Tomato Choka

7 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 8 to 10 plum tomatoes, washed
  • Salt, to taste
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 jalapeno or Scotch bonnet pepper
  • 2 sprigs cilantro/culantro
  • 1/3 cup corn oil
  • 1 small sliced onion

Directions

  1. 1
    Insert skewers in tomatoes and lay on open flame or cut in half.
  2. 2
    Lay cut side down on baking sheet and broil.
  3. 3
    Char until skin is blackened and peeling.
  4. 4
    Remove from flame and rest on plate.
  5. 5
    Peel off charred skin.
  6. 6
    Using a fork mash tomatoes, and add salt.
  7. 7
    In a mortar smash garlic, peppers and cilantro.
  8. 8
    Mix with puree tomatoes.
  9. 9
    Heat some of the oil in a saucepan and caramelize onion.
  10. 10
    Add heated oil caramelized onion mixture to tomatoes.

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