Tuesday

Instant Tomato Pickle



This is a pickle  with tomato,Its easy and can be stored for 15 days too.


Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 1 kg
Garlic (cloves from two medium sized garlic)
Salt to taste
Oil-4tbsp
Red Chilli powder-2tbsp
Turmeric Powder-1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli-1
A pinch of hing(Asafoetida)

Preperation

Firstly peel off all the  garlic cloves and keep them aside.
Cut all the tomatoes  into four halves.
Heat  oil in a pan or kadai.Add turmeric powder  and then add all the chopped tomatoes.Let the tomatoes cook on high flame for 5- 8 minutes.Keep stirring so that it does not stick to the base of the pan and get burnt.(it takes a while for  the tomatoes to be cooked completely).
Cook on medium flame till the  tomatoes get cooked completely and all the juice thickens up .
It should be of thick consistency for long lasting.
Once it is thick and you can see tomatoes are done completely add salt mix well and then turn off the flame.
Let it cool down  and then add red chilli powder to it.

For the Tempering or Tadka

Heat oil in a pan.Add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds.once the seeds  splutter add one red chilli,hing and then add the peeled garlic cloves.Fry them for a while untill they start changing colour.Turn off the flame and now  add this tadka into the tomato pickle.
The pickle is  ready and the salt or chilli powder can be adjusted according to individuals taste.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

delicioso

Rama said...

Thanku so much!!!:)

Me!!