TOMATO YENDU MIRCHI PACHADI...

a mouth watering recipe for all pachadi lovers... tomatoes flavored with roasted red chili's... yummy, spicy and tasty...

TIME TAKEN: 30 MINS.

INGREDIENTS:

TOMATOES (RIPPED)	4 MEDIUM
RED CHILI’S	7 – 8
CORIANDER SEEDS	½ TSP
MUSTARD SEEDS	½ TSP
CUMIN SEEDS	½ TSP
FENUGREEK (METHI SEEDS)	½ TSP.
ASAFOETIDA	A PINCH
CURRY LEAVES	4 – 5
GARLIC CLOVES	5 – 6
SALT	TO TASTE

METHOD:

Ø  Heat oil in a kadai/ pan, add chopped tomatoes to it and cook till tomatoes are smashed and oil floats. Off the stove, add tamarind, and allow it cool.

  Ø  Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai, fry red chilli’s till crispy, add mustard, methi, coriander and cumin seeds, roast them and keep them aside and allow it to cool.

  Ø Add salt and grind the roasted red chilli’s, into fine powder. Now add the cooked tomatoes and grind it into fine paste. Add garlic cloves and grind them roughly on speed 1 for a second.

  Ø   Heat oil in a thick bottom vessel, temper 1 red chili, mustard seeds, Bengal gram, black gram, curry leaves and hing powder. Add the grounded tomato paste to the tempering, stir it and off the gas.

Serve it with hot rice and ghee…