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Tomato Kurma Recipe | Thakkali Kurma
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 

TomatoKurma or Thakkali Kurma is one of the easy yet delicious recipes which can be made in a jiffy. This recipe best suits with any breakfast recipe like Idli, puri, dosa and chapati.

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Thakkali Kurma, Tomato Kurma Recipe
Servings: 4
Calories: 64 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Tomatoes – 1 bowl.
  • Onions – ½ bowl
  • Cinnamon sticks – 3 No.
  • Cloves – 3 No.
  • Green cardamoms – 2 No.
  • Dry coconut – ½ cup
  • Oil – 4 tbsp.
  • Mustard seeds – ¼ tbsp.
  • Chana dal – ¼ tbsp.
  • Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp.
  • Green chillies – 6 No.
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp.
  • Curry leaves – 2 tbsp.
  • Salt – ½ tbsp.
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
  • Curd – 1 cup
  • Red chilli powder – 1 ¼ tbsp.
  • Water – required qty.
  • Coriander powder – 1 tbsp.
  • Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.
Instructions
  1. For Thakkali Kurma recipe, masala or spice powder plays an important role so let’s prepare spice powder first.
  2. In a pan add dry coconut, cinnamon sticks, green cardamoms and cloves.
  3. Put them at an interval of 10-20 seconds as they might get burnt. Dry roast them and keep aside.
  4. In a pan heat 4 tbsp. oil and add chana dal, cumin and mustard seeds.
  5. Once mustard seeds start spluttering add onions and green chillies.
  6. When onions turn translucent, add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a while.
  7. Add curry leaves, turmeric powder and tomatoes. Mix well and cover the pan with a lid.
  8. Cook for 10 minutes till tomatoes turn soft.
  9. Open the lid, stir and put coconut paste, yogurt, water and red chilli powder. Mix well and cook for a minute on low flame.
  10. Once dry roast spices are cooled, transfer them into a mixer grinder and make soft-paste by adding little water.
  11. Put this spice paste in the tomato mixture. Stir and cook on low flame for 10 minutes with lid covered.
  12. During this period of cooking, tomatoes absorb the flavors of spices.
  13. At the end of the recipe, sprinkle coriander powder and mix well.
  14. Coriander powder acts as a mild thickening agent so if you want thick gravy for chapati or puri to leave it as it is or else add little more water while adding spice paste.
  15. Garnish Tomato kurma recipe with coriander leaves and serve hot with breakfast recipes.

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