Tomato Rice / Tomato Annam

Ingredients:

1 cup Rice(cooked)
1 cup chopped Tomato
1 small Potato/Aloe(chopped)
1/2 cup chopped Onion
3 slit Green Chillies
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
1 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Ajinomoto(optional)
2 tbsp Peanuts
1 tsp Cumin seeds/Jeelakarra
1 tsp Mustard seeds/Aavalu
1 tbsp Black gram/Minapappu
1 tbsp Bengal gram/Pachi Senaga Pappu
2 Red chillies torn into pieces
Curry Leaves
Chopped coriander
Pinch of Turmeric
Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a pan, add peanuts bengal gram, black gram, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, red chillies and a pinch of Hing(asafoetida). Fry them until golden brown. Add curry leaves, green chillies and onion. Fry them again until onion becomes translucent.
2. To the above mixture, add chopped tomatoes, potato, turmeric and a tsp of salt. Let the tomatoes and potato cook well and become soft.
3. Add garam masala, red chilli powder, coriander powder and mix the whole mixture well.
4. Add coriander leaves, cooked rice, mix well and adjust salt. Tasty Tomato rice is ready to serve now.

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Tomato Pachadi / Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:


5 medium sized Tomatoes(chopped)
2-3 flakes of Tamarind(soaked in water)
1 medium Onion(chopped)
1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
4-5 Fenugreek seeds(menthulu)
2 tbsp Coriander seeds
1 tbsp Bengal gram
1 tbsp Black gram
2 Green Chillies
4 Red Chillies
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Heat little oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add fenugreek seeds, pinch of Hing,coriander seeds,bengal gram, black gram, green chillies, red chillies and fry them well until nice aroma spreads around(Remember, fry them on a low flame). Collect these ingredients in a plate.
2. Heat pan again with little oil in it. Add chopped onion and fry them until translucent. Add ginger garlic paste, tomatoes and tamarind(along with the water in which tamarind was soaked). Fry them nicely until the whole mixture is cooked and soft.
3. Bring the above ingredients collected in a plate(spices mixture) to mixi. Once they are finely powdered, add the tomato mixture to the mixi and make a paste. Remove the chutney into a bowl, adjust salt and serve it with steam rice/dosa/wada/Idli as desired.

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