North Indian
Tamarind Date Chutney (Imli Khajur)
Tamarind Date Chutney (Imli Khajur) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup seedless tamarind
- 12 pitted dates
- 1/4 cup jaggery
- 1 tsp roasted cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp dry ginger powder
- 1/2 tsp black salt
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 cups water
How to cook it
- Simmer the tamarind and dates in the water until the dates are very soft, about 10 minutes.
- Cool a little, then blend smooth and strain out any fibers and skins.
- Return the puree to the pan with the jaggery, roasted cumin, dry ginger, black salt, and salt, and simmer until it thickens to a pourable sauce.
- Cool fully, then serve a spoonful in a small bowl alongside the meal; it keeps in the fridge for a week.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tamarind Date Chutney (Imli Khajur), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Tamarind Date Chutney (Imli Khajur) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Tamarind Date Chutney (Imli Khajur) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tamarind, dates, and jaggery.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.