തക്കാളി അരച്ച് കലക്കി ചോറ് ഊണുവാൻ ഈ ഒരു കറി മാത്രം മതി || TOMATO CURRY || THAKKALI CURRY

Tomato – 1 ½ large
Dried red chilies – 5
Garlic – 2 big or as per taste
Shallots – 3 OR onion – a small piece
Grated coconut – one handful
Ginger – one medium piece
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Whole peppercorns – 11nos
Coconut oil
Mustard seeds
Fenugreek seeds
Curry leaves
Turmeric powder – two pinches

To make this delicious and easy tomato curry, first heat some coconut oil in a pan and add five dried red chilies and wait until the chilies start to heat up.
Next, add two chopped cloves of garlic along with a small piece of chopped onion.
Mix well and sauté until the onions turn soft.

Once the onion starts to turn soft, add chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes turn soft.
If your tomatoes are ripe, you can leave the pain open and keep mixing until the tomatoes turn soft and mushy.. Else, close it with a lid and cook until the tomatoes are soft and mushy.

Once the tomato looks cooked, prepare the masala paste by grinding a handful of grated coconut, a medium piece of ginger, a teaspoon of cumin seeds, a few peppercorns and very little water.. grind all these ingredients into a fine paste by adding only very little water.

Once this paste is ready, add the prepared tomato mixture into the mixer grinder along with five heaped tablespoons of thick curd and salt to taste..
Next, blend again to mix everything into a thick and evenly consistent mixture.

Once this mixture is ready, heat a pan and add some coconut oil into it.
Next, add a few mustard seeds and let it pop, then add a few fenugreek seeds, a few dried red chilies, curry leaves, and then add to pinches of turmeric powder and sauté until the turmeric powder loses its raw smell..

Next, add some water needed for the gravy, season it with some salt to taste and bring the water to a rolling boil.

After the water has boil, turn off the flame and then add the ground tomato paste and mix well to get the desired consistency of the curry..