The Complete Ayurvedic Cookbook - The Eumundi Medicine Man

Ingredients:
Organic tomatoes, water, ghee and spice
TOMATO SAUCE
My goodness! It’s REAL!
Main Meals
When it comes to an incredible tasting tomato sauce I always insist on real tomatoes
that have a taste. When you make this tomato sauce there is no going back, to the
stale, preserved, tasteless chemical cocktail some poor ill-informed souls perceive as
tomato sauce (dead horse).
Simply boil the whole tomatoes in water for say 3-5 minutes. Drain them in a
colander
In a large pot add a tablespoon of ghee and a teaspoon of black mustard seeds. Heat
on a medium to high flame until the mustard begins to pop. Add half a teaspoon of
cumin seed and a large pinch of fenugreek seeds. After a minute add a large pinch of
Asafoetida.
Now immediately begin to squash the tomatoes through a colander with a masher.
Mash all the liquid into the spicy ghee pot add salt and pepper to taste.
Add a few fresh chopped dates for a nice twist.
Now you have your REAL Tomato Sauce. Add garlic or hing for an Italiano
experience, for use on pastas and pizza, and of course a sauce for kofta balls
(see p. 68).
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