Tomato Chutney/ Sauce

My daughter likes sauce very much, but as you all know the sauce which we buy might really have many chemicals and other ingredients which may cause harm in long run. So I thought why not we prepare a tomato chutney which taste just like sauce at home, so here is one. I learn't this from my mother-in-law and made bit change, my daughter now stopped sauce completely and she likes this chutney very much Today am sharing the same here.

Ingredients Needed:

1. 10-15 Tomatoes [You can have more as you need, but the preparation is for 10-15 tomatoes]
2. 1 Teaspoon of Jeera and Mustard
3. 1/4 Teaspoon of Methi seeds
4. Small quantity of tamarind, jaggery and red chilly powder
5. Salt as per taste.

Method of Preparation

First, put the whole tomatoes in a frying pan and fry it for about 2 to 3 minutes, then make a paste of the fried tomatoes in a mixer. Now put the paste in a frying pan and keep it for boiling in a low flame.

Now, on another frying pan pour Mustard seeds, Jeera, Methi and Tamarind [little bit] and fry them all for about 2 to 3 minutes, while you fry them it would make small sounds then take off from the stove, then make a powder of this in a mixer.

Now pour the powder as did above in the pan of boiling tomatoes paste and pour bit of salt as per taste, bit of jaggery and then boil it till the paste becomes dry.

While it boils keep stirring occasionally, the whole mixture will turn to bit reddish and the whole water content gets absorbed, once it appears to be dry switch off the flame and allow it to cool.

Once it cools the Tomato Chutney or Sauce is ready to serve with anything like Roti, Bread just like jam. If needed then while serving portion of the chutney could be mixed wit bit water to make it semi liquid.

The prepared chutney can be stored in refrigerator for about 15 to 20 days.

Kids will love this, you can replace their usual sauce with home made tomato chutney or sauce.

 

Evening Snack Tomato Omelet

When it comes to evening tea time many times we feel like to have a small snack but again what needs to cooked this is a million dollar question we all have. Today I am going to show you a quick recipe which is not only tasty but yummy too, Tomato omelet which is easy to prepare and tasty, try this and kids really love, not only kids everyone will like this.

Ingredients Needed:

1. 250 GM of Maida Flour
2. 250 GMs of Chopped Tomato
3. 1 Spoon Salt
4. 4 to 5 Green Chilly
5. Pure Cow Ghee

 Method of Preparation:

Get the maida flour cleaned, mix the flour with salt and pour water and mix well to make a dosa batter, keep the mixture for about an hour. Now mix the chopped tomato pieces, green chilly and mix it well.

Keep the dosa tava on the flame once get heated pour a spoon ful of ghee on tava and pour a table spoon of batter and spread the batter from the back of spoon.

While it bakes pour another tea spoon full of ghee through out and slowly flip it towards back and keep it for some time. You will feel the taste and color turns to be semi brown, take out from the tava and serve hot with chtuney or curds.

Rava/ Suji Sheera

Most of the Indians specially south Indian know about Satyanarayana Pooja, we use to make super tasty prasadam for the same, this is prepared with very few ingredients and believe it or not those who don't eat sweets will like this. This typically called as "Sheera" in North Karnataka while it is called "Kesari Bhath" in Bangalore.

A week back I just had prepared the same and offered to Goddess and then when I gave small bit to my daughter, usually my daughter don't like sweets but on that day she liked and asked for more, even the next day she asked me to give that prasad. I am sharing here the recipe to prepare the same, it is full with nutrition specially to children as it contain Ghee, Banana, Dry Grapes, Cashewnuts and Almond.

So, let us start then. Note the following items which you need to prepare this.

1. 1 Cup of Sugar
2. One Full Banana
3. 1 Cup of Rava [Bombay Rava]
4. 1 Cup of Milk
5. 1 Cup of Pure Ghee
6. Handful pieces of Cashew nuts, Dry Grapes and Almond

How to Prepare:

1. Cut banana, cashew nuts, dry grapes and almond into smaller pieces. Take a copper bottom kadai or any heavy bottom kadai and keep it on heat till it gets a bit heat, pour cup of ghee into the kadai now once ghee gets melted pour pieces of banana, cashew nuts, grapes and almond and fry them till it changes the color to light brown. 
2. Once it turns to light brown, pour the coup of Rava into it and fry the same till it turns to brown and just keep stirring and you will feel a flavour.
3. Pour sugar and keep stirring, sugar starts melting and you will feel the flavor and then close the lid for some time, keep stirring in between. 
4. After say about 3-4 minutes open the lid and pour milk and keep stirring. Note: If you do not stir then it would turn to lump so keep stirring and when it absorbs the milk then switch off heating and mix the whole ingredient well.
5. The tasty and healthy sheera or prasadam is ready to eat.