East Indian

Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish)

Name: Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: East Indian
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

Rina @rina_b

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.

15 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Tomato Bharta/Chokha will not forget the taste/Tomato chokha recipe/Tomato bharta Play the video

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.

The dish at the centre
- Aloo Posto (Potato in Poppy Seed Paste)
  
  35 min
The cooked vegetable
- Aloo Bhaja (Bengali Fried Potato Strips)
  
  20 min
The protein alongside
- Arhar Dal (Bihari-Style Toor Dal)
  
  30 min
What it is eaten with
- Bajra Bhakri (Pearl Millet Flatbread)
  
  35 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Tomato Chokha (Roasted Tomato-Garlic Relish)
Allergen	In this dish
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 80 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 8 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 210 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.