Recipes with Tomato
12 recipes
There are 12 recipes here that use Tomato, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Stir-Fried Water Spinach with Shrimp Paste at 10 minutes; the longest, Manadonese Spicy Chicken, takes 45. 3 of them finish in twenty minutes or less, which is usually what matters on a weeknight.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave โ a stove and a pan is enough. 5 are vegetarian. 11 are properly spicy.
Tomato turns up most often alongside Red chili, Palm sugar, Bird's eye chili and Lime โ if you have one or two of those as well, more of this list becomes cookable tonight rather than after a shopping trip. Add what you have to your fridge and the recipes reorder themselves around it, with anything missing collected into a shopping list.
Stir-Fried Water Spinach with Shrimp Paste
Five minutes in a hot wok. One secret only: never put a lid on it.
โฑ 10 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Eggs in Chili Sauce
Boiled eggs flash-fried for a skin, then coated in properly cooked red chili paste.
โฑ 30 min๐ฝ 4 servingsEasy
Tempeh with Green Chili
The fresh heat of green chili, not the sharp kind. The tempeh stays tender, never fried dry.
โฑ 20 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Manadonese Spicy Chicken
Honest heat from whole bird's eye chilies, with a slap of lemon basil and ginger.
โฑ 45 min๐ฝ 4 servingsMedium
Fried Fish with Fresh Chili Salsa
The sambal is raw โ just sliced and hit with hot oil. Five minutes, and far fresher for it.
โฑ 25 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Simple Tomato Spaghetti
Real tomatoes, garlic, and pasta water. Three things that make jarred sauce unnecessary.
โฑ 25 min๐ฝ 2 servingsEasy
Eggplant in Chili Paste
The eggplant is flash-fried in hot oil so it does not soak up oil like a sponge.
โฑ 25 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Fried Catfish with Shrimp Paste Sambal
The sambal is pounded, not blended. It comes out coarse, and that is exactly right.
โฑ 30 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Fried Catfish with Tomato Sambal
The sambal is fried, not raw โ that is what makes it keep until tomorrow and taste deeper.
โฑ 30 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Prawn and Petai Sambal
Hot, pungent, and not for everyone. The petai gets only a brief fry so it stays crunchy.
โฑ 25 min๐ฝ 3 servingsMedium
Lombok-Style Water Spinach
The greens are boiled, not fried, then topped with raw tomato sambal. Two textures that a stir-fry never gives you.
โฑ 20 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy
Smashed Eggplant with Green Sambal
The eggplant is charred in a dry pan until the skin wrinkles, not fried. Deeper flavour, far less oil.
โฑ 25 min๐ฝ 3 servingsEasy