Vaniensamayalarai: Tomato Rice

Friday, June 19, 2015

Tomato Rice

My son love love this Tomato Rice a lot and became a big fan of this rice... Initially I never got it right consistency when I tried to make. Either I over cook the rice or the tomato paste to be mixed with rice properly... I saw my friend blog how to make a perfect tomato rice.. I follow the procedure as per her method and correct consisteny to add rice, so now a days I make tasty tomato rice.

Once I made this tomato rice, my son like this recipe and asked to make it the same way other day too. I felt really happy for the first time.. Here I use less spices powder, but you can adjust as per your wish.. Fried garlic in oil make the rice more flavourful and aromatic..

Tomato Rice is going to my lunch box idea. So try this and let me know how it turned out for you...

Preparation time : 15 mins

Soaking time : 15 mins

Cooking time : 30 mins

Serve - 4

INGREDINTS :

Basmati rice - 2 cups

Oil - 3 tbspn

Garlic cloves - 10 nos

Tomato - 4 (chopped)

Onion - 2 (sliced)

Green chilli - 4 (sliced)

Chilli powder - 1 tspn

Garam masala powder - 1/2 tspn

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn

Cinnamon sticks - 2

Cloves / krambu - 2

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn

Coriander leaves - few (chopped)

Curry leaves - few

Salt - 1 tbspn

Sugar - 1 tbspn

METHOD :

Start by cooking rice, wash rice well and soaked it for 30 mins and cook the rice.
Once cooked fluff the rice and let it cool down completely.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add in whole spices and let them sizzle.
Add in garlic and saute till golden.
Add in onions and green chillies. saute till golden.
Add in tomatoes, salt and sugar and curry leaves cook till it mushy.
Then add in spice powders, ginger garlic paste and mix well
Keep cooking them, at a stage the oil will seperate from the mix.
Now add in the cooked rice and mix well.
Fry this for few mins.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raita.