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Tomato Rice (Thakkali Sadam)
Prep Time : 20 mins
Cook Time : 20 mins
Total Time : 40 mins
Ingredients
For soaking rice
- 1 heaped cup basmati rice or any regular rice
- water as required
More ingredients
- 1 cup finely chopped tomatoes (tightly packed) or 3 medium to large tomatoes or 200 grams
- ⅓ cup finely chopped onions or 1 medium-sized onion
- 1.5 teaspoons Ginger Garlic Paste or 1 inch ginger + 5 to 6 small to medium garlic crushed in mortar-pestle
- ½ teaspoon chopped green chilli or serrano pepper or 1 green chilli
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 4 to 5 fenugreek seeds (methi seeds) – optional
- ½ inch true cinnamon
- 2 green cardamoms
- 2 to 3 cloves
- 6 to 7 curry leaves (medium-sized)
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper powder or crushed black pepper
- ½ teaspoon Coriander Powder (ground coriander)
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder (ground cumin)
- ½ tablespoon chopped mint leaves
- ¼ cup chopped coriander leaves (cilantro)
- 1.5 to 1.75 cups water or add as required
- 2 tablespoons oil – any neutral oil
- salt as required
Instructions
Preparation
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Rinse basmati rice or any regular rice for a couple of times in water.
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Then soak the rice in water for 20 to 30 minutes. Later drain the rice and keep aside.
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Chop the tomatoes, onions and green chillies finely. Peel and crush the ginger-garlic in a mortar pestle. Also, chop the mint and coriander leaves
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Keep aside all the spices required for the rice.
Sautéing onions, tomatoes, spices
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In a 3 litre pressure cooker, heat the oil. Keep the flame to a low and add mustard seeds and crackle them. Then add fenugreek seeds and just lightly fry for a couple of seconds without burning them.
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Then add finely chopped onions and cinnamon, cardamoms and cloves.
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Stir and sauté until the onions turn translucent and soften.
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Add the ginger-garlic paste, chopped green chilies and curry leaves.
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Stir and sauté for some seconds until the raw aroma of ginger-garlic goes away
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Now add chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves.
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Stir and saute for a minute.
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Keep heat to a low or switch off the heat. Add the finely chopped tomatoes and turmeric powder, red chilli powder, black pepper powder or crushed black pepper, coriander powder and cumin powder.
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Mix very well and sauté the tomatoes until they soften and become pulpy with oil releasing from the sides.
Cooking tomato rice
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Add the soaked rice. Gently mix the rice with the tomato mixture very well. Sauté for a minute.
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Add 1.75 cups water. For a more softer consistency in the rice, you can also add 2 cups water.
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Season with salt as per taste.
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Cover and pressure cook tomato rice for 2 whistles on medium flame or about 10 to 11 minutes. To get a softer rice, you can also pressure cook for 3 whistles.
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When the pressure settles down on its own. Then remove the lid and gently fluff the tomato rice.
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Serve tomato rice with appalams or chips or with a side raita.