🍲 Learning Cooking, how to cook tomato paste 🍲

Therefore, here is the trick that I use to do when I newly started cooking Asian foods

It is an easy peasy idea for beginners, save a lot of time for hard working wife's/mothers if your family loves Asian foods. It is also a good idea if you have many of these ingredients in the fridge and you know they do not stay fresh for a long time. However, you can make it into a paste and freeze them. Let us begin so I have these tomatoes for over a week now and some of them starting to get smushy mushy that is what I call it he-he. As you can see in the picture below.

A lot of you probably know that in the Asian foods, the most ingredients used by a cook almost in every dish are;

• Garlic

• Ginger

• Onions

• Tomatoes

• Green chillies

• Coriander/ Parsley/ Mint

I cut these into half just like it's shown in the picture below.

You can chop them with knife or save time and put in the chopper/blender

Now I know you probably thinking, paste is made now freeze it? Armm nope there is more to it he-he. Put some oil in a saucepan and add the paste with dry spices (whichever you prefer) most used in Asian foods are;

• Salt

• Red chillies

• Turmeric powder

Let it shimmer for at least 15 minutes until it looks like in the left picture.

I took some out so I can make Brinjal veggie

When the paste is ready I let it cool down for an hour then divide into these little containers.

Now freeze them. You can make as many you want. If you cook everyday or have less time, make five-paste container, one for each day until the weekend comes. It save you time for making an Asian dish. I know for hard working wife/mothers who have to do double job it can be hard, just take one container out before going to the bed and the next day it will be as fresh as you just made it. Do try it and let me know how was the experience.

If you are making a fresh paste then in the pan, add 2 to 4 tbsp oil, add 1 to 2 medium size chopped onion and fry them until they are translucent. Add the crushed ginger-garlic. Stir and saute until the raw aroma of ginger-garlic disappears. Add 2 to 3 medium size chopped tomatoes and saute until they become soft and mushy. Add all the dry spice powders. Stir and saute for a couple of minutes. Add your vegetables/chicken/meat. Garnish with green chillies and coriander.

Make things easier for yourself. A ♡ O