If you want some spicy taste with food or suddenly the house guests come, then you can serve this onion-tomato sauce quickly.
Essential ingredients to make onion-tomato sauce:
Finely chopped tomatoes – 2
Finely chopped onion – 1
Grapped coconut – 1/4 cup
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Dry red chili-3-4
Chopped Ginger – 1 inch piece
Tamarind – A small piece
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Oil – 2 tsp
Salt – as per taste
Ingredients for the tempering:
Rye (mustard seeds) – 1 tsp
Dry Kashmiri Red Chilli – 2
Curry leaves – 6 to 8
Urad Dal – 1/2 tsp
Oil – 2 tsp
Step-by-step method
First of all, wash tomatoes, onions and ginger thoroughly and cut it finely. Now keep a pan on the gas and add 2 teaspoons of oil to it. If the oil is hot, add urad dal and dry red chili to it and fry it on medium flame till it becomes light golden.
Now add chopped onion and ginger and fry it till the onion turns slightly soft and light pink. After this add tomatoes and mix. Cook the tomatoes until it melts completely. Now add turmeric, salt and tamarind and mix.
If you want, you can enhance its taste even more by applying a temper in this chutney. For this, take a small tempering pan, heat the oil in it. Then add rye, urad dal, red chili and curry leaves. Pour this tempering in the prepared chutney and mix. Now serve it with parathas, idli, dosa or any snacks.