Ingredients

• 1 cup - pureed tomatoes
• Red chillies to taste
• 1/2 tsp - turmeric
• 1 tsp - sugar
• 6 - curry leaves
• 1 tsp - garlic, ginger, green chillies (paste)
• 1 cup - gram flour
• 1 tsp - mustard seeds
• Pinch of asafoetida (Hing)
• 1/2 tsp - fenugreek seeds
• 4 tbsp - oil
• Couple of sprigs of coriander (fresh)
• salt to taste

How to Make Sev Shak

• Heat the oil in a pan.
• Add the mustard seeds, fenugreek seed and hing.
• Stir in the ginger-garlic-chilli paste together with the turmeric powder.
• Add curry leaves and then the tomatoes.
• Add salt to taste and the sugar too.
• Let it cook till the oil seeps through. Boil well and then add 2 cups of boiling water.
• Make a dough of the gram flour (season to taste) and insert in a sev machine and pipe into the boiling tomato soup.
• Cover and cook for 10 mins. Garnish with coriander.