Tomato Rice By nithyavaidya

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Tomato Rice, a chawal preparation with tomato puree as the base. The sweet and tangy tomato flavor embodies the pulao and tastes excellent when served with any vegetable or meat gravy.

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Preparation Time: 25 mts Cooking Time: 15 mts Total Time: 0 mins 4
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Ingredients

1 cup rice (chawal)
1/4 kg chopped tomatoes
1 bayleaf (tejpatta)
1 stick of cinnamon (dalchini)
2 pods of cardamom (elaichi)
1 tsp coriander (dhania) seeds
1/2 tsp fennel seeds (saunf)
small piece of ginger (adrak)
2 pcs of coconut
2 onions, finely chopped
7 cloves of garlic (lehsun)
2 green chillies
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tbsp oil
1 tsp salt
curry leaves (kadi patta) and coriander (dhania) leaves for garnishing

Method

Wash rice and keep separately.strain rice in strainer.
Then grind coriander seeds,ginger, coconut,saunf,1/2 of choped onion in a mixie.
Then in a pressure pan pour oil fry cardomon, cinnamon, bayleaf,g.chilli lateron put onion and garlic.
Fry them till translucent. later on add choped tomatoes.
When tomato shrinks add the grinded mixture and stir the mixture later on add salt and rice pour 2 cups of water and cover the lid of cooker.
When whistle comes stop. this rice is transfered to a plate and can be garnished with coriander leaves.
This goes good with onion and cucumber raithas.
For raitha take thick curd.
To curd add finely choped onion , cucumber add little salt.