Tomato Rice(Thakkali Sadam) Recipe
Tomato Rice is simple, delicious and flavorful dish from the Tamil Nadu. It is also known as Thakkali Sadam in Tamil language. This can be made very easily for lunch boxes in the busy mornings.The left over rice from the previous day can be used for making this recipe.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 2 cups Cooked Rice (basmati rice or short grain rice)
- 3 Tomatos , chopped
- 1 Onion, chopped
- 1 Green chilli, slits
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- 6 Garlic, chopped finely
- 2 tsp Salt adjust to taste
- 1 tsp Red chilli powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric
Tempering
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds or Jeera
- 1 tsp Urad dal
- 1 tsp Channa dal
- 12-14 Cashew nuts
- 1 Sprig Curry leaves
- 4 Red chilles
Instructions
- In a heavy pan or kadai heat 2 tbsp oil, add mustard seeds and saute till mustard seeds crackle.
- Then add red chillies, jeera, urad dal, channa dal, cashew nuts and curry leafs and saute until light golden brown.
- Add chopped garlic and saute for 1min. Then Add chopped onions, salt, turmeric and fry until onions are transparent.
- Add chilli powder and saute for 1 min and add finely chopped tomatos, salt to taste, slit green chilles
- Add 1/2 cup of water and cook until tomatos are mushy.
- Loosen the rice with a fork or your fingers and add to the cooked tomato masala.
- Lightly mix so that the rice doesn’t break and cook covered for a couple of minutes for the rice to heat through.
- Add 1 tbsp ghee to the tomato rice and mix well. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.