There are so many simple, easy-to-cook recipes around us that we are unaware of. Often, these easy recipes will be thousand times more tasty and nutritional than the elaborate complex dishes we spend hours preparing. Well, let’s say that there is not only beauty but also flavour in simplicity. So, today, we are about to employ this concept. Let’s make some relatively easy but extremely tasty and nutritious tomato kurma to brighten our day.
Ingredients required for Tomato kurma
- Three large tomatoes, which are finely diced
- One medium onion, which is finely chopped
- A quarter cup of desiccated coconut
- One tablespoon of roasted chana dal
- Five whole cashews
- 2 long green chillies
- Half a teaspoon of fennel
- One teaspoon of coriander seeds
- Two tablespoons of oil
- Half a teaspoon of urad dal
- One teaspoon of mustard seeds
- Half a teaspoon of turmeric powder
- Half a teaspoon of Kashmiri red chilli powder
- A half-inch cinnamon stick
- Half a teaspoon of sugar
- One and a half cups of water
- Two tablespoons of coriander leaves.
- Salt as required
Preparation
- Now that we have all the ingredients needed to prepare Tomato kurma with us let’s start with the preparation.
- First, let’s start with preparing the masala paste needed for the preparation of this recipe.
- Take a blender and add the coconut and cashews into it.
- Just pulse both for two seconds and add green chillies, fennel seeds, coriander seeds and roasted chana dal into the mixture.
- Pulse the ingredients for another two seconds or until all the ingredients in the mixture get evenly dispersed.
- Now add ½ a cup of water into this mixture little at a time and blend the ingredients into a smooth paste and keep it aside.
- Heat some oil on a pan at medium heat.
- Once the oil gets hot enough, add the mustard seeds, urad dal and cinnamon to the oil.
- Now, when the spices are added to it attains a nice fragrance; throw some curry leaves into it.
- Once the spluttering finish, add finely chopped onions to the hot oil.
- Saute this for a few minutes until the onion turns translucent
- Now, add the chopped tomatoes to your mixture and saute it until the tomatoes become mushy in texture.
- Once the tomatoes start to break down and become mushy, add the masala powders like turmeric, chilli powder, sugar and salt.
- Saute this mixture until you see the oil gets separated.
- At this point, add the already prepared masala paste to this mixture.
- Add an adequate amount of water and adjust the consistency.
- Now incorporate everything well.
- Cover and cook this mixture for almost 15 minutes.
- Now garnish your tomato kurma with the chopped coriander leaves on it. Voila, your tomato kurma is ready to entice you!
So, as you have your tomato kurma ready to entertain you, why don’t you learn how this simple yet tasty recipe can be extremely beneficial for your health? So, shall we?
The nutritional benefits of Tomato kurma
Well, rather than divulging the nutritional benefits of all the items included in the tomato kurma, let’s concentrate on the hero ingredient added to it, Tomato. As tomato form is the major part of the dish and as the dish is named after Tomato, Shouldn’t the nutritional benefits of it be equivalent to the nutritional benefits of tomato kurma? Well, then, let’s do that. But, are you aware of the nutritional benefits of Tomato?
Tomato has a component named lycopene, which can strengthen your immune system. It also helps in reducing the LDL and blood pressure levels in your body which thereby gain lowers your risk of contracting cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, lycopene can prevent you from contracting oral diseases like gingivitis and periodontitis. Next, the zeaxanthin in tomatoes can improve the health of your eyes. Finally, the lycopene in tomatoes can also act as a sunscreen by blocking you from the harmful effects of sun, thereby maintaining the health of your skin. Well, there is another excellent product you can use if you want to nourish and enrich your skin naturally from inside to outside. Welcome to Nutriplus SkinHealth
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