Tomato Thokku

Tomato Thokku

Ingredients:

1. Tomatoes - 1 kilo
2. Tamarind - Big gooseberry size
3. Methi seeds - 1tsp
4. Dry chillies - 7-8 nos
5. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
6. Ginger (grated) - 1tsp
7. Asafoetida - 1tsp
8. Curry leaves - little
9. Salt & Oil

How to prepare:

Pressure cook the tomatoes along with tamarind. When cooled down, grind it to a smooth paste. Keep it aside. Add a little oil in a kadai and add dry chillies and methi seeds. When its fried, take it out and grind it to a fine paste. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds, when it splutters add the grated ginger and fry well. Add the dry chillies and methi seeds paste and saute well. Add the grinded tomato and mix well. Add the asafoedia and salt and some curry leaves. Make the stove on sim because as it thickens, it will spit. Cook well until it thickens and the oil separates and leaves the sides. Store in a sir tight container. It goes very well with idli, dosa and even with rice.

Pictorial:

 Pressure cook the tomatoes & tamarind                     Grind it to a smooth paste

Add oil and roast the methi seeds & dry chillies. Grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil and add mustard seeds.

 

Add the ginger paste                                                   Add the dry chilly - methi paste

Add the grinded tomato paste                                     Add asafoetida

 Add curry leaves                                                    When it becomes a thick paste, switch off the stove

 

Tomato Thokku will go very well with idli, dosa, chapathi and even you can mix with the rice and have it