I know this is so tyring for me, doing last minute entries, well, I am always like that I think, I told you in my last post that I have been in her kitchen looking for recipes matching with my Ingredients in my pantry, fridge, freezer, Garden etc., yes, your guess is absolutely right!, I have been growing some veggies in my garden you must have seen lataji mentioning so in my comment section I had few plants growing, actually I was not really happy about it, as the weather keeps changing the best I could get was the pepper, chillies, swiss chard and Tomatoes, that's right, I will be posting a recipe today with Home grown Tomatoes, Tried and tested from Aparna's kitchen.
Here is a click of my Tomatoes, which I took , not a good one though.
I had to try out something of my own, but T & T was hosted, as I was searching through the recipes I saw these recipes..
So, I had a bunch of Green Tomatoes, few of them were turning red too..., just today I plucked a few red ones!
Don't they look lovely, coming to the recipe..
GREEN TOMATO PICKLE
Does it look nice?, Mmmm.., it was too gorgeous I should say, especially my son loved it so much, he wants to make it with remaining Green tomatoes!, It was a great hit in the family, I made only so much as I used some for the Kurma, so it lasted only 2 days, because kept eating with anything and everything! thanks Aparna for this lovely recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
6 TO 7 Green Tomatoes
3 tbsp of sesame seeds
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp of Fenugreek powder (I used Schwartz fenugreek powder)
1/2 tsp of Mustard powder (I used Colman's mustard powder)
2 tsp of Chilli powder
Salt as required (sorry I forgot to measure it 🙂 )
1/4 tsp of Jaggery
1Sprig of Curry leaves
METHOD:
Wash and cut the tomatoes in half and again into half and again into halves (1/4), To this add the Chilli powder, Jaggery and salt mix well and leave it aside.
Take a wok, heat oil add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add the curry leaves and do not make it burn, add the marinated Tomatoes immediately, stir well, allow the tomatoes to cook for about 5 minutes, they should cook without losing the skin or becoming mushy. Then add the fenugreek powder, mustard powder and leave it for an other 2 minute or so, and then take off the heat.
After it cools down you can bottle it up and Aparna says you have to refrigerate it and stays good up to one week.
I did not bottle them up or put them in the fridge as I made only so much which you can see in the cup and it stayed in my counter top.
GREEN TOMATO KHORMA
INGREDIENTS:
7 t 8 Green Tomatoes
3/4 th Cup Yogurt
2 Green Chillies
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
4 to 5 tbsp of oil
1 sprig curry leaves
4 to 5 sprigs of Coriander leaves
1 Sprig of curry leaves
2 bay leaves
TO GRIND
1 Big Onion
1/2 '' Ginger
3 to 4 Garlic pods
1/2 tbsp Poppy seeds
4 tbsp of freshly Grated coconut
2 cloves
1 Cardamom
1 Green chilli
METHOD:
Cut the Tomatoes into 4 pieces and keep aside. Take all the Ingredients from the Grind and make it into a paste. Take a wok heat oil add Green chillies, Turmeric powder and Bay leaves fry for a minute then add the ground paste and fry until all the raw smells disappear and oil oozes out, then add the chopped tomatoes and fry for few minutes then add a cup of water.
Meanwhile when it is cooking take the yogurt, add the Garam masala chopped coriander leaves, sugar, mix well, and add this to the cooked Tomatoes, do not boil after yogurt is added otherwise it will curdle and spoil the curry. you can leave it in the wok for a few minutes stirring continuously so that it doesn't curdle. Take off the heat and serve hot with chappatis
or with Rice like my husband had.
well, anyways, it was a great dish, we all loved it, thanks Aparna for the lovely dishes...
Hope valli will accept this last one entry I still had an other two, I think I will just post it later on for some other events.
I am sending this of to zlamushka's Tried and tested event hosted by Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles and this month is hosted by valli of cooking4allseasons.
I am also sending this to Nupur's , it's been a long time, I entered her event, I love her blog I especially chose these dishes keeping Nupur's Iron chef edition event in mind, I have missed so many of her events, even though I cooked from other blogs but never could post them :(, and I really didn't want to miss this event and when I saw these recipes, I thought this was perfect, Hope Nupur accepts this and likes it, I am truthful here Nupur, I really did this for your event, I would like to participate in these kind of events as I have always told that I always look for new recipes and try and cook something new every day from other blogs.
Siva Krishna
Tomatoes are rich in Vitamins C, A & K. I love Andhra style pickles. The making process has shown here looks delicious. Thank you for sharing a homemade Tomato / Thakkali pickle recipe, will try this weekend.
Jayasri Ravi
Thank you Sir!
Srivalli
wow these look so good Jayasri..thanks for entries!
Smita Srivastava
Looks wonderful ... I had tried red tomato pickle before but the green one is a lovely innovation indeed !!
DEESHA
i loved the recipe for the korma .. never tried anything with green tomatoes so far..looks tasty
<br><br><br><br><br>Dr.Sameena Prathap
Hi Jayasri,
Yummy pickle...Looks colouful..
Dr.Sameena@
http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com
Tanvi
This looks heavenly good..hopped on to your blog via nupur's comments.
Just one question: arent green tomatoes tooo sour? I am actuallu scared of using them
LG
pickle chennagi kantha ide rii, i have green tomatoes too, nodbeku enu madodu anta
lata raja
Jaisri, the tomatoes look simply awesome, i wonder what is there to complain and you have brought out a tangy excellent pickled version from Aparna. I don't get green tomatoes here as I would in India. Last I had them was from my home grown garden in Bahrain where the Maalis of the compound had a free reign over that small patch of land near my kitchen.
The korma with the masala therein sounds a super duper hit!
Priya
Tongue ticling pickle and droolworthy kurma..nothing will beat home grown veggies..
Aparna
Wow, you have tried out a lot of my recipes and I'm impressed. 🙂
Those tomatoes look good. Wish I could grow some.
Happy you liked the pickle and khorma. The pickle is a fave with my daughter and she does not like tomatoes. 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
Lovely recipe Jayasri! I loved the korma very much! And Love the new look of your blog!