Most of the recipes for tomato stew I've seen people cook recommend first boiling your ground fresh tomatoes and pepper to remove water before frying. The subsequent steps also involve adding water again, this is where the whole stuff makes no sense to me.

My question is, considering the high cost of energy, can one skip the boiling part and fry ground fresh tomatoes direct? Has anyone ever tried this with a good result? Experienced cooks in the house over to you.

I don't pre cook mine. Just grind, dice or mash with little or no water and pour into the pot with your hot oil, Onion peper and spice. Just give it time to cook to the consistency you want.

hannydarl: I don't pre cook mine. Just grind, dice or mash with little or no water and pour into the pot with your hot oil, Onion peper and spice. Just give it time to cook to the consistency you want.

will the taste be the same or different?

Of course u can skip boiling and just fry it,but the taste is different,I stil prefer boiling it first

it can taste d same, all u ve to do is. 1 u need to be patient when u cook, 2 with all necessary ingrednt in place pour plenty oil in ur sauce pan or pot, when hot add ur onions, and pour ur grind tomatoes, in dont stir, allow the tomatoes to cook untill the water in it reduces/drys off and u can see the oil only, at this point if u want to put tin tomatoes u can add it, and as well add every oda tin u want to. ok why u evapourates the water in the tomates is cos of the sour taste, its jos lyk frying meat dry and putting it back to d soup/stew. This is d way i cook mine anyway, i hope my post was helpful?

4m ur post I c say u no get power 2 cook @ all.u can get a seive(one wit tight holes)after blending u boil 4 like 5mins den just pour it in d seive den allow d water go off,wen its dry u can now fry.don't use a seive wit big holes oh,if nt all d tomatoes go just throwway.u don't ve 2 boil b4 u fry,if u fry straight u still get d same taste,u just ve 2 leave it 2 dry dats all.after u pay me 4 dis tutorial,no b 4 free oh

cdamsel: 4m ur post I c say u no get power 2 cook

No, not that. The rising cost of energy is the concern. There's a need to review all processes to take out the unnecessary ones.

skip boiling and go straight to frying.

nusdog:

will the taste be the same or different?

I like it better so to me it tastes better. Just don't add too much water when blending. When I blend I add a little water to the first batch if tomato is not juicy enough. Then I just add seed lil by lil using the first batch as liquid. When blender gets full I turn out some and still remain some as base to continue blending instead of adding water. That way I have a bit thicker paste to work with. And does not require too much time to cook dry.
If you ask me sha o, I think its same time and amount of energy. If you pre cook and have your meat steamed already the stew will not need too much time to cook. If you don't pre cook tomato you will wait longer to get it cooked and thicken.

I never boil tomotoes. Just ensure you blend with as little water as possible and ensure that the oil is VERY HOT before you fry. Fry the onions first (only for a few seconds because the oil is very hot and the onions will start to burn)then add the blended tomatoes, pepper and onions. allow to dry to the needed consistency before spicing and addning the meat stock, meat etc. Believe me, stew tastes better this way.