapathi, rice and more.
This is Vegan and gluten free recipe.
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Ingredients for making green grapes gojju:
- 3/4 cup green grapes
- 14 red chilies (7 byadagi and 7 guntur red chilies)
- 1/2 tbsp uddina bele / urad dal / split black gram
- 1 tsp menthya / fenugreek seeds
- few curry leaves
For seasoning:
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/8 tsp hing/asafetida
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp uddina bele / urad dal / split black gram
- 1/2 tsp kadle bele / chana dal / split bengal gram
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- few curry leaves
- 1 red chili (broken )
- 3/4 cup fresh grated coconut
- tamarind – wash and soak it in water
- ( quantity depends on the sourness of grapes)
- 1 tbsp rock salt or salt to taste
- 1 tbsp rock salt or salt to taste
- generous amount of jaggery( quantity depends on the sourness of grapes)
- Chopped coriander leaves
- 2.5 cups of water
Method:
For Masale :
- heat a tsp of oil in a pan on medium low heat
- add red chilies, keep stirring and add
- Methi seeds, curry leaves, and the dals, fry it until the dals turn golden brown. Turn off the heat and let it cool
For making gojju:
- heat the oil in a pan on medium heat, once hot add mustard seeds, after it pops add dals.
- Once the dals turn golden brown add hing, broken red chilies, turmeric powder, curry leaves and washed grapes,
- Mix it and cover it. Let it cook
- Grind the masala along with coconut without adding water first, then add water and grind it to a coarse consistency.
- Add the masala to the grapes,
- add some water to the mixer jar and add that as well
- Mix it well, add tamarind extract, add salt, jaggery mix it well
- Add enough water to get gojju consistency ,
- let it boil on medium low heat for 6 to 8 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and add chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve the gojju with rice, rotti, idli, chapathi….