tomato rice step by step recipe /easy thakkali sadam for lunch
tomato rice step by step recipe /easy thakkali sadam for lunch
Tomatoes are versatile inevitable ingredient used in day-to-day Indian cooking. In each home there will be a varied variations made with thakkali sadam. This is one of my variation of tomato rice that I usually do in my home when i am in a hurry.I remember my amma too making the same type of tomato rice with same taste exactly.As my amma was a busy working women those days these kind of simple recipes came handy and helped her a lot to save time. 
Its a suitable lunch-box item to pack for your children.But,many children will not like the threads of tomatoes in the rice. In that case you can grind the tomatoes and cook instead of chopping. I don’t like to add garlic without chopping,fine chopping makes it to blend with the sauce. You can make the sauce well in advance and store it in fridge. Take out and mix up with boiled rice and use it whenever needed.Do try this easy tomato rice step by step recipe for sure,you will definitely love it.
tomato rice step by step recipe /easy thakkali sadam for lunch
INGREDIENTS:
Tomatoes – 4-5 medium tomatoes chopped(normal country variety)
Chopped big onions – 2-3 tbsp
Chopped garlic – 1 tbsp(finely)
Salt to taste
Chilli powder/milagai thol – 11/4 tsp
Coriander powder/dhania thool – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder/manjal thool – 1/2 tsp
Some curry leaves
Mustard seeds/kadugu – 1 tsp
Dry red chillies /kaintha milaga – 1-2
Gingelly oil /nallenai – 2 tbsp and some more as needed
METHOD:
1. Prepare the chopping and ingredients ready.
2.Keep a kadai add gingelly oil and when it heats up add mustard to splutter,then add broken red chillies and curry leaves.
3.Then add chopped garlic and let it become golden then add the onions to become translucent.
4.Add chilli,turmeric and coriander powder,saute well till rawness of the powder goes away.
5.Now add tomatoes with needed salt,stir well and close lid(keep the flame medium).
6.The water oozes and cooks in its own juices.
7.Open the lid,mash and keep the flame in normal,stir till all the contents dries up and oil oozes.
8.When oil oozes switch off the stove and its now ready to be mixed up with rice.
9.Keep the cooked rice ready mixing up with little gingelly oil to it.
10.Now add the tomato mixture,mix well and serve.
tomato rice step by step recipe /easy thakkali sadam for lunch
Ingredients
- Tomatoes - 4-5 medium tomatoes chopped normal country variety
- Chopped big onions - 2-3 tbsp
- Chopped garlic - 1 tbsp finely
- Salt to taste
- Chilli powder/milagai thol - 11/4 tsp
- Coriander powder/dhania thool - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder/manjal thool - 1/2 tsp
- Some curry leaves
- Mustard seeds/kadugu - 1 tsp
- Dry red chillies /kaintha milaga - 1-2
- Gingelly oil /nallenai - 2 tbsp and some more as needed
Instructions
- Prepare the chopping and ingredients ready.
- Keep a kadai add gingelly oil and when it heats up add mustard to splutter,then add broken red chillies and curry leaves.
- Then add chopped garlic and let it become golden then add the onions to become translucent.
- Add chilli,turmeric and coriander powder,saute well till rawness of the powder goes away.
- Now add tomatoes with needed salt,stir well and close lid(keep the flame medium).
- The water oozes and cooks in its own juices.
- Open the lid and keep the flame in normal,stir till all the contents dries up and oil oozes.
- When oil oozes switch off the stove and its now ready to be mixed up with rice.
- Keep the cooked rice ready mixing up with little gingelly oil to it.
- Now add the tomato mixture,mix well and serve.
Notes
You can fine chop tomatoes so that it nicely blends with rice,even you can grind and add if you wish.
I have used normal rice but you can make it with any aromatic rice like basmati or zeeraga samba.
I have added little gingelly oil to cooked rice to get the grains of rice separated and puff up the rice.
Other variety rice in my blog:
