{"id":1509,"date":"2026-03-02T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:44:28","slug":"tomato-kasundi-indian-relish-or-condiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Kasundi (Indian Relish or Condiment)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tomato Kasundi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1\/2 cup of Canola Oil or any plain oil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup curry leaves, pulled off the stalks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 kilos of tomatoes, chopped into quarters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 packet of tomato paste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 Tablespoons Mustard Seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 teaspoons fenugreek seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 cups Onions, chopped finely<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup garlic, finely chopped or minced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup fresh ginger, finely chopped or minced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6 &#8211; 8 red chilli&#8217;s, finely chopped, including seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10 Cardamom pods, you roast these, but use only the seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 Tablespoons cumin seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 teaspoons ground turmeric<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 1\/2 cups white vinegar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 1\/2 cups brown sugar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salt and ground pepper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cornflour and vinegar to thicken if needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Heat a small pan and add the fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds and cardamon pods. Lightly toast everything for a few minutes. Cool slightly. Remove the Cardamom seeds from the pods; throw the pods out. Put all the seeds in a spice grinder until you have a smooth powder. I did this step the night before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heat the oil in a pan. Add the curry leaves, onion, garlic and ginger. Simmer for a few minutes then add your toasted spices, Mustard seeds, tomatoes, tomato paste, chillies, turmeric, vinegar, sugar, salt and ground pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simmer for around 2 hours, stirring frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it needs thickened at the end do so with cornflour mixed to a paste with vinegar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pour into sterilised jars and seal with sterilised lids. For me this made 14 small jars, but I may have had more tomatoes, as did not weigh them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomato Kasundi Heat a small pan and add the fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds and cardamon pods. Lightly toast everything for a few minutes. Cool slightly. Remove the Cardamom seeds from the pods; throw the pods out. Put all the seeds in a spice grinder until you have a smooth powder. I did this step the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pickles","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}