"A - Few Minutes Recipe": This is an easy side dish for your idlys, dosas, upmas and etc. Since it is easy to prepare, I've dedicated it to my bachelor friends which they can find it useful and easy.. But it is a common dish for all. Easy to prepare and tasty to have it..!!
I learnt the base of this from one of my relative [a very sweet granny/paati--my cousin's paati]! I then added few more ingredients to make it exotic!
I learnt the base of this from one of my relative [a very sweet granny/paati--my cousin's paati]! I then added few more ingredients to make it exotic!
Ingredients:
1. Tomato: 2 or 3 medium sized; finely chopped.
2. Oil: to temper
3. Kadugu/ Mustard seeds: few to temper
4. Curry leaves: few to temper
5. Salt: to taste
6. Hing/ perungayam: 1/4 tspn
7. Sambar Powder: 1/2 tspn - 1 tspn
8. Red chilly powder: 1/4 tspn
9. Turmeric powder: 1/4 tspn
10. Dhaniya podi/ Coriander powder: 1/4 tspn [optional]
Method:
1. Heat a kadai, add oil, once heated, add mustard seeds/ kadugu and wait until it splutters. Add curry leaves.
2. Add the chopped tomatoes and saute well, add turmeric powder, sambar powder, perungayam/hing, red chilly powder, dhaniya powder[optional], and saute well to a semi-thokku consistency, oil will start to leave the kadai.
3. At this stage, add 3-4 tumblers of water, totally 500 ml of water. Add required salt. Let it boil in a medium flame. Close the kadai with a lid for 3-5 mins while it is boiling. Totally let it cook for 6-8 minutes. By this time it should reach the kuzhambu consistency.
4. If u prepare it too watery, add a 1/2 tspn of rice flour/ arisi maavu or corn flour to 5 tspns of water, mix well and add it to the dish and cook for few mins to get the consistency.
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