Posted on 31 July 2009 by Sasirekha
Ingredients:
- Riped Tomato – 300 gms
- Garlic Cloves – 15
- salt – as per taste
- Red Chilli – 6 to 10 ( as per spicy of your requirement)
- Gingelly Oil – 2 Table spoon
(No need of frying mustard and urad dal , and it can be stored in fridge for two days)
Method:
- Fry well red chilli in little oil.
- Cut tomatoes into pieces, peel skin of garlic and put both into mixie.
- Add red chilli, salt along with it and grind nicely into a thick paste.No need to add water.
- Then add rest of oil in kadai and heat it on flame.
- Then add the paste to it and stir in intervals at medium flame, till all water in paste is absorbed and it becomes thick and non sticky on the kadai.
- Then stop the flame and allow it to cool and serve with hot chappathi, dosai, idli, or with curd rice.
- If u want the sour taste little more, u can add a pinch of tamarind with it while grinding.(Add little more oil, to make the gravy non sticky and cook well, if required).
Posted on 28 July 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Fresh Spinach – 1 bag (finely chopped)
- Onion – 1 (small, finely chopped)
- Garlic cloves – 4 (crushed)
- Tomato sauce – 1 can
- Salt – as required
- Pepper – as required
- Virgin Olive Oil – 4 tsp
- Parsley – for garnishing
Method:
- Heat olive oil in a pan. Fry the garlic cloves for 2 mins. Add onion and fry until they are soft.
- Add the chopped spinach, cover the pan with lid and cook for 10mins.
- Add the tomato sauce and cook for another 10mins.
- Add the salt and pepper as required.
Posted on 02 July 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- 10 ripe tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
- 1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 cup Burgundy wine
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 stalks celery
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
Method:
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Have ready a large bowl of iced water. Plunge whole tomatoes in boiling water until skin starts to peel, 1 minute.
- Remove with slotted spoon and place in ice bath. Let rest until cool enough to handle, then remove peel and squeeze out seeds.
- Chop 8 tomatoes and puree in blender or food processor. Chop remaining two tomatoes and set aside.
- In a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat, cook onion, bell pepper, carrot and garlic in oil and butter until onion starts to soften, 5 minutes. Pour in pureed tomatoes.
- Stir in chopped tomato, basil, Italian seasoning and wine. Place bay leaf and whole celery stalks in pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 2 hours.
- Stir in tomato paste and simmer an additional 2 hours.
- Discard bay leaf and celery and serve
Posted on 26 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Medium Onion.
- 4 Roma Tomatoes
- 4 red chillies.
- 3 spoons of light Coconut Milk.
- Salt
- Curry Leaves.
- Green Onions to garnish.
Seasoning:
- Mustard, Broken Urad Dhal, Curry Leaves.
Method:
- Chop the onions and tomatoes in to long slices.
- In a kadai, add 2 spoons of oil and when hot, add mustard, broken urad dhal, red chillies and curry leaves.
- Saute for a few seconds and add the chopped onions.
- Saute again till the onions are pink and then add the tomatoes.
- Sprinkle sufficient salt and mix till the water is all reduced and the tomatoes are cooked well.
- Grind all the sauteed ingredients along with 3 spoons of coconut milk to a smooth paste.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro and chopped spring onions for a burst of colour and flavour.
- Serve with Dosa.
Posted on 18 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingrediants:
- 6 tomatoes
- 1 cup beet leaves
- 1 slice lemon
Method:
- Cut the tomatoes into sections and chop up the beet leaves.
- Juice everything in the order given in the ingredient list.
Posted on 18 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Onion – 2 sliced
- Tomato – 2 chopped
- Ginger – 1 inch piece
- Garlic – 2 or 3 flakes
- Red chillies – 2
- Green chillies – 2
- Tamarind paste – 1 tbsp
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – 6 tsp
Seasoning:
- Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
- Urad dal – ½ tsp
- Curry leaves – 6
Method:
- Take a pan and heat with 4 tsp of oil.
- Add all the ingredients (except seasoning ingredients) and sauté for few mins.
- Sauté till the tomatoes become soft and onion turns into light brown colour.
- Remove from heat and allow it to cool for some time.
- Then add the sautéed ingredients in a mixer grinder.
- Grind to a fine paste or your desired consistency without adding any water.
- Take another pan add 2 tsp of oil and heat.
- Add mustard seeds and urad dal.When they start to crackle add curry leaves.
- Add this to the chutney and mix well and adjust salt.Onion tomato chutney is ready.