Onion and Tomato relish/salad (kachumber)

Most Indians russell up quick salad/kachumber with what ever salad ingredients they may have in the fridge.  This salad when mixed with spices ends up tasting more like a relish or salsa  than a plain salad.  It goes well with all Indian curries and chappatis.

Ingredients:

2 small onions
1 sweet chilly pepper
1 medium tomato
salt and pepper to taste

½ tsp cumin and coriander powder (often called dhana jiru)

1 tsp lemon juice

½ tsp sugar or sugar substitute

2 tsp Chilly sauce (or any sauce you like) 

1 tsp ginger juliennes to garnish

Method:

1.  Wash and chop or grate the onions, tomatoes and peppers to any shape/size you like. 

2. All all the spices including the chilly sauce, lemon juice and sugar/sugar substitute.

3. Mix well, cover with cling film and refrigerate.  Garnish with ginger juliennes and serve with any Indian meal.  The crunchy salad is simple and quick to make and adds flavour to any meal. You can add  grated carrots, cucumber, radishes or fresh coriander to the salad too.  As I said, it all depends on what you have in your fridge.

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Puran puri and Peas and potato curry

Last Thursday's Evening Standard had an article about a blog called "Eating the year Blog" where the blogger Virginia Patania photographed all her meals evryday and blogged about it.  I thought that that was a great idea and might try to do something similar but at the same time - give you a link to the recipe for people who may be interested.

Todays's dinner was Puran puri which is a chapati made with sweet lentils stuffing. It is the festival of  Holi  so I wanted to make a sweet dish which the whole family could enjoy.

For the curry option - I made a simple peas and potato curry (mutter bateta nu shak). This curry is one of my favourites and goes well with puran puri..  It's also very quick to make this which is great when you work long hours.  Traditionally puran puris are served with a curry, rice and Kadhi (a yogurt soup).  As I mention the combination, I realise that my blog does not have the recipe for Kadhi which I shall post soon.  For that reason too, I am appreciating this Post.

I also made some plain rice to go with  the meal.  I just realised that I have never posted a recipe for  plain rice so I shall be posting that soon.

Most Indian meals are served with chutneys or salad.  I made some onion and tomato and fresh ginger salad which we call Kachumber. (Recipe for the salad dressing will be posted soon)

We always eat our meals as a family round the table.  We feel that its so important for a family to sit and eat together every day.  We enjoyed this hot and delicious meal talking about our day and listening to the Radio. 

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