Tomato Saar
Serves: 2 persons
Ingredients:
- 3 tomatoes chopped roughly
- ½ inch ginger cut into pieces
- 1 green chilli chopped
- 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
- 1 cup water
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
For tadka/seasoning:
- ½ teaspoon oil
- ½ teaspoon ghee/butter
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Pinch of asafoetida
- 5-6 curry leaves
Method:
- Add tomatoes, grated coconut, chili, ginger and water in a pressure cooker. Cook everything together for 3-4 whistles. Let the pressure go down completely.
- Open the pressure cooker lid and keep it open until it is completely cool down.
- Add the cooled mixture in a mixer/blender. Grind it properly. Strain the grinded tomato mixture into a pan through a strainer.
- Add salt and sugar and start boiling it.
- Meanwhile let's prepare tadka/seasoning. Get another pan and oil and ghee/butter. Add cumin seeds. As soon as they start spluttering, add curry leaves, and asafoetida. Switch off the flame.
- Pour this tadka on boiling tomato saar. Immediately add red chilli powder to it. Mix everything. Turn the flame to simmer.
- Let it cook for another 5 minutes. Add chopped cilantro. Turn off the flame.
- Serve hot with Vegetable Pulao or Masale Bhat or Plain white rice.