TOMATO SAAR (WITH COCONUT MILK)

TOMATO SAAR (WITH COCONUT MILK)

INGREDIENTS:-

Tomatoes - 6 nos

Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

Besan / chickpea flour -1 tbsp

Ginger grated - 1/4 tsp

Sugar - 1/2 tbsp

Green chillies cut in pieces - 2 nos

Salt - To taste

Curry leaves (optional) - 1 sprig

Ghee / clarified butter - 1 tbsp

Jeera / cumin seeds - 1/2 - tsp

Heeng / asafoetida - 1/8 tsp

METHOD:-

1. Wash the tomatoes. Make × cuts on each of them.

2. Bring 1 1/2 cup water to boil and drop the tomatoes in it. Allow the tomatoes to cook a little till the skin can peel off easily and the tomatoes are cooked but still firm.

3. Peel them, remove the eye and skin. Put in a mixer jar and blend into a smooth puree.

4. To this add the coconut milk, besan and the remaining water in which the tomatoes were cooked. Blend all till incorporated well. 

5. Put it through a strainer or a sieve and strain out the juice seperaring out the tomato seeds.

6. Put it back on flame and bring it to a boil. Add in 1/2 cup water if required. Also add in the ginger and green chillies along with salt and sugar.

7. Seperately heat ghee, add in jeera and heeng. Pour this tadka over the boiling saar and mix it in. 

8. You can also add curry leaves in the tadka. 

9. Serve this saar along with boiled rice or moong dal khichdi.

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