Tomato Kurma

Ingredients :

• Ripe tomatoes - 5 to 6
• Onion - 2 [ peeled and finely chopped ]
• Green chillie - 2 [ slit ]
• Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 11/2 tsp
• Salt - as required

For seasoning :

• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Cinnamon - 1 small piece
• Cloves - 2
• Fennel seeds - 3/4 tsp [ sombu ]
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

Chop onions finely  and slit green  chillies. Then grind raw tomatoes and keep aside.[ 2 cups of tomato purie. Grind coconut with adding  little water to a smooth paste. Keep all the things ready. Then heat oil in a  kadai,  add cinnamon, cloves and fennel seeds. When fennel seeds sizzle, add chopped onions, green  chillies  and  curry leaves. Saute till onions turn golden brown. Then add tomato  purie, and other  dry masala   powder and salt. Cook till raw smell goes. At this stage add coconut paste and required water. Cook for further 5 to 8 minutes more. Then remove from the gas. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. It 's goes well with chapati, all parathas, idli, dosa, idiyappam and upma.