Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:

Tomato – 5  nos

Onion – 1(medium size)

Red chilli – 5 nos

Oil -2 tsp

Mustard-1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder – a pinch

Salt – to taste

Method:

1. Chop the tomato and onion and fry it in a pan by adding little oil along with red chillies.

2. Allow it to cool for sometime.

3. Grind it to become fine paste.

4. Now heat a tawa, add little oil, mustard, grounded paste, salt and turmeric.

5. Allow it to boil for sometime.

6. Spicy tomato chutney is ready.

Ingredients:

Jeera – 1 cup

Black pepper – 1 cup

Red chilli – 1 ½ cup

Corriander seeds- 2cup

Curry leaves – 1 cup

Toor dhal -1/2 cup

Asafeotida – 1 tsp

Method:

1. Take a tawa and roast each one of the ingredients separately.

2. Allow the roasted ingredients to dry in a plate.

3. Add little oil and fry the red chillies separetely.

4. If you take asafoetida powder you need not fry it. It can be added while making the rasam powder.

5. After few mins, when it comes to room temperature, add all the things together to the mixie jar along with asafoetida and make it into a fine powder.

6. Your home made rasam powder is ready. Add few tsps of this powder while making rasam.

Ingredients:

channa dhal – 1 cup

corriander seeds – 1 1/2 cup

Red chilli – 1 cup

asafoetida – 1 tsp

fenugreek – 1 tsp

Black pepper – 1 tsp

curry leaves – 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Take a tawa and roast each one of the ingredients separately.

2. Allow the roasted ingredients to dry in a plate.

3. Add little oil and fry the red chillies separetely.

4. If you take asafoetida powder you need not fry it. It can be added while making the sambar powder.

5. After few mins, when it comes to room temperature, add all the things together to the mixie jar along with asafoetida and make it into a fine powder.

6. Sweet smelling sambar podi is ready. You can use this podi when you want to make instant sambar in few mins.

Note: This powder can be stored in an air tight container.

Ingredients:

Tomato – 5
mustard – 1/2 tsp
red chilli powder – 2-3 tsp
Oil – 3 tsp
salt – to taste
turmeric powder – a pinch

Method:

1. Cut the tomatoes into big pieces and grind them.
2. Heat the tawa and add oil and mustard seeds.
3. Add the grinded tomato to the tawa and stir it in low flame.
4. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt to it.
5. Cook it till the raw flavour fades and oil suspends over the thickening paste.

Tomato Thokku

6. Serves as a good sidedish with idli, dosai, adai, etc.. and one can even mix it with rice and enjoy the lovely taste..

Ingredients:

Tamarind- the size of one big lemon.
Gingely oil- 5 tbsp.
mustard-1/2 tsp.
urud dhal(ulutham paruppu)- 1 tsp.
channa dhal(kadala paruppu)- 1 tsp.
curry leaves- few.
groundnut- as desired.
salt- to taste.
fenugreek- 1/2 tsp.
corriander seeds-1/2 tsp.
red chillies- 3-5.

Method:

1.Roast fenugreek, corriander seeds and red chillies in 1tsp of oil and grind it in a mixer to get a powder.
2. Add the remaining oil in the tawa and splatter mustard in it.
3. Add the dhal varieties, curry leaves, salt, groundnuts and roast it till the dhal turns to golden
brown colour.
4. Remove the seeds of the tamarind and extract the juice from it by adding some water and add it to the tawa.
5. Boil it till the raw flavour of the tamarind fades and till it becomes thick like a paste.
8. Now add the prepared(fenugreek, corriander and chilly) powder to the paste.
9. Add one cup of boiled rice to the above mixture and garnish it with corriander leaves and serve hot.