There you are, blissfully going through your daily routine of cooking, chopping veggies, daydreaming – in general going about your daily routine that you think you have optimised to the hilt. Then suddenly one day your husband is in a good mood and offers to sharpen your knife to make your chopping easier. You think your knife is all good – but husband offering to do anything is rare and you think you should let him! He sets about the task and in about 10min you are asked to test drive. You are indifferent but you do it anyway. You chop that tomato and the knife goes sharp down, slicing neatly without even a little bit of squish to the tomato You are shocked! Hey – waiiitttaaaminute? What happened just now? You chop some more and realise that your job got done in half the time and much neater than all these months!
OPOS® was EXACTLY like that for me when I was first introduced to it. Invented by Ramki of One Page Cookbooks fame and developed further by a group of like minded members , this One Pot One Shot is unlike any other in the cooking world. It uses one of the most staple gadgets in an Indian’s household – Pressure Cooker and makes use of it to make a well rounded, wholesome, simplified, quick, effortless and nutritionally superior day to day recipes. That’s a long claim isn’t it? It sure is and from what I have cooked, I have to agree. People who know me are aware of my penchant for Green Living and that aspect of OPOS® drew me to it. Extremely less/low water wastage, electricity/Gas, less number of dishes to wash, a complete meal in less than 20-30 minutes of cooking with almost hands off cooking has made me a student of this technique. Will talk about it more with recipes to come in future. Until then, let’s get into a recipe using this technique.
We had abundant harvest of tomatoes from our home garden and I decided to use them to make a family favourite – thokku. Thokku is a South Indian equivalent of a pickle. This tangy pickle makes use of only Tomatoes (Thakkali) since I had to use them. But you can add in Onions and/or Garlic to make for variations. Please make sure to follow every instruction as given in order to enjoy the benefits of OPOS® cooking. Like baking, it is a precise science – worth a study; but once done, you will be rewarded with extremely satisfying results! (...)
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