East Indian
Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish)
Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 tomatoes
- 2 tbsp mustard oil
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- 2 green chilies, chopped
- 1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Roast the tomatoes over an open flame or under a broiler, turning occasionally, until the skins blister and char all over, about 10 minutes.
- Let them cool slightly, then peel off the charred skin and mash the tomatoes roughly with a fork.
- Add the garlic, green chilies, onion, and cilantro to the mashed tomato.
- Drizzle with mustard oil and lemon juice, season with salt, and mix well.
- Serve as a tangy relish alongside dal-bhat and chokha.
Serve it with
A East Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tomato and garlic.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from East India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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