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Cook Time 20 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups tomatoes diced
  • 3-4 garlic cloves
  • 1 teaspoon lal mirch/red chilli powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon haldir/turmeric powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon rai/mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon dhania-jeera/coriander and cumin seeds powder
  • 1-2 teaspoons jaggery
  • a pinch of hing/asafoetida
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • salt to taste
  • coriander to garnish
  • for the sev
  • 1/2 cup besan/chickpea flour
  • 1 teaspoon oil
  • a pinch of carom seeds/ajwain
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder
  • salt to taste

Method
 

  1. First pound the garlic and chilli powder together to a coarse paste. Take out the paste from the mortar and keep aside.
  2. Prepare the dough for the gathiya. Take a gathiya/large holed disc. Place the dough in the sev making machine.
  3. Place a kadhai on medium flame. Add the oil.
  4. Once the oil heats up add the mustard seeds and hing. Once the mustard seeds pop add the pounded garlic paste and sauce for 30-40 seconds.
  5. Add the chopped tomatoes and cook for couple of minutes. Add the turmeric powder, coriander and cumin powder, salt, jaggery. Cook for 1-2 minutes. The tomatoes should have become all mushy by now.
  6. Add 1.5 to 2 cups water. Bring the water to a roaring boil.
  7. While the shaak is boiling, bring the sev machine over the kadai and begin twisting it so that the gathiya fall directly in the boiling shaak. Keep your hand moving in circular motion. The water should be boiling all the time. If the temperature drops and the water isn't boiling stop. Continue once the water is boiling. You may gently make space for the Gathiya to spread and cook evenly. Once the Gathiya float to the top, consider it done. Cook for couple of minutes, add chopped coriander if you want.
  8. Serve hot with flat bread of your choice.

Notes

When in season you may use green tomatoes with the red ones. I have used 1 cup each.