A classic rice dish flavored with tomato. Also known as thakkali sadam.
Tomato Rice
Course: RiceCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: MediumServings
4
servingsSoak time
20
minutesCooking time
10
minutesA classic rice dish flavored with tomato. Also known as thakkali sadham.
Ingredients
Raw Rice – 2 cups
Tomato – 4 Nos
Onions – 2 Nos
Green Chillies – 2
Fresh Ginger – 1” piece
Garlic Flake – 4 Nos
Cinnamon stick – 1” piece
Cloves – 4 Nos
Cardamom whole – 2 Nos
Sombu (aniseeds) – ½ teaspoon
Bay leaf – few
Turmeric Powder – ½ teaspoon
Red chilli Powder – 1 teaspoon
Oil – 4 tablespoon
Salt – 2 teaspoon
Lemon Juice – 2 teaspoon
Coriander leaves – little for garnishing
Directions
- Wash and soak rice in water for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Meantime, chop the onions, ginger and garlic. Slit the green chillies.
- Add the tomatoes in a vessel and add enough water to cover the tomato. Bring to boil. When it starts boiling, close with a lid. Switch off the stove. Let it cool for sometime.
- Take out the tomato and remove the skin. Put it in a mixie and make tomato puree. Add enough water and make 4 cups of tomato puree.
- In a pressure cooker, pour oil and when it is hot add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, sombu and bay leaves. Fry slightly.
- Add chopped onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies and fry till the onion become transparent.
- Add turmeric, chilli powder and salt. Stir well.
- Drain out water from soaked rice completely and add the rice now. Fry gently till the rice is hot to touch.
- Add tomato puree and lemon juice. Stir gently.
- Pressure cook for two to three whistle.
- When it is cool, open the cooker and garnish the rice with coriander leaves.
Notes
- You can also add fried cashew nuts or cooked green peas to the above.
- Our reader Abi advised to try this recipe with V8 canned tomato juice and informed that it comes out really good and healthy for kids too.
Any reason to peel tomato skin? More work 🙂 unless it affects the taste. Your thoughts!!
Hi Arun,
It will not affect the taste. If you remove the skin, the rice will be smooth without any skin.
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What an encouraging comment Arun. Thank you very much.
Very very nice.
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kamala ma ,
First thing i should thank you so much for taking an effort to create this kamala corner site. every night i check your site for kolam preparation as well as for recipes .
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thank you so much ma . it would be so nice of you if you could share the pooja methods too.
I agree with sophia above.Your site is god's gift to people who are just starting to cook like me.Thank you very much.Iam trying tomato rice today.Brinji came out excellent…
Hi Arati,
Thank you for visiting my blog. Nice to hear that Brinji Rice came out well.
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Thank you for your kind comment Sangeetha.
Thanks for posting such a wonderful recipe. Recently only I came to know about your website and started trying many recipes. All are great with no flaws.
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Welcome to blog Hema. Thank you for your kind words.
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Thank you for visiting my site and your kind comments. Please try the recipes and let me know your feed back.
Hi Kamala
Tried this recipe last week and it was an instant hit among my family members..infact my sisters hav taken the recipe and want to try it in their homes..thank u so much Kamala..though i hav tried other recipes this has come out so well and it s so easy to make…will try ur other recipes soon..they all look so delicious..THANK U SO MUCH
Thank you Raji Sri Ram for your kind feed back. It really encourage me so much.
i need some clarity. as i messed up after adding rice – it got stick alot in cooker itself though i stirred gently – any tips to avoid sticking to cooker.
Taste i have never got this before – excellent though slight sticky smell.
Hi Muthu,
Stickiness may be due to the quality of rice you used. Also the tomato puree may be too thick. If you find the tomato puree very thick, then you can reduce the puree and add water to make it to a flowing consistency. Normally when you slightly fry the rice, that itself prevent sticking. Also adding lemon juice will separate the rice grains apart from giving taste. Try with good quality Basmati Rice and let me know the outcome.
hi.. tried this recipe yesterday and it was tasty. you are doing great job and thanks for the recipe 🙂
Thank you Sana.
Hi everyone,
Try this recipe with V8 canned tomato juice, it comes out really good and healthy for kids too….
Abi
Thank you Abi for your kind information. I will add this info into the recipe post itself.
Thanks for acknowledging…..
Tried it this afternoon. It came out awesome. You are the best. Thank you
Thank you the feed back Aparna.
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Your recipes are really awesome. I don’t know cooking earlier. Now i do better cooking after learning it from your site. I tried keerai kootu as per your instruction. It came out really good. Thanks a lot.
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I have tried tomato rice for my husband’s lunch box.It just cameout really very tasty.I cant wait till lunch,so that I ate it as breakfast.
Thank u somuch for ur recepies..
Thank you Saroo for your feed back.
Hello Kamalaji,
Tried a few recipe from the wonderful site you started.All of them turned awesome. Lots of efforts taken. thank you so much.
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Thank you Jyotsna for your kind words.
Hi,
I have tried this and it was great. My husband loved it. Thanks a lot.
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Omg !!! This is such a long recipe. Will take so much time. I dont boil n peel tomatoes. Just put all in a blender raw…not onions.then onions, curry leaves,and the gravy fry in oil.add rice and cook. That’s it.yummy tomato rice ready. Good luck
Thank you Niks for sharing your recipe. Will try it soon.
Nice recipe. I am going to try this today. I am learning many new recipes from your website. Thank you for giving us nice recipes..
Thank you. Pl try and let us know your feed back.
Hi Kamala Aunty,
I tried this dish today the result was too good. I have clicked the photo of it , but i cud not post on FB ..
My Hubby just enjoyed this dish and appreciated me a lot 🙂
Thank you…..
Thank you for your kind feedback.
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Thank you Angelin.
Hai aunty,
i cooked this tomato rice and i packed it for lunch to my kid.he liked it very much.it really came out well.thank you for this special receipe.could i request you to post some additional healthy variety rices for kids?
Thank you for your kind feed back. I have already posted some simple rice varieties like “Jeera Rice”, “Greens Rice” etc. Check under “Rice Varieties” category in our website.
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Hi kamala madam,
I tried this recipe its came out very well.. My inlaws greeting for me…thank u so much to sharing this recipe with us..
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