tomato rice

Ingredients:

1.Cooked rice – 4 cups

2.Tomato – 5 no

3.Onion – 1 no

4.Green chilli – 2 no

5.Ginger – small piece

6.Turmeric – ¼ tea spoon

7.Red chilli powder – ½ tea spoon

8.Coriander powder – ½ tea spoon

9.Salt – as per taste

For seasoning

1Bengal gram – 1 tea spoon

2.Urad dal – ½ tea spoon

3.Mustard – ½ tea spoon

4Red chilli – 2 no

5.Asafoetida – 2 pinch

6Curry and coriander leaves – few

7.Sesame oil/ any other oil – 2 tea spoon

 method of preparation:

1.Cook rice, as such the cooked grains are separated well and not sticky

2.Chop onion, tomato, ginger, green chilli, curry and coriander leaves.

3.Heat a pan with oil , add mustard, then Bengal gram, urad dal, asafetida, broken red chilli; then add chopped curry, coriander leaves; add onion, ginger,  green chilli chopped; fry till onion is transparent.

4.Add chopped tomatoes, fry for 2 minutes; add all dry powders given and salt; cook until tomatoes are soft and mashed with spatula

5.Add cooked rice, mix well gently.Garnish with tomatoes and coriander leaves

6.serve with Raita and papad.