Tamatar Ka Bharta
Serves 1
Directions
- 1Place the tomatoes directly on the flame.
- 2Apply a little mustard oil and roast them well until the skin becomes completely black and the tomatoes become soft.
- 3Once you have roasted the tomatoes, cover them in a bowl so that they become soft and you can easily remove the skin.
- 4Remove the skin, cut them and discard the eyes of the tomatoes.
- 5Roughly chop the tomatoes.
- 6Heat a pan and add some green chillies, a lot of garlic and coriander stems.
- 7Dry roast all these things until they get a little colour.
- 8Once you have dry roasted them, remove the top of the chillies and add them to a mixer grinding jar and make a coarse paste just like we make the Thecha in Maharashtra.
- 9Take some mustard oil in a pan, once the oil is smoked, add cumin seeds and mustard seeds to it and let it crackle.
- 10Add curry leaves, the paste that we made earlier, and chopped onions.
- 11Cook this tempering well until it gets a beautiful aroma of mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
- 12Add a little turmeric and Kashmiri red chilli powder for the kick and the color.
- 13Mix it well and add mashed tomatoes, salt to taste, a little black salt and a little sugar to balance the flavours.
- 14Mix everything and cook it for 1-2 minutes.
- 15Add some garam masala and a lot of fresh chopped coriander.
Ingredients
- 6 tomatoes
- mustard oil
- green chilies
- garlic
- coriander stems
- cumin seeds
- mustard seeds
- curry leaves
- chopped onions
- turmeric
- Kashmiri red chilli powder
- salt
- black salt
- sugar
- garam masala
- fresh chopped coriander
Equipment
tongsbowlpanmixer grinderknife
Tips
- you can eat this with bhakri or rice