Tomato Pickle/Thakkali Achar

Ingredients and method

Tomato - 1/2 kg

Garlic paste - 1 tsp

Ginger paste - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilly powder - 2 tsp

Fennel seeds(Perinjeerakam) powder - 1/2 tsp

Green chillies - 3 nos

Curry leaves - A few

Coconut oil - 3 tbsp

Mustard seeds - A little

Vinegar - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/4 tsp

1)Clean and cut tomatoes into fine pieces.

2)Mix with salt and keep it for half an hour.

3)Grind together chillies and curry leaves.

4)Heat coconut oil in a pan or a kadai.

5)Splutter mustard seeds.

6)Add ginger paste, garlic paste, fennel seeds powder and green chillies-curry leaves paste.

7)Stir for 2 mins.

8)Add chilly powder and turmeric powder. Stir well.

9)Add tomato.

10)Allow it to cook.

11)Add salt, if reqd.

12)Add vinegar.

13)Cook, until this becomes thick and gets a consistency of that of jam.:- Serve with dosas or can be used as a side dish for rice.

Recipe submitted to RP for Jhiva for tomatoes