Hi , Sun dried tomatoes are special during summer, only in summers we would able to make this . Though Iam not much expert in this my mum makes it perfectly. the pickle stays fresh in shelf for about 3 months and if refrigerated it stays good even for 6 months. Here is the awesome tomato pickle recipe . INGREDIENTS : Tomatoes - 1 kg. Salt - 4 tsp. Tamarind - guava sized. Fenugreek - 1 tsp Mustard - 2 tsp. Cumin - 1 tsp. Channa dal - 2 tsp. Tur dal - 2 tsp. Gingely oil - 5 tblsp. Dry red chillies - 15 nos. METHOD : 1) Wash and wipe tomatoes well. 2) Chop them roughly. 3) In a glass bowl add chopped tomatoes , salt and let it sit overnight. 4) Next morning the tomatoes will leave lot for water. 5) Squeeze tomato juice from tomatoes and spread in a wide plate. 6) Sun dry tomatoes and its juice in hot clear sun. 7) At end of the day fill the drying tomatoes in its juice itself and keep overnight. 8) Next morning again repeat the process by ...
Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have...