Tomato Jam Recipe with step by step pictures. Easy Tomato preserves or Thakkali jam recipe is made with tomatoes, sugar and cardamom.
Tomato Jam Recipe
I thought of making some kind of special recipe for this new year..But i didn't get anytime to prepare it..So pardon me friends..For us Tamil New Year has lots of traditions to follow..First thing in the morning, we wont see anything other than a mirror which is decorate with lots of flowers and gold jewels. There will so many vegetables as well as fruits which are arranged in a banana leaf. We call this as "Kani kanurathu".
The settings will be something like this. The main dish in this function is "Aval Varatunathu", which is a sweet dish made with poha..And there is a special event happening in this function, which is called as 'Kai Neetam'..People who are elder gives money to the younger people by blessing them. This is how we celebrate this new year.Now coming back to todays recipe..It is a instant tomato jam, which taste so good..You can make it pretty quickly and it contains no preservatives.
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📖 Recipe

Tomato Jam Recipe | Thakkali Jam Recipe
Ingredients
- 5 large Tomato
- 1 cup Sugar
- 4 Cardamom
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
- Take tomatoes and make slashes all over the tomatoes..Heat water in a sauce pan,bring it to a boil. Add the tomatoes in and cook for 1 mins. Remove it and place in ice cold water. Now peel away the skin, it will come pretty easily.
- Chop up these peeled tomatoes and add it to a blender and make into a puree.
- Add this puree, sugar, cardamom and salt in a kadai and heat it up. Mix well.
- Bring this to a boil and cook it for 15 mins. It will turn reddish colour.
- When it gets thick add a tblspn of ghee and mix well..
- It will be thick and glooby. Allow it to cool down.
- Transfer it to a clean container and store in fridge.
Tomato Jam Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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Take all your ingredients |
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Criss cross your tomatoes |
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Put in boiling water |
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drop them in ice cold water |
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peel the skin off |
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all peeled and naked |
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chop them up |
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add in blender |
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and make into a puree |
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add it to the kadai along with sugar |
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add cardamom |
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and a pinch of salt |
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mix well |
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boil it and cook till it get thick |
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add ghee and mix well |
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Jam done |
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Serve |
Santosh Bangar
it is realy yummy as ur blog
Santosh Bangar
it is realy yummy as ur blog
Santosh Bangar
it is realy yummy as ur blog
jeyashrisuresh
delicious jam
ANU
wow this reminds me of my mom..she used to mk this for us all the time!
Mélange
My Mouth waters Aarthi..Extremely yummy.Nice idea to preserve as well..Happy Tamil New year to you and family.
Mahi
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Lavanya T R
Looks super perfect 🙂
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Prasanth
nice work..
R
wow so innovative, yumm...
Nalini's Kitchen
Tasty and delicious jam.....
Sharmilee! :)
Homemade is always best...looks yum
Hema
Very yummy homemade jam, looks superb..
Gayathri NG
Tangy n flavorful Jam...
maha
Wow delicious..can just imagine the taste..yummy jam.
maha
the mad
Wow this is real yummy. Love the colour.
Trix
That sounds great - I would love it on a buttermilk biscuit!
Jagruti
The tagline "Without preservatives" is so attractive since these its so difficult to find anything without them.
Lovely way to use up seasonal produce 🙂
Anonymous
Your step by step pictures are a great help..makes cooking so easy
beena stephen
Good one .will try
ams
aarthi what is the shelf life of this jam when kept in the frigde??
Aarthi
@amsu can keep it for more than a month
Suzanne
I never try tomato jam before but this looks good.
Virgie
Hi Aarthi
I'm a regular follower of your recipes. Thanks for your simple and delightful posts.
Just a doubt....did u use natti tomatoes or the hybrid ones?