Raw Tomato Chutney (தக்காளிச் சட்டினி)

Ingredients:
Tomatoes (chopped)
Corainder Leaves (Kothamalli)
Green Chillies (As required)
Ginger (1 inch piece, peeled)
Coconut (grated)
Salt (prefer induppu)
Oil (prefer organic) - optional
Mustard Seeds (Kadugu) - optional

Preparation Steps:

1. Add chopped tomatoes, chopped Kothamalli, grated Ginger, grated Cocunut and salt and blend well in a mixer to smooth paste

2. If required, garnish with Mustard seeds (kadugu) spluttered in oil

Serve with some hot sathvik Tiffin! 

Tips Corner:

Here are a few tips to ensure a healthy and Sathvik vegan dish, when food becomes the medicine that heals the body.

Tomatoes, Kothamalli, Ginger & Cocunut in itself brings a lovely flavour and taste to the chutney. Green chillies and salt is more of a gratification for our taste buds, so use wisely and minimally if possible to help body enjoy the raw nature of the food

The garnishing with Mustard seeds (kadugu) is purely optional as raw food mixed with heated food reduces the true power of the raw food. So, if possible this step is best avoided as the chutney tastes great even without the tadka.

Fruits & Salads

Our body needs both Alkaline and Acidic foods for maintaining the PH level in the body.

In general, all vegetables are alkaline and all fruits are acidic in nature.

A meal could be substituted with either a fruit or vegetables, but not both together as eating both acidic and alkaline foods at the same time do not server the purpose of eating healthy.

It is advisable to have a single/mono fruit (not in quantity though) rather than mixing different fruits for a single meal.

Vegetable salads are healthier, nutritious and tastier when taken in the right form. We can substitute a meal with raw vegetable salads which gives us more energy than a cooked diet. It is better to avoid Onion, Garlic, Lemon, Salt & Pepper in the vegetable salad.

Mixing and matching of vegetable salad depends on one's creativity and acceptability towards eating the raw salads.

Note: BSD means Basic Salad  Dressing which is Tomato + Coconut + Coriander leaves (Kothamalli)

Carrot + Cucumber + BSD
Carrot + Capsicum + Cabbage + BSD
Carrot + Pudalangai + BSD
Carrot + Cabbage + BSD
Carrot + Zucchini + BSD
Carrot + Lettuce + BSD + Green Gram Sprouts
Cucumber + Capsicum + BSD + Green Gram Sprouts & Peanuts
Carrot + Beetroot + BSD + Green Gram Sprouts
Carrot + Cucumber + Palak greens + BSD
Beetroot + Chow chow + BSD + Ginger, Herbs
Pudalangai + Cucumber + Surakkai + BSD
Yellow Pumpkin + Coconut
Lady's Finger + Coconut + Green Gram Sprouts
Palak Greens + Cucumber + BSD
Carrot + Cauliflower + BSD

I will keep updating the different tried and tested salad recipes that are munchier, healthier and at the same time tastier...