Tomato Rice

ORIGIN
"Tomato Rice" is a popularly made south Indian dish.In the modern era,most of the working women prefer cooking this dish as the simplest of all dishes and consumes very less time and of course the main ingredient is tomato which is very easily available in the market !

INGREDIENTS

Cooked Rice - 3 Cups

Tomato - 1/4 kg.

Onion - 3 (medium sized )

Green Chillis - 3

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp.

Bengal Gram - 1/2 tsp.

Salt - to taste

Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp.

Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp.

Oil - 3 tsp.

PROCEDURE

Step 1:Chop the onions and tomatoes into small pieces.Chop the green chillis also.

Step 2:Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the mustard seeds , Bengal gram and allow the mustard seeds to sputter.

Step 3:Now,add the chopped green chillis and onions into the pan and fry them until the onions turn brown in color.

Step 4:Now add the chopped tomatoes into the same pan and fry for 5 minutes.

Step 5:Then add salt to taste,Red chilli powder ,garam masala into the frying pan and fry for 5 minutes again.

Step 6:Now, add the cooked rice into the pan and mix well under heat for a minute.

Step 7:Garnish with Coriander leaves

Serve hot with pappads and onion raitha