[Curiosities] Have this simple immunity-boosting chutney with your meals (recipe inside)

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Apart from being a tasty and po[CENSORED]r side dish, chutneys are also known to be good for one’s health. Since there are different varieties of chutneys prepared across the country, it is a good idea to include as many as possible in your diet to ensure wholesome intake of nutrients. Like they say, you are what you eat, and chutneys are known to be a powerhouse of nutrients.

Here’s a delicious tomato garlic chutney that nutritionist Lovneet Batra recently spoke about.

Ingredients

1 – Tomato
4 – Garlic cloves
1 – Green chilly
½ tsp – Mustard oil
Pinch of salt
Pinch of sugar

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Method

*Lightly roast tomato, garlic and chilly together.
*Add mustard oil, salt and sugar and mash them together in a paste.

Here’s why you should have tomato garlic chutney

Tomatoes provide vitamins and glutathione, and help keep life-threatening diseases like cancer at bay.

Garlic, which is a prebiotic, anti-fungal, and antibacterial, helps keep the heart healthy and boost immunity.