Tomato pickel

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Red Chilli powder
• 200 gms Tamarind

To dry in Sun:

• 1 kg Good Ripen Tomatoes
• 1 cup levelled Salt
• 1 tsp turmeric powder

To grind:

• 1 cup Mustard seeds
• 5 tsp Methi seeds

For Tadka:

• 2 tbsp Mustard seeds
• 8-10 broken red chillies
• 1 tsp asafoedita
• 250 ml Sesame Oil

Method:

1. Wash the tomatoes and then wipe it and pat dry for some time. Chop the tomatoes into eight pieces, mix it with salt and cover the vessel with clinge wrap and keep it for two days continuously(atleast for one day).
2. Squeeze the water from the Tomato pieces completely.Soak tamarind in the water that would have come out from the tomatoes. Keep the tamarind mixture and Tomato pieces under sunlight for two days until it dries completely.
3. On the second day grind tomato pieces with the tamarind mixture(the one kept in sun) to a coarse mixture. (Use the whipper mode in the mixie)
4. Slightly roast methi seeds and cool the seeds.Grind Mustard seeds(raw) and Methi seeds to a smooth powder.
5. Mix the ground tomato mixture with the ground methi-mustard powder,red chilli powder.Taste the mixture at this point and adjust salt according to taste.
6. Heat oil,crackle mustard seeds,add broken red chillies and hing and fry for a minute.Cool the oil completely and mix in the tomato mixture and store it in Air-tight containers/Glass jars.
7. Serve the Tomato pickle with hot rice.