Peanut Spice Blend - Simple and Tasty

Peanuts are used for varieties of chutneys. I generally use peanuts in any vegetable chutney I make such as tomato chutney, capsicum chutney, brinjal chutney and also in coconut chutney. Today, I made a special blend of peanut powder which is also called chutney but specifically it is spice blend of peanut powder. 

Ingredients:

Peanuts - 1 cup
Ghee or salted butter - 2 table spoon

Cumin seeds - 3/4 teaspoon
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Chilli powder - 3/4 teaspoon

Procedure:

Roast peanuts in a frying pan under the low flame. It takes about 5 to 10 minutes for the peanuts to get roasted properly....It is the time when the warm, pleasant aroma of peanuts is around the stove. Take out the pan and keep in a separate place. Allow it to cool down to the room temperature

There is no need to remove the skin of the peanut, but some do take it off. Either way it tastes great. 

When they are cool enough take a grinder and grind in small installments. Do not grind very fine. Let it be little coarse otherwise the oil in the mixture comes out and makes it a paste. 

Now put a pan under low flame and heat some ghee or butter in it. Add cumin seeds, when crackles add chilli powder in the ghee. 

Add the powdered peanut and salt in it. Mix it properly and take out in a plate. When cold store in an air tight container. This blend can be stored for about a week.