Tomato Rice: Looking for a quick yet filling main course? This mouth watering one pot recipe is the perfect fit.
Category: Vegetarian main course
Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes
Cooking Time: 5-10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Tomatoes- 5-6 (big sized)
- Onions-2 (big sized)
- Garlic-6 cloves
- Green chilly -3
- Ginger- 5 julienne
- Salt to taste
- Red pepper powder-3/4th tsp
- Garam masala- 3/4th tsp
- Coriander powder- 3/4th tsp
- Kasuri Methi (Dried Fenugreek Leaves)
- Butter- 50gm
- Oil-3 tbsp
- Mustard Seeds- 1 tsp
- Basmati Rice- 3 cups
- Fresh Mint leaves and ginger julienne for garnish.
- Soak the rice in a bowl of water for 30 mins before boiling for enhancing the flavor and reducing it's cooking time.
- Finely chop tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chilly and cut the onion into very thin slices.
- Heat water in a vessel until it come's to boil and add salt as per your taste. Now drain the water from your rice and add the rice into the boiling water. Cook until par boiled and then strain the water.
- In pan heat 3 tbsp oil and add mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chilly. Saute until ginger garlic turns golden.
- Now add your thin slices of onion and 10 gm of butter, cook until golden brown. Add the tomatoes and saute until cooked.
- Add red pepper powder, coriander powder, kasuri methi and garam masala to the tomatoes.
- Now add half of your boiled rice to the mix along with 20gm butter and mix well. Then add the rest of your rice along with 20gm more butter and stir until mixed.
- Serve hot with ginger julienne and fresh mint leaves.
