Tomato Saar – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• In a pot take tomatoes. Add beetroot, water.
• Put the pot in the pressure cooker and cook on medium heat until 3 whistles.
• Peel the cooked tomatoes. Transfer the boiled, peeled tomatoes into blender pot.
• Add a few pieces of boiled beet and a little water in which the beet was cooked to blender pot.
• Add peeled, chopped ginger to blender pot.
• Take cornflour in a bowl. Add boiled beet water to it and make a paste.
• No lumps of cornflour should be formed.
• Add cornflour paste to blender pot, close the lid and blend it nicely.
• The tomato, beet ginger paste is ready.
• Heat up 1 tsp ghee in a pan. Add cumin seeds, asafetida. Mix it once.
• Lower the heat and sieve the tomato puree through a sieve into tadka.
• This will remove the pieces of ginger or beet if any and tomato seed.  Add a little water.
• Add cumin powder, red chili powder, bay leaf, and jaggery. Add salt to taste.
• Cook the saar on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes.
• Tomato saar is already.
• You can add bread croutons to saar if you want.