Tomato - Onion Curry

Courtesy – my mom.

Ingredients

1.  Tomatoes – 2
2.  Onion – 1 big
3.  Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
4.  Red Chilli – 2
5.  Curry Leaves – 2 stalks
6.  Green Chillies – 3
7.  Black Pepper powder (Coarse) – 1 teaspoon
8.  Asafoetida Powder – 1 teaspoon
9. Garam Masala – ½ teaspoon
10. Cooking Oil – 1 ½ tablespoon
11. Salt – to taste
12. Water

The Method

Heat the oil in a pan. When it is hot enough, put the mustard seeds into the oil. When it bursts, add the curry leaves and red chillies. While putting the red chillies, cut the red chillies into two with hand. Add the green chillies, and then stir for about a minute in a low flame. Add the cut onions into this. Keep stirring till the onion starts to change its colour. Now, add the powders – Asafoetida, Garam Masala and Black Pepper in that order and stir well. When the onions get the golden brown colour, add the cut tomatoes. Add the salt and stir. After mixing thoroughly, add roughly 2 cups of water to it and mix properly. You can add more water if you wish it to have gravy. Bring it to boil, while stirring occasionally. Let it boil on simmer for about 3 minutes. Here it is – Tomato-Onion Curry. You can have it with roti or rice. If you wish to make it dry, you can also reduce the amount of water and use this as a side dish for rice. Enjoy cooking.

The First One

Well, now that I have moved to a new house, alone in a 1BHK, I can use my free time for R&D in my favourite place – My Cooking Lab a.k.a The Kitchen, and make myself the lab rats for testing the results!!

As a bachelor, it is a great difficulty to make food with the right taste and as we get from our mom. So, in this humble endeavour of mine, I shall embark on a mission to enlighten the numerous bachelors out there who are struggling to keep their stomachs under control from the shitty mess and hotel foods.

Almost all the recipes that I will be sharing in this space are told to me by my mom over the phone. What I do is just try to make it simpler and easy for us, the bachelors, to understand and test it upon our roommates.

Before continuing further, let me tell you something. This is a warning that there is no guarantee that whatever I have written in the recipe is good cooking practices. There may be some bad practice as well as good ones. I myself like the taste of black pepper a lot. So, you may find the amount of pepper more. If you find so, please reduce it, which is good for your tongue as well as all the organs in your food canal.

Well, for the first time, being first time, I am going to give the recipe of a dish which my mom told me how to make. I have tried and succeeded in making it, but with a tinge of salt more. So, here is it.

Potato Stew

Ingredients

1. Boiled Potato – 2 or 3 Medium Sized
2.  Ginger (chopped) – 1 tablespoon
3. Green Chilly (cut in small pieces) – ½ teaspoon
4. Curry Leaves – 1 stalk
5. Coconut Milk – 500 ml
6. Salt – to taste
7. Cooking Oil – 2 tablespoon

How to make

Heat the oil in a pan. Put the ginger into the hot oil and stir till the colour of the ginger changes. Add the curry leaves and green chilli to this and stir well. Smash the boiled potato and put it into the pan. Mix this well and add the coconut milk. Add salt to taste and stir the mixture well. Allow this to boil in simmer for 5 minutes. The potato stew is ready. It is best when you have it with Appam or Idiyappam. Recipes for those will be followed sometime later.

Hope you guys understand and do send in the feedbacks after trying this on yourself. Happy cooking.