TOMATO TIFFIN SAMBHAR without Toor Dal | SIDE DISH FOR IDLY, DOSA, CHAPPATHI & UPMA

This is one of the favourites during my college days. In our hostel, they serve this side dish for Broken Wheat Upma on Thursdays as Morning Breakfast. For night dinner, they serve us Tomato Rice with Kovaikai fry along with white rice, rasam & buttermilk. It did really tasted awesome. I never skip these varieties.

TOMATO TIFFIN SAMBHAR

INGREDIENTS:-

Medium-sized tomatoes, finely chopped - 3 nos.

Pizza Sauce - 1 tbsp

Salt - as required

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Roasted Gram dal - 1 tbsp

Black pepper - 8 nos.

Water - as required

Cooking Oil/ Gingelly Oil - 1 tbsp

FOR TAMPERING:-

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 leaflet

Finely chopped Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

METHOD:-

Heat Oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter. Then add cumin seeds, curry leaves,  asafoetida & half of the coriander leaves. Fry it.

Add tomatoes and required salt. Cover with lid and cook for 5 minutes in sim to medium flame. The water content in tomatoes oozes. 

Add pizza sauce, turmeric powder & mix well. Cover with lid and cook till the oil separates from the mixutre.

Add water to it ( I added 1.25 cups of water). Allow it to boil for 5 minutes. 

In a mixer jar, add black pepper and roasted gram dal. Make a fine powder. Add 1/4 cup of water and grind. Add this paste to Sambhar and allow it to boil till it becomes a mild thick consistency.

Tasty Tiffin sambhar without cooked dal  is ready... Garnish with the remaining coriander leaves.

Tastes better with Idly, Chappathi, Dosa, Broken Wheat Upma.

See also for
Broken Wheat Upma / Godhumai Rava Upma
Siru Thaniya Dosai / Millets Dosa

TOMATO GOTSU..... without Dal

GOTSU....is famous in southern parts of Tamilnadu. I tried  this GOTSU without using dal, but using pressure cooker. No Grinding is required.

TOMATO GOTSU

INGREDIENTS:-

Finely chopped Tomato - 2 nos.
Cubed Potato - 2 nos.
Finely Chopped Big Onion (Indian) - 2
Green Chillies - 2
Ginger, chopped - 1/2 inch
Salt - to taste
Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp


For Seasoning:-
Oil - 4 tsp (teaspoon)
Urid Dal - 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 leaflet
Coriander leaves - for garnishing - 1 tablespoon.


METHOD:-

Cut the green chillies in 1/2 inch size. Peel the potato skin and cut into  cubes.

Heat  3 teaspoon of oil  in a pressure cooker ( any cooker 2 ltr or 3 ltr).  Add green chillies and ginger, saute for 20 seconds. Add chopped Onions and saute till the onions turn transculent.  Add cubed potatoes and saute for a minute.

Add chopped tomato, salt and red chilly powder and saute for 2 minutes. Add 100 ml of water.

Cover with lid. Cook for 1 whitle in high flame and 15 minutes in low flame. Switch off the burner. Allow the pressure to release. Once the pressure is released, using  karandi/spatula, mash the cooked ingredients.

In a kadai, heat 1 tsp of oil, add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add urid dal and let it change into golden colour. Add curry leaves. Switch off the flame and add asafoetida.  Pour this seasoning into the cooker and mix well.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves, mix well.

Simple and Tasty Tomato Gotsu is ready.

Instead of Potato, Chow chow, Knool-khool, Cauliflower can also be used.