Tomato Thokku

Ingredients:

Ripe Tomatoes                      – 2 pound

Red Chili powder                      – 3tbsp

Gingili oil                              - ¼ cup

Tamarind paste                         – 1 tsp

Fenugreek seed                       – 1stp

Sugar                                    – 2tsp

For Seasoning:

Mustard seed                        – 1 tsp

Red chili                                – 2 no

Hing                                      – ¼ tsp

Method:

• Chop tomatoes into very small pieces. Fry it in a little oil for few more minutes. Cover and let it boil, until becomes a thick paste.
• Dry roast fenugreek seed and powder it.
• Heat the oil in a pan, fry mustard, red chillies, Hing, chili powder and fenugreek powder.
• Add this to the boiling tomato paste.   Reduce the stove heat.
• Put salt, tamarind paste and sugar and allow it to cook till oil oozes out well.
• Store it in a cleaned glass bottle and keep it in the refrigerator.