Capsicum / Tindora Masala

Ingredients:

• Capsicum / Tindora: 1/4 kg
• Onion: 2 medium sized
• Ground nuts: 50gm
• Seseame seeds: 50gm
• Coconut(dry or fresh): 50gm
• Jeera powder: 1 tbsp
• Dhaniya powder: 1 1/2 tbsp
• Pepper: 1/4 tbsp
• Red chilli powder: 2-3 tbsp
• Ginger Garlic paste: 2 tbsp
• Tamarind: big lemon sized
• Mustard: 1/2 tsp
• Jeera: 1/2 tsp
• Red chilies: 3
• Curry leaves: 2 strips
• Coriander leaves: Hand full
• Tumeric powder:1/2 tsp
• Oil: 4-6 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation process:

• Wash, cut capsicum/tindora into a medium size pieces and put a side.( If ur using tindora then better cook it befor and use it).
• Soak tamerind in little water.
• Shallow fry ground nut, seseame and add a little oil into the same pan and fry pepper,cloves and cardmum.
• Add the above fried into a mixy along with jeera powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, ginger garlic paste,Haldi and ground into a fine powder.
• For step 3 add tamarind along with water and ground into a fine thick paste, add water if required.
• Now add fried onion with 2 pushes.
• Heat a kadai and add 4 tbsp of oil in it and now add  mustard, let it jump up, next add jeera, broken red chili, curry leaves and fry a little.
• For the above add capsicum/cooked tindora, salt to veg only and fry till it gets soft.
• Once it done add the above ground paste, add water if any required but not too much of water, salt to taste.
• Let it cook in a simmer till the oil comes out and adjust salt n masala taste and finally add a hand-full of coriander leaves, off the stove.
• serve with rice, puri, chapathi.