Recipe - "Tomato Rice"

"Tomato Rice"

Tomato Rice recipe

 

We had “Tomato Rice” for dinner a few days ago. It was my first attempt cooking it and my family enjoyed it.

I am pleased to share with you the ingredients and procedure here.

Ingredients

2 cups basmati rice

20 gm unsalted butter

2 big brown onions (blended)

1 tsp garlic (finely chopped)

3 cardamom seeds

2 star anise

3 cloves

1 inch cinnamon stick

2 pandan leaves

3 fresh tomato pulps (blended)

3 tbsp tomato puree

½ cube (chicken seasoning)

1 tbsp plain yoghurt

½ tsp salt

Water

Procedure

Rinse and soak basmati rice for 30 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Heat a wok. Add butter. In low heat, saute melted butter with cardamom seeds, star anise, cloves and cinnamon stick till fragrant. Add brown onions. Fry until light brown, add chopped garlic. Fry both onions and garlic till golden brown.

Add blended fresh tomatoes, tomato puree and pandan leaves. Stir for 2 minutes. Sprinkle salt. Add basmati rice. Fry all the ingredients in the wok for another 2 minutes. Lastly add plain yogurt and mix well.

Transfer all the mixture into the electric rice cooker. Add water and let the rice cook.

Instead of having plain white rice, this tomato rice itself goes well as an accompaniment to several dishes.