Friday, August 14, 2009

Quick tomato pickle

Quick tomato pickle:

Ingredients:
1. Ripe tomatoes- 10
2. oil, mustard seeds, methi powder, salt
3. red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Preparation time:
10 mins

preparation:
Dice the tomatoes into cubes. Heat a deep bottomed pan and pour soem oil. When it is hot, put the mustard seeds. When they splutter put the diced tomatoes, and salt . Cover with a lid. let it cook on medium flame.
If you have methi powder that is good, otehrwise, pan fry some methi seeds (without oil). cool it and grind it into a fine powder.
When the tomatoes are cooked very soft add, the methi powder and red chilli powder. Turn off the stove.

This tomato 'Bisi Uppinkai"(in Kannada, meaning hot pickle) goes well with rice, idlis as well as chappathis. My kids love it with chappathi.
When refreigerated , can stay for a week.

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