Tomato Pulav
Tomato Pulav
Tasty rice for your leisurely sundays especially for the vegetarians, you can make vegetable kurma with this and you have a balanced diet cum tasty dishes for your special sunday. Try it your children will thank you for it. If there is a non-vegetarian too then make chicken fry for them. It only takes one and half hour to make all this.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice (basmati)
- 4 Tomato medium sized
- 1 Onion big
- 2 tsp Ginger garlic Paste
- 2 cups Coconut milk
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 1/4 tsp Chili Powder
- 2tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Ghee optional
Instructions
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Wash the rice and soak in water for 30 minutes. Cut the onion and tomatoes into small pieces.
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Take fresh coconut pieces and grind them in the mixer and make coconut milk from it. ( the paste should be very smooth, pour water and sieve with a filter and squeeze out the coconut milk from the left over pulp).
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Take a cooker add oil and ghee and add 2 cloves and 3 cinnamon pieces and add the onions and fry till light brown add the tomatoes and ginger garlic paste and fry well till tomatoes turn mushy.
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Now add the rice, turmeric, salt, chili powder and fry for 5 minutes. You need two glasses of water to cook one glass of rice. Since we already have coconut milk measure it first and then add water to make two glasses.
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If you feel lazy to make coconut milk you can also add the paste after the tomatoes get mushy and fry for 2 minutes and then add rice. then you can add plain water 2 glasses.
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Now close the lid and cook for 7 minutes after the whistle and switch off and serve hot.
