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Tomato Rice & Comfort Food Series

Tomato Rice is a delicious combination of Indian and Mexican flavors which come together to create the perfect comfort food option!

We all need some comfort food occasionally (especially that which can be cooked quickly too!) and this tomato rice sure is one of them for me 🙂

Tomato Rice

 

Its time for Blog Hop Wednesday and while I was browsing through the blog assigned to me for this week, I realised how we pick some recipes instantly and some just don’t even give it a chance. While I was thinking, my thoughts wandered away (hello don’t you say whats new now!) to comfort food.

Don’t we all have comfort food? That food we turn to when we are upset and that food we turn to when we are happy. Food that give us comfort. Somewhere high up in the list of comfort food comes spicy tomato rice and raita for me. I realised I don’t have the recipe of that up on the blog. In fact, after digging through the blog a little, I realised, I hardly have recipes of any of my comfort food up on the blog. So this will be the first post in comfort food series that hopefully I will be doing.

I tried the tomato rice version on Ammu’s blog for today for dinner and it turned out pretty yum. A little strange but nonetheless yum, strange because it nicely balances the Mexican flavors of jalapenos and olive oil with Indian masalas. I served it with the burnt garlic chutney and boondi raita. The combination turned out to be awesome. A super simple but yet hurried veg meal, for a day when I don’t feel like doing anything elaborate and idea is to get something on the table fast and quick, this is perfect!

 

 

Recipe – Tomato Rice (adapted from Ammu’s Kitchen)

Tomato Rice & Comfort Food Series

Tomato Rice is a delicious combination of Indian and Mexican flavors which come together to create the perfect comfort food option! 
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Course Main Dish
Cuisine global vegetarian

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Cups rice cooked (I used basmati)
  • 1 onions chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
  • 1 chillis green sliced
  • 1 tsp pickled jalapenos chopped
  • 2 Cups tomatoes diced
  • 2 Tsps cumin coriander powder
  • cilantro for garnish
  • handful mint leaves
  • 1 Tsp olive oil
  • 1 Tsp jeera
  • to taste salt
  • pinch turmeric

Instructions
 

  • Heat a pan with oil add jeera to it. Fry till it browns a little.
  • Add garlic and chillis. Fry them till garlic is turns a little brown.
  • Add onions to pan and fry it till they turned transparent.
  • Add a couple of mashed mint leaves and fry for one minute.
  • Add tomatoes along with salt and allow them to cook with a closed lid for about 5-6 minutes till they are soft and mushy.
  • Add the jalapenos at this stage along with other masalas. Mix tomato mixture carefully to rice without breaking it & garnish with cilantro and mint leaves.
  • Serve hot.

Notes

 
 
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Comments

  1. Sumee says

    December 1, 2011 at 2:51 am

    tomato rice looks good.. rice dishes are always comforting isn’t it. 🙂

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  2. Dhivya says

    December 1, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Yummy Rice

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  3. Kalyani says

    December 1, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    looks super good ! excellent clicks dear !

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  4. Priya Sreeram says

    December 1, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    good one and am always in for comfort dishes !!

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  5. Priyanka says

    December 2, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Yummy recipe….honestly I have never tried a good tomato rice..
    But I wanna try your recipe 🙂

    Reply
  6. sakshi says

    December 3, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    I love those cute little bowls. Burnt Garlic Chutney? now that is something I am pretty sure I will love. Have to try it pronto!

    Reply
  7. Siri says

    December 9, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Ooooooh! all my left over rice becomes either tomato rice or ghee rice :-). Comfort food indeed.

    Siri

    Reply
  8. Fatema says

    March 26, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    Made this for my daughter today and loved the flavor !!

    Reply
  9. Anders Svensson says

    February 15, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Delicious recipe. Trust me I have never made this recipe. Since this recipe is seen, I wana try your recipe soon. Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  10. Malin Andersson says

    March 9, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    I love this recipe. It is very easy to understand. It takes only 10 to 15 minutes to prepare. All the recipe photographs are looking amazing. It’s great information about tomato rice recipe. I just made it last night followed by your given methods. The recipe was exactly too delicious. Thank you so much for sharing. To Know More: http://bit.ly/1TL0iXF

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Monika is an ex-IT person turned into a food blogger, consultant, home baker and an amateur food photographer. She loves music, writing, food, and travel, but not necessarily in that order ;)

Sin-A-Mon Tales is a canvas for her food memories. Apart from Sin -A- Mon Tales, Monika also writes for many online websites and publications. She's an avid reader and can always be found with a book in her bag, which mostly is as bright as her. She's an obsessive traveler and is always looking for the next food story. Read More…

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