Dream World: January 2014

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Tomato Rice

Ingredients

Tomato puree – 2 cup

Rice – 500 gms

Ginger/garlic paste – 1tblspn

Mint/coriander leaves juice – 1 cup

Grated Coconut – ½ cup

Poppy seeds – 1tblspn (soaked in water)

Cashew – 5 nos

Cumin seeds – ½tblspn

Green chilly – 2 nos

Garlic cloves – 6 nos

Red chilly powder – 1tspn

Cardamom – 4 nos

Cinnamon – 2 pieces

Cloves – 3 nos

Bay leaves – 2 nos

Star anise - 1

Small onions – 6 nos

Big onions (chopped) – 1

Ghee – 2 tblspn

Oil as required

Salt to taste

For Garam Masala

Cloves – 2 nos

Fennel seeds – 1 tblspn

Cardamom – 3 nos

Stone flower – few

Cinnamon – 2 pieces

Nutmeg – 1

Poppy seeds – 1 tspn

Coriander seeds – 1 tblspn

Method

♥ Fry all the dry ingredients for garam masala without oil and grind it all into a fine powder

♥ Grind small onions and green chilly into paste and keep aside

♥ Grind grated coconut, soaked poopy seeds, cashews and cumin seeds into smooth paste

♥ In a cooker, fry star anise, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves in oil

♥ Then add chopped big onions, garlic cloves and red chilly powder and sauté well

♥ Add ginger/garlic paste, onion/chilly paste and sauté until raw smell disappears

♥ Then add coconut/cashews/poppy/cumin seeds paste and sauté for few mins

♥ Now add tomato puree and mint/coriander juice and allow it to boil

♥ Then add rice, salt and water (if necessary)

♥ Add ghee, cover the cooker lid and whistle on and cook for 7 mins in medium flame

♥ Turn off the stove and wait until the pressure release

♥ Open the lid and add 1tspn ghee again and mix the rice well

♥ Serve hot with onion raita

P.S: I have served the tomato rice with meal maker gravy in above picture. I will post its recipe later asap

I spoke less and think more. Once I was fully loaded with negative thoughts and surrounded with people who are meant to less important in my life. There are too many issues on my head right now. At times I feel my brain will overflow due to too much thoughts. I sleep every night with the hope the next day would be brighter. Even I wake up every morning with the feeling that I am gonna make an another day happily. But end up tired of daily routine.

Something was wrong. This isn’t my life. I spent too much time thinking about what has happened really. Trying to translate what I feel. But words failed me. I wondered on whom I was so angry. Was it the sudden change of my friends behavior? Was it because my parents told me to do something that I don’t like? Was it because my little sister didn’t listen what I tried to share with her? Were these reasons big enough to justify what I was feeling?

Why dint I like to go out like others and have fun? Why did I spend all my days in thinking and waste it doing nothing? Why my life didn’t go in the right path like everyone’s? Is it because I depend on my parent’s much? I am clueless.

Is this what everyone call as depression? Somewhere along the lane, I miss the original me. I had stopped loving myself. I am that kind of person who needs support once in a while, someone to say “you did right”, when I lose and encourage me. I lost control of my life. I lost control of my feelings.

I am still in the process of finding the lost me. After too much thinking I concluded to love myself to help in finding the lost happiness in me. For that I need to do what I love more often. I have already started writing here and reminding every positive things in every actions I do. Until now I just found a piece of me :p