Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tomato thokku. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Tomato thokku is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Tomato thokku is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
In this video we will see how to make thakkali thokku recipe in tamil. Thakkali thokku / Tomato thokku is an excellent side dish for chapathi or rice. Tomato thokku is one of the delicious pickle that we can make at home.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tomato thokku using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tomato thokku:
- Take 1 Kg Tomato
- Prepare as needed Tamarind gooseberry size
- Make ready 1 tbsp Red Chilli Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp Grated Jaggery
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Fenugreek Powder
- Get to taste Salt
Tomato thokku is a great sidedish for idli, dosa, chapathi and even for rice. It goes well with pretty much everything, next to podi I love such. Tomato thokku is my favourite side dish for idli,dosa. Usually my mom makes thokku with onions.
Steps to make Tomato thokku:
- Wash and pat dry the tomatoes and chop it to roughly small pieces. I used to make tomato thokku with the skin. When cooked the tomato skins will be visible. If you prefer to have a very nice paste of tomato thokku, then we should remove the tomato skin. To remove the tomato skin, add tomatoes to boiling water and cover it with a lid and then after 5 minutes, take out the tomatoes and peel the skin. In this recipe below, i cooked the tomato with skin.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. When the mustards seeds starts to sputter, add curry leaves and saute it in low flame for half a minute.
- Add chopped tomatoes to the pan along with turmeric powder, salt and red chilli powder and keep in medium flame to cook the tomatoes.
- While the tomatoes start to cook, we get lots of juice from tomatoes and we need to keep the flame in medium and allow the full juice to get evaporated and the tomatoes to be cooked completely and becomes mushy like thokku. Add thick extract of tamarind and stir the mixture occasionally so that the thokku doesn’t get stuck to the bottom of the pan and also to make sure it is not burnt. Cook the thokku till the oil starts oozing out from the mixture and there is absolutely no juice. Usually it ta
- Finally add grated jaggery and fenugreek powder(Dry roast the fenugreek seeds and grind it to a nice powder in a mixer) and let the thokku cook for another couple of more minutes and remove from flame.
My MIL makes it like tomato pickle adding roasted methi seeds powder. See great recipes for Tomato thokku, Onion tomato thokku too! Recipe for thakkali thokku - tomato thokku. Perfect recipe that stays fresh for long travels. There are different kinds of relish used in everyday Tamil cuisine and tomato thokku is one of my favorites.
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