Tomato Chutney 👨‍🍳🍅 The Perfect Partner For Samosas 🥟🤌

Haha, so true, we don't even technically have a kitchen, or even running water for that matter. It rains here so much that our barrels are always full, and the river is easy enough for showers, so we haven't prioritized it yet. We just started growing a couple curry trees because nobody in the village has any. Fresh leaves are impossible to replace, such a unique flavor.

Our cabin is not Airbnb ready yet, but ready enough for friends and family, and it actually does have runnign water, unlike our house.

There is no international school available for us, so I'm stuck taking the kids to/from public school 6 days a week instead of the much more convenient 5-day schedule of private schools. Because of this I haven't even traveled yet, we are so remote and 1 day is barely enough to reach Pursat in the tuk-tuk. If you dirtbike or want to go slow on Khmer bikes, it's possible to reach us by traveling north from Koh Kong.

If you want to come the easy standard way, you must reach Pursat first and then head west on the highway til you reach us. You two are always welcome any time, no need to give us a headsup. Come swim, explore, eat delicious food, and chillax with the best views (biased opinion) in Cambodia. Seriously though, we are on top of the mountain, only three houses upstream from us, water even cleaner than Tatai here.

Otherwise when the school year ends I'm going exploring for a month and will visit Kampot. Crazy to be stranded abroad for almost 3 years, arrive in Cambodia, spend a few days in PP, then move to the middle of nowhere without visiting old friends first. I still haven't seen how Cambodia has changed in the last 3-4 years, haven't had the chance to travel yet 😁.

I agree, normally we eat tamarind-date chutney with our samosas, but I personally like this tomato chutney a little more. I also love mint chutney, but our plants aren't big enough yet to give us enough leaves for a chutney.

Thank you for your culinary compliment 👨‍🍳.

This chutney is very versatile, but with fried foods is most tasty I think. The fried lentils give it a rich smoky flavor, a nice addition. Thank you for your kind compliment, and what is your favorite chutney by the way?

I totally agree, you must have a good sauce of some kind with samosa, if no chutney, at least some pickle or podi to compliment them. The lentils provide a nice smoky touch to this chutney, but not a necessary ingredient. Thank you for stopping by with these kind words.

Funny you say that, I have a lot of close friends in Ducktown-Murphy-Blue Ridge area, the TN-NC-GA tri-state border. When we were scouting land and passed through here, that's exactly what I said to myself, "this feels like east Tennessee." It is a familiar feeling for me to live here even though this is a tropical place far from home.

Good to hear, I hope it works well for you. I prefer mint chutney with potato samosas, but this tomato chutney is my favorite with onion/poha/cabbage samosas. Thank you for the samosa salutation 🥟🖖

Thank you, ketchup is too sweet for me, so I prefer to make something myself. This sauce is much tastier too, even with french fries it is very nice. My other favorite tomato sauce is balado, my wife is a very good balado chef 👩‍🍳

Thank you, very tasty with fried things, but my family enjoys it with rice also.

Glad you enjoyed it, I think we still have some samosa dough left 🤔😉......

Even though we are a vegan family, I like to make very heavy food or else I do never feel full. Cambodians laugh when I tell them I fry mustard seeds because the seeds here are only used to grow mustard greens 😁. Thanks for the compliment, one day when the Trat-Thmor Da border becomes an international crossing, it will be much easier for you taste our food some day 😉.

It really is worth it, a nice condiment, but depending on what country you live in, mustard seeds and curry leaves may be hard to source.

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This is a household favorite, I've even made JA style dumplings and dipped them in this sauce before, nice combo 🙏

Fresh tomatoes are so much better, especially soft and juicy ones. The tomatoes here are always rock hard and 50% of em' green, I guess that is the only to transport them very roughly without damage. It takes some magic to make the tomatoes here edible, but we'll have our by this time next year when we've built up some good soil.

Thanks for not minding the bad lighting and non photogenic kitchen. I almost gave up on posting recipes because of this situation and also because I never got decent post payouts for the effort. This tomato chutney post has reinvigorated me to share some recipes a little more often.

Haha, well you know Indiana and India are pretty close, at least alphabetically. Every time I meet a Cambodian they want to know which part of the USA I'm from, Washington, New York, California, or Texas? These are the only 4 areas of the USA that exist in Cambodians' view, and when I saw Indiana, they hear India, and it takes a long explanation.

As a last resort I fall back to Kentucky, which they also don't know, but Cambodians know KFC very well. I lived and grew up a few minutes from the Kentucky border, and Louisville was always our big city to visit for shopping, etc. For this reason I claim Kentucky and KFC, and Cambodians accept that "I am from the land of KFC."

Certain samosas are good with specific sauces, and I am partial to mint or tamarind chutney with potato samosas, but this tomato chutney with onion/cabbage/poha stuffing is my new favorite.

Hope you enjoy, are mustard seeds and curry leaves easy to find in the Philippines? In Cambodia mustard seeds are only for growing mustard greens, and sometimes we have to buy our mustard seeds at a farming shop.

Haha, yes, I have worked in restaurants since I was a teenager, even managed several in the USA and owned my own restaurant in Cambodia. I am very good with South Asian cuisine, and my wife is the Southeast Asian cook, so we compliment each other well. She even knows many Indonesian dishes, her urap and gado-gado are very delicious.

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I know your country is full of ethnic Indians, so I imagine the Indian cuisine there is pretty tasty and diverse. Is the Indian food there adapted to local tastes? In Suriname there were many ethnic Indians, but the Indian food was more simple and less spicy than traditional Indian food.

Thanks for the curation and support my friend.

Coconut chutney is good, but you're right, green chilies aren't the right thing for it, has to be those delicious dried red chilies. I really miss my printer, it used to be so easy to make things like a menu, etc. Back when I had my own school I even had a paper cutter and laminating machine.

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Tastes change with time, my now-teenage daughter doesn't car for Indian food anymore, but she loved my cooking before she became a young lady. Monkey-B though, she is an Indian food addict with no signs of kicking the habit, and it's a pleasure to cook for her because she's so enthusiastic. My wife is the middle road, she likes Indian food, but doesn't think it's amazing 😁. Thanks for stopping by and showing some chutney respect 🤟