This Green Capsicum Chutney is fresh, tangy, and slightly spicy with a subtle natural sweetness. Made with green bell peppers, garlic, chili, and lime, it blends into a vibrant chutney in minutes. This makes a creamy chutney that pairs with almost any savory dish.
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🌿 What is capsicum chutney?
Capsicum chutney is a popular Indian condiment made by blending bell peppers with spices, aromatics, and acid. It's typically served alongside dishes like dosa, idli, or flatbreads, adding a punch of flavor to meals.
Green capsicum (green bell pepper) gives the chutney a more savory, slightly bitter edge compared to sweeter red or yellow peppers.
Most traditional capsicum chutney recipes sauté the peppers with lentils, spices, and onions before blending.
This version keeps everything raw and bright:
- fresher flavor
- faster to make
- lighter texture
Get the classic balance-spicy, tangy, slightly sweet-but in a simpler way.
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👩🏼🌾 Ingredients
Below, I share ingredient notes from both a nutrition expert's and trained chef's perspective.
- Green capsicum: The base of the chutney. It brings a slightly bitter, earthy flavor that becomes balanced when combined with acid and sweetness.
- Dates and raisins: Add natural sweetness to balance the bitterness of green capsicum-this is key, especially since green peppers are less sweet than ripe ones.
- Garlic: Adds sharpness and depth, grounding the fresh flavors.
- Green chili: Brings heat and brightness.
- Lime: Balances everything and lifts the chutney.
- Sunflower seeds (optional): Add creaminess and round out the flavor.
See the printable recipe card below for quantities.
🫑 Substitutions
This recipe is versatile and easy to adapt. Below are some simple ingredient substitutions.
- Green bell pepper - Use red, yellow, or orange bell peppers for different flavored capsicum chutney.
- Sunflower seeds - Add sunflower seeds for creaminess and to balance the spice.
- Spicy - To increase spiciness, add more green chilis when blending, or use fewer chilis to reduce the spice.
- Kala namak - This Indian Black Salt is rich in umami with a flavor profile of boiled egg yolks. It adds an earthy, and intensely savory note while boosting the overall flavor of the capsicum chutney, or just about any dish. Substitute with salt as needed.
📝 How to Make Green Capsicum Chutney
The complete recipe with exact amounts is below. These additional tips will help you get the best results.
- Transfer the dates and raisins to a small bowl. Add boiled water to cover. Soak for about 15 minutes, or until softened. Drain and reserve the soaking water. Remove the pits from the dates.
- Transfer the soaked dates and raisins and the remaining ingredients with 1 tablespoon of the date-soaking water. Blend until smooth. For a creamier chutney, add soaked sunflower seeds and blend, adding more date-soaking water as needed.
✔️ Storage Tips
These simple steps help preserve freshness and flavor:
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
- Freeze in small portions for longer storage-up to 3 months.
🥄 More Ways to Use Green Capsicum Chutney
Try it with my Lentil Balls. These are packed with plant-based protein and made healthy, flavorful ingredients.
Serve green chutney with the ultimate high-protein, plant-based Lentil Burgers.
Try pairing it these protein-packed Vegan Patties for a flavor boost.
Or use it as a dipping sauce for my gluten-free Vegan Air Fryer Falafel.
🙋🏽♀️ Recipe FAQ
Some common alternative names for capsicum include bell pepper, sweet pepper, pepper, paprika (in powdered form), pimiento, chili pepper (though this term is often used to refer to the spicier varieties), and green pepper (typically refers to unripe bell peppers).
Capsicums (bell peppers) start green, before turning yellow, orange, and then red. Each stage of ripeness holds different flavors and uses in the kitchen. Green capsicums are the most bitter of the four colors with yellow being a close second. In the intermediate stages of ripening, capsicums are yellow or orange and are significantly sweeter than the green version. This chutney recipe can be made with all colors of capsicum.
This easy and versatile chutney goes well with almost any savory dish. Try mixing it into stews, soups, rice and beans, or chillis. Or add some to sandwiches, tacos, or burritos.
Traditionally it is served with idli, dosa, paratha, pongal, and Indian snacks.
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Green Capsicum Chutney Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 Medjool dates
- 5 raisins
- 2 medium green bell peppers seeds and ribs removed, roughly chopped
- 1 to 2 small green chilis stalks removed
- 1 medium lime juice
- ¼ teaspoon kala namak or salt
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds plus more as desired (optional)
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Instructions
- Soak the dates and raisins: Transfer the dates and raisins to a small bowl. Add boiled water cover, about ¾ cup. Soak for about 15 minutes, or until softened. Drain and reserve the soaking water. Remove the pits from the dates.
- Transfer the soaked dates and raisins, green bell pepper, garlic, green chilis, lime juice, and kala namak to a blender. Add 1 tablespoon of the date-soaking water. Blend until smooth.
- Optional for a creamier chutney: Add the sunflower seeds and blend, adding more date-soaking water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the desired consistency.
Notes
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- Soak the sunflower seeds for a smoother chutney.
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- Storage: Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 10 days. Or freeze them in an ice cube tray for up to three months.
Nutrition
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Primla Goddard says
This green capsicum chutney is so delicious with vegan falafel.
Only 10 minutes to make but adds so much flavor.
Nisha Melvani, RDN says
Awww so glad you tried it. It's a game changing dressing! Thank you.
Neena Chandiramani says
This is an excellent recipe, very detailed.
Nisha Melvani, RDN says
Thank you. So glad you enjoyed it.