Tasty tomato pickle

This is a very delicious and tasty pickle, suitable to enjoy with purotta, paratha, parantha, puri, chappati, chappathi, idli / idly, dosai / dosa, curd rice, biriyani / briyani.
It is called ‘Suvaiyana thakkali oorukai’ in Tamil.

Ingredients:

• Tomato: 1 Kg
• Garlic: 150 gm
• Turmeric powder: As required
• Chili powder: As required
• Fenugreek powder (Methi): 1 tbsp
• Asafetida (Hing): a little
• Gingelly oil (sesame oil / edible oil / til ka tel): for sauté
• Mustard (Sarson / Rai): for sauté
• Salt: As required
  

Method of preparation:

• Wash tomatoes and dry them.
• Remove skin from garlic.
• Grind them together in a mixer.
• Add salt and mix.
• Pour this on a wide plate and keep under hot direct sunlight so as to get it dry like jam.
• Heat and stir this in a sauce pan (Kadhai).
• After some time add turmeric powder, chili powder, fenugreek powder (methi powder) and asafetida (hing).
• Stir and turn the stove off.
• Use another sauce pan for sauté and mix well.

To view this recipe both in English and in Tamil, Visit

http://dailycookingtips.blogspot.com/2009/08/tasty-tomato-pickle.html

Thengai Mangai Pattani Sundal

It is a tasty evening snack, also called chundal, rich in protein.

Ingredients:

• Dry green peas (pattani): 2 cups
• Raw mango (mangai / kachcha aam): 1
• Coriander seeds( malli / dhania) : 4 tsp
• Coconut (thengai / nariyal): 1/4 cup
• Mustard (kadugu / rai / sarson): 1/4 tsp
• Red chili (vara milakai / lal mirchi): 8
• Asafetida (Perungayam / Hing): one pinch
• Husked black gram (Ulundham paruppu / Urad dal): 1 tsp
• Oil: 1 tsp
• Salt: 1 tsp

Method:

• Soak peas overnight in four cups of water, pressure cook in medium flame for two whistles, strain the excess water and keep it aside.
• Grind coriander seeds, coconut, and red chilies.
• Fry mustard, black gram and asafetida in oil and add the ground masala.
• Keep frying until a pleasant flavor comes out.
• Now add peas and salt.
• Cook for a few minutes.
• Remove from flame.
• Garnish with chopped mangoes.
• Serve hot or cold.
• Suitable to serve during festivals like Navarathri and Ayudha puja / Saraswathi puja. During non season of mangoes, mango powder can be used effectively.