Tomato rice recipe, Thakkali sadam recipe (With garlic)

I love tomato rice a lot. Initially I never got it right when I tried to make. Either I will over cook the rice or wont cook this tomato paste to be mixed with rice properly. So the taste wont be perfect. Then experience teach me how to make a decent tomato rice. Now a days I can proudly say I make tasty tomato rice. Once when I made this tomato rice, I could see my MIL like this one and asked to make it the same way other day too. I felt really happy for the first time that day when I knew I too can cook properly as it was my beginning stage in cooking. I like the garlic flavor in tomato rice a lot. So make sure always add it. Below is the video on how to make tomato rice :

Tomato rice / Thakkali sadam recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 15 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins    |  Serves: 2

Ingredients

Basmati/long grain rice - 1 cup

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Tomatoes - 3

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Onion - 1 

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Garlic -10-15 flakes 

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Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

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Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp

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Green chillies - 2

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Turmeric - 1/8 tsp

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Salt - as per taste

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Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

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To Temper

Oil - 1 tblsp

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Ghee - 1 tsp

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Mustard - 1/2 tsp 

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Urad dal - 1 tsp

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Channa dal - 2 tsp

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Fennel seeds or cumin seeds(optional) - 1 tsp

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Curry leaves - 1 sprig

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How to make tomato rice step by step method:

1. Wash and soak  basmati rice (or any cooking rice) for 10mins. Pressure cook rice for three whistles in medium flame with 1 & 1/2 cup water. Once pressure is released by itself, transfer the rice to a broad vessel, add a tsp of ghee or sesame oil and let it cool. Separate the grains gently once cooled. You can use left over rice too for this.
2. Heat a kadai with oil,ghee and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add thinly sliced garlic (into cirlces), slit green chillies and give a fry. Then add sliced onion and fry till transparent.
3. Add chopped tomato, add salt and fry until it turns mushy and add the powders-red chilli,garam masala, turmeric and the coriander leaves.
4. Fry till tomatoes gets in to mushy gravy for 4-5 minutes until oil separates but still it remains moist and semi gravy.
5. Now mix this gravy with the cooked rice along with sesame oil or ghee if needed and give atleast some 10 min. standing time.

Serve with raitha or korma...i made it for Aj, so he had with his favorite Broccoli stir fry...



NOTES:

• You can add finely chopped carrots and green peas also...

            This one goes to Srivalli's rice mela!

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