Tomato Rice

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Tomato rice is one of the easiest rice recipes. I am huge fan of flavored rice and my friends would defiantly back me up on this. On days when we would plain rice and some curry in our hostel, my friends would have to force me to eat and I would always find some excuse to eat as little as possible, but when it came to flavored rice they won't have to struggle that much.

So after marriage when I became the soul owner of the kitchen, we would have some kind of flavored rice at least twice every week.

Ingredients:


  1. Basmati Rice: 1 cup
  2. Onions: 1 large thinly sliced
  3. Tomato : 1 cup pureed
  4. Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
  5. Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
  6. Red chilly powder: 1/2 tsp
  7. Garam masala powder : 1/4 tsp
  8. Curry leaves: 4-6
  9. Salt to taste
  10. Green chili: 2
  11. Asafetida: a pinch
  12. Oil : 1 tbsp
  13. Water : 2 cups


Procedure:

Cook the rice in a cooker with 2 cups of water.
In a pan heat oil and add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, asafetida, green chili and curry leaves.
As all the spices stop cracking add chopped onion and cook till the onions turn transparent.
Add red chili powder and garam masala and cook till the raw smell of chili is gone.
Add the  tomato puree and salt to taste and let it cook till all the spics are cooked through.
Add the cooked rice to the spice mix. Stir and cook till rice is nicely coated with all the spices.
Fry for another 2 mins and tomato rice is ready. 
Serve it with rasam or curd.


You can always use left over rice from privies day if you have any. It works as great as it works with freshly prepared rice. Just remember to warm up the left over rice a little. You can use your microwave for that or go traditional by cooking the left over rice in hot water for 2-4 mins and draining out the water.

Enjoy and do let me know.

Till next time happy blogging
Rakhee

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