Thakkali Kai - Green tomato pitla

 Hi friends,

Welcome to another blog of mine. Today I have come with a traditional,well known recipe but with a different vegetable.

It's the time of pitla. In every south Indian home, pitlas are made . We have heard a lot about brinjal pitla ,pagarkkai - bitter gourd pitla etc. But there is one vegetable which my mom likes to have in pitla. That is green tomato.

Today it's green tomato pitla.

Ingredients

Thakkali kai - 8 small ones ( green tomato)

Salt 

Tamarind - 1 small lemon sized soaked 

Tur dal - 1/2 cup 

To roast and grind:-

Coriander seeds -11/2 tbsp 

Channa dal -1 tbsp 

Urad dal -3/4 tbsp 

Coconut -1/4 coconut 

Chillies -8

To temper:-

Mustard seeds -1 tsp 

Urad dal - 1 tsp 

Curry leaves

Hing

In a pot , add chopped green tomato pieces with salt, turmeric powder and tamarind water and let it boil. Let the tomatoes cook a little. Some of the green tomatoes are extremely sour. In that case please reduce the quantity of tamarind.

In a kadai, roast all the ingredients given under the roast and grind,to a golden colour. After cooling down, grind that into a smooth paste.

In a pressure cooker, cook the tur dal with a pinch of turmeric powder.

Now all preparations are done.

In the boiling gravy with tomato, add the ground paste and cook it for 5 minutes.

Once there is no raw smell, add the cooked and mashed tur dal to the gravy. 

Cook for 5 minutes. Adjust the consistency by adding water, if needed. Adjust salt if needed.

Once everything comes together,switch the gravy off.

In the kadai,add oil , Mustard seeds,urad dal, hing and curry leaves. After everything is fried,add to the gravy.

Tasty green tomato pitla is ready.

It can be used as a side dish for more kuzhambu or can be used like a sambar. We like to use this like a sambar and mix it with rice and eat. It goes really well with all kinds of vegetable roast or even appalam.

Please try and let me know after cooking this.