My Experiments with Food - II : Day#22/30

Making Lunch when Mom is away.
Decided to make stuffed tomatoes, a la Hostel 11 dinner special. ;-)

Here's how I made it. I really don't follow measurements and hence am not giving them here as well. As my Mom says, "अंदाजे घाल" (put as per what you think is right)

The pre-preparation :

1. Chop off a little disc from the top of all tomatoes, keep them aside.
2. With a spoon, scoop out the seeds and pulp and keep that aside too.

For the stuffing :
1. Mash together boiled potatoes and green peas, finely chopped onions. Add a little ginger garlic paste, salt, chilli powder, haldi, garam masala, jeera + coriander powder as per taste.

For the gravy :
1. Grind together some cashews, dry red chillies, coriander leaves, the tomato pulp scooped out earlier, salt, green chillies (if you want it more spicy), a teeny tiny amount of sugar, jeera, ginger, some black pepper, lavang, a tiny dalchini stick. Add some water, as per liking.

Actual preparation :
1. Stuff the mixture in the tomatoes and cover it with the "lid" we had cut off earlier and keep aside.
1. Heat some oil in a kadhai, add the gravy and stir till it becomes a little reddish brown.
You could add a little water and adjust the spices if you think it's needed...
2. Slowly add the stuffed tomatoes to the gravy, taking care the "lids" don't open and spill over.
3. Cover the kadhai and allow them to cook for some time, no need to "stir occasionally" ;-) :-P
4. Garnish with chopped coriander and a little cream if you wish to...
5. Done!
6. //TODO : Test this on Rohit  ;-)

Stuffed Tomatoes

PS : Apparently, it wasn't bad, Rohit survived :-P
PPS : The leftovers actually ended up tasting much better the next day  ;-)