Tomato Pickle

Ingredients:

500gms Tomatoes

1 cup Oil

1 (lemon size) Tamarind

1 tbp Methi seeds

2 tbp Mustard seeds

½  cup red chilly pwd

1 tbp Sugar

¼ th tbp Turmeric Pwd

1 tbp Salt

7-10 pods of garlic

Method:

• In a small pan dry roast Methi seeds first and then add Mustard seeds. Turn off the heat when they start to splatter. Cool it and make powder of it.
• Chop tomatoes and coarsely grind them.
• Add oil in a pan and start cooking the tomatoes. Add tamarind juice and cook till almost all the water evaporates.  
• Add salt, sugar, chilly pwd, turmeric pwd and mustard-methi pwd. Mix it well.
• In a small pan add 2 tbp of oil and fry the garlic pods. Add it to the above Pickle.

Tip:

• Fry garlic until it turns brown in a very low flame.
• If you don’t like to use Garlic, you can replace it with Asafetida.