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“Simple Onion Curry Recipe which has simple spices and masalas. This goes well with rice or roti. Delicious curry which makes a perfect side.”

If you are running low on tomatoes, then this recipes comes handy. It calls for onions and very little tomatoes. You can skip tomatoes and make this with only onions alone. This curry has no spice powders except turmeric powder alone.

Adding coconut + fennel seeds paste in this curry adds a little creaminess and thickness to the curry, This curry taste well with roti or phulkas.

The flavour for this curry comes from

Onions
Ginger Garlic Pase
Fennel seeds

If you have leftover phulka or roti,     make this seyal phulka

Few tips for you

1)Saute the onions till soft, this adds nice sweetness to your curry.
2)If you don’t have tomatoes, skip tomatoes. Instead add little lemon juice in the end.
3)You can add very little roasted gram dal or cashews or any nuts along with coconut when grinding. This adds thickness to the curry.
4)This curry can be served with chapati, roti, paratha or phulka.
5)You can serve with appam or idiyappam.

Variations:

Addition of carrots, beans or any vegetables.
Grind coconut with roasted gram dal or little cashews for richness.
Add whole spices in oil before adding onions.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Onion Curry for Chapati

Simple Onion Curry which has minimum masala and fresh flavours. This pairs beautiful with rice or roti.

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Course: Main

Cuisine: Indian

Calories: 200kcal

Aarthi

Author: Aarthi

Ingredients

Onion - 3 large sliced
Green Chillies - 4 to 5
Oil - 3 tblsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblsp
Tomato - 2 chopped finely
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Coconut - 1/2 cup grated
Fennel seeds / Saunf / Sombu - 1 tsp

Instructions

Grind coconut and fennel seeds to a smooth paste.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add in onions and saute till it gets soft.
Add in chillies and turmeric powder along with salt. Saute them for few mins.
Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
Add tomatoes and cook that till mushy.
Add in coconut masala and mix well. Simmer for 2 mins.
Serve with roti or rice.

Notes

1)Saute the onions till soft, this adds nice sweetness to your curry.
2)If you don't have tomatoes, skip tomatoes. Instead add little lemon juice in the end.
3)You can add very little roasted gram dal or cashews or any nuts along with coconut when grinding. This adds thickness to the curry.
4)This curry can be served with chapati, roti, paratha or phulka.
5)You can serve with appam or idiyappam.