Monday, June 11, 2007

Tomato Pulav


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At my kitchen for our lunch its mostly rice, sambar and one dry curry with vegetables. Some days when I am not in a mood to make sambar its one pot meal. So today being one of those days, for our mid-day lunch I had made a very simple tomato rice.

I usualy make tomato rice by adding chopped tomatos and onion with some spices. Today for the first time I tried making tomato pulav by pureering/juicing tomatoes and added fennel seeds while tempering. It was delicious with mild tomato taste with sweet smell of fennel.

Ingredients:
  • Tomato - 1 big Puree it using blender
  • Onion - 1 medium( thinly chopped)
  • Green chillies - 1 to 2
For tempering :
  • Oil - 2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Fennel seeds - 1tsp
  • Cloves and cinammon - 2 each
For Garnishing:
  • 1 tsp - ghee
  • 2 tbsp- cashew nuts
  • 2 tbsp - corriender leaves chopped.
Method :
  • Wash and soak rice (Basmati rice) for about 10 mins . This will allow rice to cook fastly when making on stove top. If using pressure cooker skip this step.
  • Heat oil in a thick bottemed pan. When its hot add mustard and fennel seeds, cinammon - cloves. Then add chopped green chilles and onion, fry for few mins.
  • Then add purrred tomotoes and add salt. Bring it to a boil then add enough water required for rice to cook ( I used 1 cup rice so added 2 cups of water + 1/2 cup of tomato puree) .
  • When it starts to boil add rice, mix well adjust salt and spice ( want more spice add red chilli powder) and cover and simmer and cook for 10 - 12 mins.
  • Now do the garnishing, add chopped corriender leaves and cashew nuts, roasted in ghee. Let the rice cool for 5 mins or so the add the roasted nuts and mix well
To go with it I made onion, cucumber, carrot pachadi/raitha. To make the taste bit different I added a pinch or Black salt (which is slightly tangy and salty in taste). Mixed along with salt and pepper. Simple and yet delicious lunch.

Enjoy!

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