Tomato Saaru

Ingredients:

1 large Tomato

Small Piece of Ginger

1 Green Chilly

Pinch of Turmeric

3/4 cup cooked yellow lentils/Thogaribele/Toor dal

1-2 tsp Lemon Juice

3-4 Coriander Leaves

Salt to taste

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds

Pinch of Asafotida powder/Hingu

1 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Chop tomato into longer thin pieces as shown in the picture below. Smash ginger and cut the chilly into 2 pieces.

Add chopped tomato, ginger, chilly, salt, turmeric powder, water in a vessel and cook it well. Once tomato is cooked properly, add cooked yellow lentils and bring it to boil. (You can cook yellow lentils(3-4 whistles in a cooker) and keep it in fridge, it won't be spoilt for 10 days.) Add lemon juice and stir it. Keep the saaru in low flame for about 2-3 mins and stir it properly. Add chopped Coriander leaves and stir it.

Add mustard seeds and oil in a pan. Once it starts spluttering, add asafotida powder, keep it for few seconds and then add it to Saaru. Mix well before serving. It goes well with ghee, rice and papad.

Puliyogare - Using MTR Puliyogare Mix

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tsp MTR Puliyogare Mix

1 cup cooked White Rice

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds

1/4 tsp Blackgram seeds

1/4 tsp Bengalgram seeds

4-5 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Add mustard seeds, bengalgram seeds, blackgarm seeds and oil in a thick bottomed vessel. Once it turns golden in color, add MTR Puliyogare mix and fry it for about 1 min in medium flame. Add cooked rice and stir well for 2-3 mins and serve hot.