Tomato Kut
It’s a tomato sauce delight and an excellent accompaniment for fried rice or palao. It’s a quick and easy recipe but becomes a special side dish.
Author: Admin
Cuisine: Indian
Recipe type: Side Dish
Serves: 4
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Ingredients
- 1 lb tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 6 garlic cloves(seasoning + puree)
- 1 T black pepper corns
- 7 dry red peppers (5 for spice+ 2 seasoninig)
- 3 T oil
- 1 t salt to taste
- 1⁄2 t mustard seeds
- 10 curry leaves
- 1 T cilantro or corriander leaves chopped
- 2 T cumin seeds( 1 t for seasoning+1 t for spice)
Instructions
- This recipe involves blanching tomatoes. The best way to blanche a tomato is poke a fork into a tomato and hold it over low flame on the stove. This helps to gently remove the skin of the tomatoes. Now take these blanched tomatoes and grind them to a puree consistency.
- In a pan, roast the sliced onion with or without oil till its translucent and light brown. Remove and grind it along with garlic cloves to paste.
- Separately dry roast the cumin seeds, black pepper and red peppers. Grind them together to a fine powder and set side.
- In a pan sauté the onion garlic paste with some oil till it emanates a cooked aroma. Next add the pureed tomato and let cook. You may cover with a splatter screen while cooking this step. When the paste starts to get cooked, add the salt and dry roasted spice powder and stir and cook further.
- In a small seasoning pan add some oil and warm it, when oil is warm add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, a garlic clove and couple of red chilies. Add this seasoning to the cooked puree mix.
- Lastly make four slits in each boiled egg and add to the gravy. Garnish with some chopped cilantro or parsley.
Notes
You can substitute canned tomato puree in this recipe, if you like convenience over the freshness of tomatoes.
Seasoning could be done in the large pan and the tomato and onion puree cooked in the same seasoned oil too. This lessens the usage of multiple pots and pans. But if convenience is not your first priority, it’s best tasty when the seasoning is done in the end, since the flavors of the season remain fresh and flavorful.
Serving Size
Serving size: 4