Lemon-Lime Cilantro Mint Chutney

One of our favorite aspects of Indian cuisine is the exciting use of dips and sauces. They can add heat, sour, pungent, salty, and sweet flavors to your meal. We appreciate having at least two chutneys with our Indian cuisine meals for an intense flavor contrast. Indian chutneys are used to provide bursts of contrasting flavors and colors with your meal. A traditional Indian feast aspires to 56 distinct flavors!  

What is chutney? Chutney is a vegan sauce made with fruits, vegetables, vinegar, herbs, and spices. We might call them a sauce or condiment here in the USA. 

We planted mint and cilantro in our wee garden this year so we could stay stocked with this fabulous samosa sauce. Adding fresh ginger and green chili brings up the heat while the cumin and asafoetida hold the lower notes. You can alter the mint to cilantro ratio to meet your taste. Be sure to pack the fresh herbs for accurate measurements in this chutney.

This green coriander chutney with a kick of citrus and mint pairs wonderfully with lentil curries like our Three Lentil Dal, appetizers like our delicious Sunrise Vegetable Curry Samosas, and Savory Indian Crepes. 

Our other favorite chutneys are:  Spicy Tomato Achar and Tamarind Chutney .

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Lemon-Lime Cilantro Mint Chutney Recipe

Prep

• 15 minutes prep
• Serves 10
• Suggested equipment: blender (we love our Vitamix), measuring cups, measuring spoons.

Ingredients

• 1 bunch of cilantro, leaves only, about ½ cup packed
• ½ cup packed mint leaves
• 2 Tbsp chopped jalapeño or other hot green pepper
• 1 tsp chopped fresh ginger root
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp asafoetida (Hing)
• 3 Tbsp fresh-squeezed citrus juice (half lemon and half lime)
• 1 tsp oil (we use olive oil)
• 1 tsp sugar (we use coconut sugar or jaggery)

Instructions

Place all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Serve.

Chef's Notes 

You can go another flavor direction with the addition of a bit of fresh garlic too. 

We use a Vitamix High-Speed Blender for this. It's powerful enough to blend chutneys, sauces, our BEST Vegan Pesto, our Vegan Chocolate Pudding, grains, and soaked nuts and beans until they're smooth. After trying several department store blenders that didn't do the job well and stopped working after a year or two, we went to a Vitamix. Ten years and going strong! Order yours here: Vitamix.

This recipe pairs amazingly with our Sunrise Vegetable Curry Samosas and our Savory Vegan Crepes!  

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Stacy and Markus live an adventurous vegan lifestyle and write articles about their experiences cooking global vegan cuisine, creating businesses, raising vegan kids, and traveling through more than 65 countries. They earned degrees in molecular biology and acupuncture, consulted over decades for healthcare companies and individuals, created businesses in Asian medicine, eco-tourism, cultural immersion, and taught yoga in myriad venues.

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Vegan Lemon-Lime Cilantro Mint Chutney Vegan Grocery List: 

• cilantro
• mint leaves
• fresh jalapeño or other hot green pepper
• fresh ginger root
• lemon
• lime
• cumin seeds
• asafoetida (Hing) *Order Asafoetida here
• salt
• olive oil
• sugar (We use coconut sugar in most of our cooking. Order coconut sugar here. You can also use Jaggery, unrefined pure cane sugar with a depth of flavor. It's is commonly used in Indian and Asian foods. Order Jaggery here. )

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Lemon-Lime Cilantro Mint Chutney Recipe Nutritional Analysis

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