Ingredients:

5 vine ripe tomatoes

5 tbsp chilli powder

1 lemon size tamarind

1/4 tsp turmeric

3 cloves of garlic crushed

3/4 cup oil

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp cumin powder

1/2 tsp fenugreek powder

1 tsp mustard seeds

2 red chillies broken

Pinch of Asofetida

Method:

Wash and cut the tomatoes into big pieces.

Heat  1/4 cup oil in pan.

Add tomatoes and cook in high heat. 

In first 5 minutes tomatoes become soft and juicy, cook another 5 minutes to make thick the tomato pulp.

Now add chilli powder, tamarind, turmeric powder,  cumin & fenugreek  powder and salt.

Cook for another 10 minutes in medium flame. 

Switch off the stove and let it cool.

Grind this cooked tomato gravy.

Then heat 1/2 cup oil in pan and add mustard seeds, red chillies.

After they splutter, add ground paste and cook for 8-10 mintes until oil leaves the sides. 

Now yummy thokku is ready for you.

You can have it with white rice, curd rice, idli, dosa.

This goes to lakshmi’s SWC Meals on wheels.