Tomato Rice

OMG its a week already! Most of you would have been wondering why I was missing for quite some time and why there wasn't a posts too. Life completely gets busy when there is a new entry in life. Yup! My sister delivered a cute little princess on Valentines day. A lovable girl indeed! :) 

The tiny tot is keeping all of us at home on our feet all the time. I mean it. Little did I know that there would be so much of attention needed for a kid! Oh but I am loving this. I am running around happily buying things for her, cleaning her potty and playing with her :) She is really the princess of the house now :)

So that's the very reason I couldn't compose a post for my blog. Now that she has given me some time, here I come with a simple comforting tomato rice and the base mix for it. 

The simple spice mixed of saunf and cinnamon with tomato would make it really delicious and the rice mix can be stored in the fridge for almost 10 days and used. Make life simple when you need to pack lunch boxes. :)

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 5

Green chilies - 4

Garlic pods - 15

Curry leaves 

Saunf - 1 tblsp

Cinnamon - 1/2 inch piece

Channa dhall - 1 tsp

Urad dhall - 1 tsp

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Salt - for taste

Method:

Step 1: Dice tomatoes into small cubes and peel the garlic pods. 

Step 2: Split the green chilies lengthwise. 

Step 3: Powder the saunf and cinnamon coarsely. 

Step 4: Take 2 tbsp of oil in a sauce pan and crackle mustard, channa dhall and urad dhall. 

Step 5: Add the green chillies and curry leaves and saute for a min. Now add the ground saunf and cinnamon powder.

Step 6: Now drop in the diced tomatoes, garlic pods and saute in low flame until it gets cooked and becomes thick. Tomato rice mix is ready. 

Step 7: Cook rice with exact measure of water and add 2 tbsp of ghee to it. Separate the grains. 

Step 8: Now add this rice mix to the rice and mix well. Serve hot with potato chips. 

Written by: Nithya
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