I love tomato rice 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 teach me how to make a decent tomato rice. Now a days I can proudly say I make tasty tomato rice. Once when I made this tomato rice, 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 tomato rice a lot. So make sure always add it. Below is the video on how to make tomato rice :
Tomato rice / Thakkali sadam recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Serves: 2
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Serves: 2
Ingredients
Basmati/long grain rice – 1 cup
Tomatoes – 3
Onion – 1
Garlic -10-15 flakes
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp
Green chillies – 2
Turmeric – 1/8 tsp
Salt – as per taste
Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp
Tomatoes – 3
Onion – 1
Garlic -10-15 flakes
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp
Green chillies – 2
Turmeric – 1/8 tsp
Salt – as per taste
Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp
To Temper
Oil – 1 tblsp
Ghee – 1 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Channa dal – 2 tsp
Fennel seeds or cumin seeds(optional) – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Ghee – 1 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Channa dal – 2 tsp
Fennel seeds or cumin seeds(optional) – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
How to make tomato rice step by step method:
- Wash and soak basmati rice (or any cooking rice) for 10mins. Pressure cook rice for three whistles in medium flame with 1 & 1/2 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…
NOTES:
- You can add finely chopped carrots and green peas also…
This one goes to Srivalli’s rice mela!
Happy cook
November 28, 2008 at 1:00 pmWOW beautiful rice, love the colour and the picture
RAKS KITCHEN
November 28, 2008 at 1:02 pmThanx for that quick comment,now I don’t miss Asha;D
Kajal
November 28, 2008 at 3:11 pmWhat 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
anudivya
November 28, 2008 at 8:18 pmWhat a pretty color and picture! Lovely…
n33ma
November 28, 2008 at 10:44 pmBeautiful color…..especially love the first pic.
Cham
November 29, 2008 at 6:11 amI love the 1 rst picture, beautifully captured
jeyashrisuresh
November 29, 2008 at 6:35 amWow beautiful pic.btw what brand of basmati rice u normally use.
Nags
November 29, 2008 at 10:52 ami sent a tomato rice for the mela too, recipe is slightly different though. love the first pic 🙂
Kitchen Flavours
November 29, 2008 at 12:20 pmWow this looks absolutely delish. Love the color and awesome pics.
DEESHA
November 29, 2008 at 12:52 pmlooks lovely .. its got a beautiful color
Priya
November 29, 2008 at 10:24 pmWow wat a lovely presentation…eyecatching colour..
Viki Xavier.
November 30, 2008 at 1:25 amLovely tomato rice. Pictures are very very cute:)
RAKS KITCHEN
November 30, 2008 at 4:17 amJeyashri,
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:)
Daily Meals
November 30, 2008 at 4:51 amLooks colourful…nice recipe…
Jaishree
November 30, 2008 at 7:16 amTomato Rice looks lovely.. Pretty colour & beautiful pic..
jeyashrisuresh
November 30, 2008 at 7:35 amno 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.
Kaitlin
November 30, 2008 at 10:52 pmyumm im craving some starch and that looks SO good!
anu
December 1, 2008 at 8:09 pmsuperb….yummy yummy
Srivalli
December 4, 2008 at 4:11 amRaji ..the first picture looks great!
Uj
December 4, 2008 at 12:50 pmlooks beautiful…wellcaptured
bindiya
December 4, 2008 at 3:54 pmlovely pic, must compliment you!rice looks yumm!!
delhibelle
December 8, 2008 at 4:49 pmsuch a lovely colour, this must have been yummy
Keerthana
December 13, 2008 at 11:16 amI found this recipe on Srivalli’s rice mela round up. Tomato rice looks lovely, great pics too!
Sophie
January 11, 2009 at 3:24 pmI’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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Divya Babrekar
January 30, 2012 at 3:24 pmHi Raks,
Made this for lunch today and it was yummy!! 🙂 loved this version without coconut!thank you
Sandhya Raman
August 31, 2012 at 7:16 pmOne of my favourite rice variety…Nicely presented as usual.Can try adding boiled peas/corn.I tried and it tasted well.
Sandhya Raman
August 31, 2012 at 7:16 pmOne of my favourites…lovely presentation..
Boiled corns/peas adds good flavour and colour.
RAKS KITCHEN
August 31, 2012 at 7:21 pmYa you are right, I do it in my tomato pulao recipe… 🙂
Ritu
September 20, 2012 at 2:01 amI tried this., it looks great and its yummy. Thank you
Ritu
September 20, 2012 at 2:01 amI tried it.. its yummy.. thank you
Ratna Seethala
November 6, 2012 at 8:14 amSusmita
I tried this recipe . It is so delicious. All my friends and relatives liked it too.
Sowmya D.S.L
February 6, 2013 at 4:15 pmmaking it for lunch now 🙂 I tried many recipes from ur blog before.. it came out so well and my hubby loved it too 🙂
kayathri u
April 3, 2013 at 3:03 amnice recipie….
kayathri u
April 3, 2013 at 2:14 pmnice
Shaveta
July 25, 2013 at 1:30 amIt came out very yummy…….tried tody:)
Jyothi A
February 17, 2014 at 1:29 pmHello… you didnt mentioned when to add garlic
Raks anand
February 17, 2014 at 1:36 pmRead the *2nd step*
Jyothi A
February 19, 2014 at 9:06 amThank you ji….
Prathima Domakonda
May 31, 2014 at 2:57 amLooks Very Colorful.. Nice one:)
Catapult
June 17, 2014 at 6:46 amCame out pretty well! Thank u 🙂
Well maintained website with beautiful snaps of step by step making.. Rockin Rakskitchen
Renuka Ambbarees
August 25, 2014 at 1:16 pmI tried this. So tasty. .done well. Thanks
Safina Mubarak
December 14, 2014 at 1:38 pmFr 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
Unknown
October 1, 2015 at 8:21 amHi raks if u add 2 tsp of fenugreek seeds to this recipe it would give nice flavour
Vijayakumar Shanmugam
November 24, 2015 at 8:23 amI tried in ponni rice only excellent result
thanks
Anders Svensson
February 17, 2016 at 9:50 amI 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.
AMRITA P
May 4, 2016 at 1:20 pmIt was lovely…. I tried n come out well… Thank you mam
Sri Amudha S
October 13, 2016 at 6:22 amWhat 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!
Anonymous
April 20, 2017 at 1:38 amHi 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!