Special tomato curry (Thakkalipeera)

Ingredients:
Tomato chopped- 3 nos
Onions/shallots( sliced and then cut half)- 1 cup
Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
Green chillies-3 slit
Ginger chopped- 2 tsp
Garlic chopped- 1 tsp
Kudampuli- 2-3 soaked in water
Coconut oil-2 tsp
Curry leaves-Little
Turmeric powder-1 tsp
Salt- As required

Method:
1) Mix all the ingredients exccept coconut oil and cook the same in a pan.
When cooked properly add coconut oil and little curry leaves on top and cover it for sometime and turn off the flame.

This would be good with rice.

Own recipe

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