Red Tomato Sauce or Dip

Tomato is playing a vital role in cooking for it’s taste and colour in all cuisines. Red tomatoes are eye catching and I feel like cooking something or other daily with it. I prepare sauce or dip with tomatoes for pastas, noodles and for finger chips, pakodas.

This time I have cooked Red Tomato Sauce or Dip in a microwave oven. The taste and colour was excellent. With less effort and less time, the tomato sauce/dip has come out well. In my microwave, this took 8 minutes only to prepare.

Cooking time – 8 min.

Ingredients

• Red big tomato – 2 no
• Onion – 1 no
• Green chilli – 1 no
• Garlic cloves – 2 no
• Black pepper powder – 1 tea spoon
• Red chilli powder – ½ tea spoon
• Tomato puree/tomato ketch up – 2 table spoon
• Turmeric powder – pinch
• Italian seasoning – ½ tea spoon
• Coriander leaves – few
• Salt – as per taste
• Olive oil/any-edible oil – 1 table spoon
• Sugar – ¼ tea spoon (optional)

Method

• Chop onion, garlic, green chilli and coriander nicely; wash tomatoes; take 3 to 4 cups of water in a micro safe bowl; prick the tomatoes in two or three places with a fork (this is necessary to cook safely in microwave) and keep them in the bowl.

• Cook this in 100% micro power for 4 minutes in open; in between turn the sides of tomato for even cooking; remove and transfer cooked tomato to a plate.

• In the same micro safe bowl, add oil, onion, garlic, green chilli, coriander leaves, salt and pinch of turmeric; mix well, cover it and cook for 2 minutes in 100% micro power; stir in between once or twice.

• Now remove the skin of the tomatoes and put it in a mixer with other dry spices and tomato puree.

• Blend it well; transfer this to the same bowl where we cooked onion and other species; mix well.

• Cook it in microwave in open for 2 minutes in 100% power; give 2 minutes standing time (this is necessary for safety) and then remove.

• Serve this hot or cold with Finger Fries, Bajji or any snacks.

Tips

• Use ripe red tomato to get better results.

This post is part of the event “Microwave Easy Cooking (MEC) – Dips and Spreads” hosted by Manju of Mirch Masala and scheduled by Srivalli of Cooking 4 All Seasons.