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Tomato rice is a classic south Indian rice dish made with tomatoes and spices, everyone will have some kind of childhood memories associated with this dish. Thakkali sadam is most sort rice dish that is prepared to pack for school / work lunch. Tomato rice is super simple to make as it involves a tomato base gravy which is mixed with pre cooked rice and the whole dish is done under 30 minutes.
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A classic south indian variety rice made with tomatoes and spices.
Servings: 3
Ingredients
To cook rice
- 1 cup Rice Basmati / Seera Sambar / Pachai arisi
- 2 cups Water
To temper
- 3 tablespoon Oil
- 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon Bengal gram / Kadala paruppu
- 1/2 teaspoon Split Black gram / ullundu
- 1/2 teaspoon Fennel seeds / Sombu
- 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- 5 leaves Curry leaves
To saute
- 1 cup Onion thinly sliced
- 4 large Tomato roughly 2 cups
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic paste
- 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon Red Chili powder spicy variety
- 2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala powder optional, read notes***
- 1/4 teaspoon Jaggery optional, read notes***
Instructions
To cook rice
- Wash and rinse raw rice and soak for 10 minutes.
- Take rice and water in a pressure cooker and cook over high flame for up to 2 whistles and switch off.
- Once the pressure settles, spread over a plate and let it cool down a bit.
- You may use any leftover cooked rice for this recipe instead of cooking a fresh batch. Always warm up the cooked rice before mixing with the base. Once cup of raw rice roughly yields about 3 cups of cooked rice.
- You may use any kind of rice for this recipe. Raw rice (ponni / sona masoori / basmati / samba ) works for this recipe.
To make the base gravy
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustards seeds.
- Add bengal gram and split black gram to it and fry till it turns golden. Make sure to fry these dal until golden before adding the next ingredient,
- Add fennel seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves to it and fry for few seconds.
- Saute thinly sliced onions for 3 to 4 minutes over medium flame.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry along until the raw smell goes.
- Add chopped tomatoes and saute for few minutes.
- Add turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt. Saute for for minutes.
- Cover and cook for 5 -6 minutes over low flame to cook the tomatoes.
- When done, add garam masala powder and mix. This step is optional, temper a small piece of cinnamon if you skip garam masala powder.
- When done, add cooked rice along with jaggery and mix well.
- Again cover and cook for 5 minutes over low flame.
- Garnish with chopped curry leaves and switch off!
- Serve it with raita, papad and choice of veg curry!
Notes
* Garam Masala Powder – adding garam masala powder is optional. If you plan to skip , then temper a small piece of cinnamon along with fennel seeds for flavor.
*Jaggery – adding jaggery is optional, used to balance the tanginess of tomatoes and heat. You may replace it with a pinch of sugar.
* Ginger Garlic paste can be replace with crushed ginger and garlic for more flavor.
* Tamil Style Thakkali Sadam mostly does not include ginger, you may try using just crushed garlic or with combination of tiny whole garlic for variation.
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To cook rice
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Wash and rinse raw rice and soak for 10 minutes.
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Take rice and water in a pressure cooker and cook over high flame for up to 2 whistles and switch off.
-
Once the pressure settles, spread over a plate and let it cool down a bit.
-
You may use any leftover cooked rice for this recipe instead of cooking a fresh batch. Always warm up the cooked rice before mixing with the base. Once cup of raw rice roughly yields about 3 cups of cooked rice.
-
You may use any kind of rice for this recipe. Raw rice (ponni / sona masoori / basmati / samba ) works for this recipe.
To make the base gravy
-
Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustards seeds.
-
Add bengal gram and split black gram to it and fry till it turns golden. Make sure to fry these dal until golden before adding the next ingredient,
-
Add fennel seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves to it and fry for few seconds.
-
Saute thinly sliced onions for 3 to 4 minutes over medium flame.
-
Add ginger garlic paste and fry along until the raw smell goes.
-
Add chopped tomatoes and saute for few minutes.
-
Add turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt. Saute for for minutes.
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Cover and cook for 5 -6 minutes over low flame to cook the tomatoes.
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When done, add garam masala powder and mix. This step is optional, temper a small piece of cinnamon if you skip garam masala powder.
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When done, add cooked rice along with jaggery and mix well.
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Again cover and cook for 5 minutes over low flame.
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Garnish with chopped curry leaves and switch off!
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Serve it with raita, papad and choice of veg curry!
Notes
*Garam Masala Powder – adding garam masala powder is optional. If you plan to skip , then temper a small piece of cinnamon along with fennel seeds for flavor.
*Jaggery – adding jaggery is optional, used to balance the tanginess of tomatoes and heat. You may replace it with a pinch of sugar.
* Ginger Garlic paste can be replace with crushed ginger and garlic for more flavor.
* Tamil Style Thakkali Sadam mostly does not include ginger, you may try using just crushed garlic or with combination of tiny whole garlic for variation.
Comments
14 responses to “Tomato Rice – Thakkali Sadam Recipe”
Dear Mullai,
I love all your recipes.. my first biriyani was ur mushroom biriyani and it is still one of the fovorite dish at home . Was looking for a tomato rice recipe as I was not satisfied with the taste of what I usually make.. I felt something was missing n then I browsed to see if u have it and then I found this recipe n then the magic happened .. just the perfect tomato rice which I was looking for.. thanks a lot for sharing such awesome recipes . God bless !! ?
Thank you ma????
Tasted too good. Thanks Mullai!
Thank you Divya, so happy for you???
I tried it today & it was great. thanks for the recipe.
Mullai,
My third attempt today.. Excellent , couldn’t resist to drop a note to say a Thank You.
Regs
Jaya
Hi I tried it and it was wicked! Thankx
Hi mullai,i tried this dish few weeks ago…turned out as any of your dishes that i have tried,very tasty…but i have query…can i make the gravy and store it in refrigerator?If yes then for how man days can i store? regards
JANET.
May be it might stay good for 3 to 4 days. If cooked with more oil until it reaches the pickle stage… could last little longer I guess.
Hi Mullai
I tried this and came out very well, Looks like there is already a user Jeya Lakshmi. ( same as my name), so I will identify myself as jlakshmi.
Regs
Jaya
hi mullai,
i tried this. very nice. i prepared tomato rice in a different way shall i post that. wheather photos are necessary to post recipes…
Dear Mullai it was working good really thank you very much
Hai Mullai,
I too tried this and it was awesome!!! Thank you soo much 🙂
Regards,
Jeya.
I tried this and it tasted gr8.Thanks 4 the recipe.