Tomato rice (simple version). Tomato rice is a simple south Indian rice dish made with lots of tomatoes & spices. It is not a traditional dish so each home or region has their own way of making it. As the name indicates this tomato rice is made using tomatoes alone and no vegetables are used except onion.
It is also known as thakkali sadam I tried tomato rice many times to get the same taste and flavor but never succeeded.
This time around I managed to come very close to that taste which.
Recipe for South Indian style tomato rice.
You can cook Tomato rice (simple version) using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Tomato rice (simple version)
- Prepare 3 glasses of rice.
- It's 4 1/2 glasses of water.
- You need 1 of onion.
- You need 1 of green chilli.
- It's 3-4 of tomatoes.
- It's 1/2 inch of ginger.
- Prepare 3-4 cloves of garlic cloves.
- It's 2 tbsps of ghee.
- Prepare 8-10 of cashew nuts (cleaved).
- It's 1 of bay leaf.
- You need 3/4 tsp of cumin.
- It's 1/4 tsp of turmeric.
- It's as per taste of salt.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of chilli powder.
- Prepare 3/4 tsp of garam masala.
- Prepare for of Spices--.
- Prepare 1/2 of cinnamon bark.
- You need 3 of cloves.
- Prepare 3 of cardamoms.
Recipe with step by step pictures. Whenever I am busy or "read lazy", I ask her to cook this tomato rice with potato or ladies finger roast. I have many of you writing in requesting for kid friendly recipes and regular updates at Kids Zone. Yes, I do want to update both the blogs on a regular basis.
Tomato rice (simple version) instructions
- Soak rice for half an hour..
- Julienne the onion, cut the tomatoes, and slice the green chillies vertically. Make ginger-garlic paste. Powder the spices..
- Toast the cashews in ghee, put them aside..
- To the same pan, add the onion and green chillies. Add the bay leaves too. Let the onions become translucent. Add the ginger garlic paste and the spice mixture. Wait until the onions brown..
- Add tomatoes, turmeric, and salt. Do not mix. Put a lid on the vessel and let it cook until the tomatoes break down completely..
- Add chilli powder, garam masala. Cook for 2 minutes..
- Add water. Let it boil. Then add the rice (after it's drained)..
- Cook for 15 minutes on low flame in a pressure cooker..
- After it's done, add cashew nuts and coriander on top. Cook for another minute. Serve with raita..
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