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