Tomato rice for neivedhyams

When it comes to making neivedhyams and when you plan to make mixed rice varieties it is always to be made without Onions and garlic. Many people find it hard to have it without these two. But my mom makes tomato rice without onion and garlic always and I have grown up eating that. This recipe is my mom's favourite and so is mine. The taste of the juice of the tomato seeping inside the cooked rice is definitely something to be relished. It does not need any special rice variey like Basmathi or Jeeraga Samba. Can be made with the regular raw rice that is used daily

Ingredients:

Tomato - /12 kg or 8 nos

Green chilly - 2 nos

Curry leaves - 1/4 cup

Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup

Mint leaves (optional) -  1/4 cup

Ginger - 1/2 inch piece1

Salt - 1 1/2 tbsp

Gingely oil - 4 tbsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Hing - 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Dhaniya - 2 tbps

Urad dal - 1 tbsp

Channa dal - 2 tbsp

Red Chilly - 6 nos

Rice - 1 /2 cups

Water - 2 cups

Method:

In a tadka pan add dhaniya, 1 tbsp of channa dal and urad dal and fry till it starts getting golden brown. Transfer it to a plate. Add the red chillies and fry it till it starts becoming aromatic. When it is cool dry it to a fine powder. 

Chop the tomatoes finely either using manual or electric chopper. Add the green chillies ginger, curry leaves, 1/2 cup coriander leaves and mint leaves along with the tomatoes and chop all. 

Pressuire cook the rice with a spoon of ghee and 1 1/2 cups of water for 2 whistles. Once cool spread it on the plate.

In a hard bottom pan add the ghee and gingely oil. Once hot add the mustard seeds, 1 tbsp of channa dal, hing, turmeric powder and mix well. Add the chopped tomatoes and mix well. Add 1/2 cup of water and salt. Cover and cook in a slow flame till all the water is absorbed. Mix well. Add the powder and mix thoroughly. 

Add the cooked tomato to the cooked rice slowly and mix slowly. Use a fork or the back of the laddle to mix the rice so that it does not break. Add the remaining finely chopped coriander leaves. 

Adjust the salt as required. 

Serve hot with the vegetable of  your choice. But it tastes yummy even without any side dish.