Tamatar Chokha
charred tomatoes crushed with garlic, chilli and mustard oil into a smoky relish
Allergens in Tamatar Chokha: mustard.
Ingredients
Quantities for 4.
- 6 medium, about 700g, ripe and firm Tomato
- 6 cloves, peeled Garlic3 roasted, 3 crushed raw
- 3, finely chopped Green Chilli
- 1 small, finely chopped Onion
- 2 tbsp, raw Mustard Oil
- to taste Salt
- 0.25 tsp Black Saltoptional
- 3 tbsp, chopped Coriander Leaves
- 1 tsp, finely grated Gingeroptional
Cookware
stovetop
Checked against the ingredient list for ten allergens: milk, egg, fish, crustaceans, tree nuts, peanuts, sesame, mustard, soy and gluten. Brands vary, so read the label on anything new to you.
Before you start
- Use ripe tomatoes with taut skin; watery ones turn the chokha into soup.
- Thread 3 garlic cloves onto a skewer so you can char them on the flame alongside the tomatoes.
- Have the onion and chilli chopped before you start roasting. This comes together in two minutes once the tomatoes are off the flame.
Method
- Set the tomatoes directly on a medium gas flame, resting them on the trivet.
- Roast 10 to 12 minutes, turning with tongs, until the skins are blackened and split and the tomatoes slump.Let them blacken properly. Pale roasting gives you sauce, not chokha.
- Char the skewered garlic for the last 3 minutes until the cloves are spotted brown and soft.
- Rest 5 minutes, then slip off and discard the blackened skins, saving any juice on the plate.
- Mash the tomato flesh and roasted garlic together with a fork into a coarse pulp.
- Crush the 3 raw garlic cloves with a pinch of salt and stir them in with the ginger.Raw garlic is what separates this from a cooked chutney. Do not skip it.
- Fold in the onion, green chilli, coriander leaves, salt, black salt and the raw mustard oil.
- Taste and serve at room temperature with litti, sattu paratha or a plate of khichdi.
Storage
Keeps 2 days refrigerated. Serve at room temperature and stir in a little fresh mustard oil before serving; it separates as it sits.
Nutrition Good estimate
One serving of Tamatar Chokha (220 g) is about 112 calories, or 51 calories per 100 g.
Low protein: 2 g a serving, 8% of the calories
| Per serving220 g | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 112 kcal | 51 kcal |
| Protein | 2.3 g | 1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 10.8 g | 5 g |
| of which sugars | 5.7 g | 3 g |
| Fibre | 2.9 g | 1 g |
| Fat | 7.5 g | 3 g |
| of which saturated | 0.9 g | 0 g |
| of which unsaturated | 5.8 g | 3 g |
Ingredients given to taste count as zero, so the real figures run a little higher. Nearest database match used for black salt. Estimated from raw ingredients using USDA FoodData Central.
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