Ingredients

• Tamarind - 100 g
• Seedless dates - 100 g
• Jaggery - 150 g
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
• Fennel (saunf) powder - 1/2 tsp
• Cumins powder - 1 tsp
• Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp
• Black salt - 1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste

How to Make Sonth

• Soak tamarind in 2 cups of water and extract the juice.
• Chop the dates and grind to a smooth paste, using some of the tamarind extract.
• Add the dates to the remaining extract.
• Heat the extract in a pan and add jaggery. Cook stirring till jaggery is dissolved.
• Increase the heat and boil till the extract thickens.
• Remove from fire and stir in the other ingredients.
• Serve this sweet-sour chutney with samosas, kachori or pakodas.