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(240)Onion Tomato Gravy cubes.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Onions.
  • ½ kg Tomatoes.
  • 10-15 Garlic pods.
  • ½ cup Cashews.
  • 1 tbsp. Poppy seeds.
  • ½ cup chopped Coriander leaves.
  • ¼ cup Mint leaves.
  • ¼ cup tender Curry leaves.
  • Whole spices 4 cloves , 6 black peppers, 2 Green cardamom, 2 black cardamom, 6 dry red boriya chilli,
  • Salt
  • 1 ½ tsp . Asafoetida powder.
  • 1 ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 6 tbsp. Oil.

Method

  1. Peel, wash and chop Onions into 8 to 10 pieces and keep aside.
  2. Wash and chop tomatoes into 8-10 pieces.
  3. Heat oil in a nonstick sauce pan.
  4. Add Asafoetida powder
  5. Add whole spices and quickly give 2-3 stirs.
  6. Add Curry leaves, coriander leaves and mint leaves and saute for 1 minute.
  7. Now add cashews and saute till it turns light golden then add poppy seeds and garlic pods.Again saute for one minute and add Onions. Saute till translucent on medium flame.
  8. Add tomatoes at this time and stir 2-3 times and close the lid, cook on a slow flame till tomatoes become tender. Keep aside to cool down.
  9. Make a smooth paste and fill the moulds and refrigerate for 8- 10 hours.
  10. Unmould gravy cubes and store in the freezer for further use.
  11. Defrost the cubes whenever you want to use them. Measurement of the cube is one cube equal to one onion and ½ tomato.

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(238)Tomato Puree Cubes

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ kg Tomatoes ( preferably organic tomatoes) .
  • 5 tsp. Salt.
  • 5 tsp. Sugar.

Method

  1. Wash and wipe all tomatoes.
  2. Cut each tomato into 8 pieces .
  3. Cook tomatoes on a fast flame in a nonstick sauce pan and cover with a lid after adding salt and sugar.
  4. Reduce to half and stir occasionally.
  5. When you get your required consistency turn off the flame and keep aside to cool down.
  6. Make a smooth paste of tomatoes. Strain the paste and fill the moulds with this puree and refrigerate for 8-10 hours.
  7. Unmould puree cubes and store in the freezer
  8. Defrost puree cubes whenever you want to use tomatoes in your recipe.
  9. You can measure the number of tomatoes with pieces of your tomato’s puree cubes as per the size of your cubes. Here 1 cube is equal to 1 medium size tomato.