Methi Thokku

Ingredients :

• Sambhar onion - 1 / 2 cup [ peeled cut in to four ]
• Red tomatoes - 3 big [ cut into small pieces ]
• Green chillies - 4 to 5
• Methi leaves - 1 cup [ clean and chopped only leaves ]
• Salt - as required
• Dry red chilli -2
• Tamarind paste - 1 / 2 tsp
• Jaggery - 1 / 2 tsp

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Broken black gram dahl - 2 tabl. sps.
• Asafoetida - 1 / 4 tsp
• Oil - 2 tabl. sps.

Method :

Take one kadai, heat oil add mustard, urad dal, red chilli. When mustard splutters and dhal turn in to golden, add onion,green chillies, and tomatoes. Fry for 5 minutes till tomatoes become soft. Then add methi leaves. Fry till it changes colour and shrinks. Add salt, asafoetida, jaggery, and tamarind paste. Then grind all together coarsely in mixer. Serve with steamed rice, roti, dosas.