Blackberry Jam

Jam comes in handy when i feel lazy to cook. I always buy it from the stores and stock it.Never thought that i wud be able to do a homemade jam. Usually jam is made by adding lot of preservatives but i don't prefer to add any preservative. I had lot of blackberries from my garden. Literally had no idea of what to do with it and ended up making jam.

Ingredients :

Blackberries - 500 gms
Sugar - 1 kg
Lemon juice - 50 ml
Water - 50 ml

Jam making process:

Add water and blackberries into a heavy pan and boil it in medium heat for 10 mins. The fruits become softer, at this stage add the lemon juice and sugar and keep stirring until the fruit pulp turns into a jam like consistency. Make sure the jam is not watery. If you don't prefer to have the seeds, use a muslin cloth and filter the fruit pulp before adding sugar.

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Tomato Pickle/Thokku - Mum's recipe

Tomato thokku is my most favourite .When i got this recipe from my mum, was not confident enough of doing it. The recipe looks simple but it needs lot of patience while stirring.


Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 15
Red chillies - 10
Asafoetida - 1 tsp
salt - 2 tsps
Gingelly Oil - 100 ml
Curry leaves - 2 strands
A little Tamarind (optional)
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad Dhal - 1 tsp
Garlic - 1

Pickling Method:

Slice the tomatoes and peel the garlic. Grind the tomatoes, garlic,red chillies and tamarind(optional) and make a paste out of it. Heat a pan with a very thick base and add the oil into it. Do the seasoning with mustard seeds, urad dhal and add asafoetida into it. Finally add the ground paste,salt and curry leaves into it . Close it with a tight lid. Keep stirring........Keep stirring............Keep on stirring...........Done!!!!!

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Lot of recipe requests from my readers. Very busssssyyyyyyyy @ work.Will try and post some of those during this weekend........