Tomato rice, thakkali sadam recipe – a flavorful variety goes well with just fryums/ vadams or a simple potato curry. Perfect for weekends or to make a quick lunch.
I love thakkali sadam a lot. Initially I never got it right when I tried to make. Either I will over cook the rice or wont cook this tomato paste to be mixed with rice properly. So the taste wont be perfect. Then experience taught me how to make a decent one. Check out my thakkali kuzhambu
Now a days I can proudly say I make tasty tomato rice. Once when I made this, I could see my MIL like this one and asked to make it the same way other day too. I felt really happy for the first time that day when I knew I too can cook properly as it was my beginning stage in cooking. I like the garlic flavor in this a lot. So make sure always add it.
Tomato rice recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 3 Tomatoes
- 1 Onion
- 15 Garlic small cloves/ flakes
- 1 tsp Red chilli powder
- ½ tsp Garam masala powder
- 2 Green chillies
- ⅛ tsp Turmeric
- Salt as per taste
- 1 tbsp Coriander leaves
To Temper
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Ghee
- ½ tsp Mustard
- 1 tsp Urad dal
- 2 tsp Chana dal
- 1 tsp Fennel seeds or cumin seeds optional
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Wash and soak basmati rice (or any cooking rice) for 10 mins. Pressure cook rice for three whistles in medium flame with 1 & ½ cup water. Once pressure is released by itself, transfer the rice to a broad vessel, add a tsp of ghee or sesame oil and let it cool. Separate the grains gently once cooled. You can use left over rice too for this.
- Heat a kadai with oil,ghee and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add thinly sliced garlic (into cirlces), slit green chillies and give a fry. Then add sliced onion and fry till transparent.
- Add chopped tomato, add salt and fry until it turns mushy and add the powders-red chilli, garam masala, turmeric and the coriander leaves.
- Fry till tomatoes gets in to mushy gravy for 4-5 minutes until oil separates but still it remains moist and semi gravy.
- Now mix this gravy with the cooked rice along with sesame oil or ghee if needed and give atleast some 10 min. standing time.
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Notes
- You can add finely chopped carrots and green peas also...
How to make tomato rice step by step method:
- Wash and soak basmati rice (or any cooking rice) for 10 mins. Pressure cook rice for three whistles in medium flame with 1 & ½ cup water. Once pressure is released by itself, transfer the rice to a broad vessel, add a tsp of ghee or sesame oil and let it cool. Separate the grains gently once cooled. You can use left over rice too for this.
- Heat a kadai with oil,ghee and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add thinly sliced garlic (into cirlces), slit green chillies and give a fry. Then add sliced onion and fry till transparent.
- Add chopped tomato, add salt and fry until it turns mushy and add the powders-red chilli, garam masala, turmeric and the coriander leaves.
- Fry till tomatoes gets in to mushy gravy for 4-5 minutes until oil separates but still it remains moist and semi gravy.
- Now mix this gravy with the cooked rice along with sesame oil or ghee if needed and give atleast some 10 min. standing time.
Serve with raitha or korma…i made it for Aj, so he had with his favorite Broccoli stir fry…
This one goes to Srivalli’s rice mela!
WOW beautiful rice, love the colour and the picture
Thanx for that quick comment,now I don’t miss Asha;D
What a nice dish of rice with nice color too and i love your rav dosa this is my favorite dish of south indian. Thanks for your comment. I don’t know who is he and how he is take all my recipe and photos without knowing me. Thanks again.
Have a cheerful day!!!
Kajal
What a pretty color and picture! Lovely…
Beautiful color…..especially love the first pic.
I love the 1 rst picture, beautifully captured
Wow beautiful pic.btw what brand of basmati rice u normally use.
i sent a tomato rice for the mela too, recipe is slightly different though. love the first pic 🙂
Wow this looks absolutely delish. Love the color and awesome pics.
looks lovely .. its got a beautiful color
Wow wat a lovely presentation…eyecatching colour..
Lovely tomato rice. Pictures are very very cute:)
Jeyashri,
After trying somany brands available I am now sticking to buy DAAWAT 🙂
Are you having a blog spot or you just comment,I can see you around in this blogsphere:)
Looks colourful…nice recipe…
Tomato Rice looks lovely.. Pretty colour & beautiful pic..
no i dont have a blog. i m bit lazy and quite busy with my 2 kids,the younger one is little naughty.i too tried so many bands.not good,will try this.i just comment from my google account.
yumm im craving some starch and that looks SO good!
superb….yummy yummy
Raji ..the first picture looks great!
looks beautiful…wellcaptured
lovely pic, must compliment you!rice looks yumm!!
such a lovely colour, this must have been yummy
I found this recipe on Srivalli’s rice mela round up. Tomato rice looks lovely, great pics too!
I’ve made a tomato rice dish before, but never with these unique ingredients. I be they really enhance the flavor :)! I’d like to share your recipe with our readers :). Please let me know if you’re interested!
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Hi Raks,
Made this for lunch today and it was yummy!! 🙂 loved this version without coconut!thank you
One of my favourite rice variety…Nicely presented as usual.Can try adding boiled peas/corn.I tried and it tasted well.
One of my favourites…lovely presentation..
Boiled corns/peas adds good flavour and colour.
Ya you are right, I do it in my tomato pulao recipe… 🙂
I tried this., it looks great and its yummy. Thank you
I tried it.. its yummy.. thank you
Susmita
I tried this recipe . It is so delicious. All my friends and relatives liked it too.
making it for lunch now 🙂 I tried many recipes from ur blog before.. it came out so well and my hubby loved it too 🙂
nice recipie….
nice
It came out very yummy…….tried tody:)
Hello… you didnt mentioned when to add garlic
Read the *2nd step*
Thank you ji….
Looks Very Colorful.. Nice one:)
Came out pretty well! Thank u 🙂
Well maintained website with beautiful snaps of step by step making.. Rockin Rakskitchen
I tried this. So tasty. .done well. Thanks
Fr a non veg cookers lik me tomato s lik oddone out ..nvr had dis rice in past 20yrs r none in my hme evn thnk f dng … Bt jus wantd to tryout fr my hubby's lunch pak… It realy gav me gud hopedat my hubby ll lov it…thanx fr all de receips raks..bcoz f u m dng grt in kitchen.(everyonethnks its all my hand receipe)..;))n m maintainin de secret)lolzz ;))… Thanks raks
Hi raks if u add 2 tsp of fenugreek seeds to this recipe it would give nice flavour
I tried in ponni rice only excellent result
thanks
I have made a tomato rice dish before, but never with these unique ingredients. I would like to share this recipe with our friends. Thanks for sharing great recipe.
It was lovely…. I tried n come out well… Thank you mam
What a beautiful dish!!! I did it for the first time. Turned out yum! Thank you so much! I have become a fan of your's!
Hi Rajeswari, thanks for the beautiful recipe! I'm curious, do the urad dal and chana dal get cooked in the liquid of the tomatoes, or should they be cooked prior to adding? Thanks!