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Easy Tomato Rice Recipe – Thakkali Sadam Recipe

April 16, 2015 By Aarthi 14 Comments

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Tomato rice is my all time favourite. I have shared a video recipe in my blog of this recipe and it got so many views as well. But later i deleted those videos due to some issues. I got so many mails from my viewers asking me for that recipe, so i thought of sharing it in my step by step picture form and i made this yesterday and it turned out to be a super hit. 

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This tomato rice is so easy to make and it makes a great dish to put in lunch box. You just need a simple onion raita to serve with it. When we were little mom used to make this and put a boiled egg or or this potato roast with this. OMG it taste heavenly.
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 20 to 30 mins
Serves : 4


Ingredients:

Rice – 2 cups ( I used seeraga sambar rice)
Oil – 5 tblspn
Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 stick
Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Sanf – 1 tblspn
Cardamom / Yelakai – 5
Cloves / Krambu – 5
Bay Leaf – 2
Garlic – 10 cloves
Onion – 1 large sliced thinly
Tomatoes – 5 sliced thinly
Green Chilli – 3 slit
Chilli Powder – 1 tblspn

Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi – 1 tsp
Garam Masala Powder – 1 tsp
Curry Leaves a handful
Salt to taste
Sugar – 2 tsp
Coriander Leaves a handful finely chopped


Method:

Start by cooking rice, i used seeraga sambar rice. Wash rice well and soak it for 30 mins. I took 4 cup of water for 2 cup of rice. I added it to pressure cooker, whistled it for 2 times, simmered the flame and cooked for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker, fluff the rice and let it cool down completely.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add in whole spices and let them sizzle.

Add in garlic and saute till golden.

Add in onions, green chillies and curry leaves. Saute till golden.

Add in the spice powders, salt and sugar. Mix well.

Add in tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy. Keep cooking them, at a stage the oil will separate from the mix.

Now add in the cooked rice and mix well.

Fry this for few mins.

Add in coriander leaves.

Serve.


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Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients
Slice up your tomatoes
First heat some oil in a kadai..Add in whole spices
Add in whole garlic cloves
saute for couple of mins
Add in sliced onions and curry leaves
Add in some sugar
And some salt
Saute them for a while
Once they are sauted
Add in some chilli powder, garam masala powder
and turmeric powder
Add in green chillies
saute them for a min or so
Now add in the tomatoes
Saute them
Cook till the tomatoes turn mushy
let them cook down
At a stage the oil will separate from the mix
Now add in the cooked rice
Mix well
Now everything is mixed up
add in coriander leaves
mix well
Serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Sherin Deepu

    April 16, 2015 at 9:24 am

    Dear Aarthi

    I really like your step-by-step pictorial. I feel like I have watched you make it. Superb effort that works really well.

    Regards
    Sherin

    Reply
  2. Pushpa Narayana

    June 2, 2015 at 11:42 am

    I love ur recipes. Easy to learn n cook

    Reply
  3. Mary George

    June 15, 2015 at 2:07 am

    Hi…Aarthi .. really liked all u r recipes… Step by step pictorial is so easy to understand.. Thanks for sharing.

    Regards;
    Mary.

    Reply
  4. Anonymous

    June 18, 2015 at 7:30 am

    Dear Aarthi,
    I would like to know why are you adding sugar in almost every recipes…I am your regular follower.

    Love,
    Radha

    Reply
  5. Aarthi

    June 18, 2015 at 1:22 pm

    @Anonymousadding sugar in tomato based recipes will make it taste even better.

    Reply
  6. Roanne Dsouza

    August 27, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    Hi Aarthi, I just came across your blog and made this recipe and its come out awesome.. Love the pictures… makes it so easy to understand.

    Reply
  7. vivian

    October 1, 2015 at 2:01 am

    Dear Aarti,
    Thanks for the easy pictorial step by step cooking…..I now can cook Indian food better…..my son saw my improvement. He loves it. You're amazing.

    Reply
  8. Anonymous

    November 14, 2015 at 6:41 am

    Brilliant

    Reply
  9. Mona

    February 10, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    Hi Arthi, can we cook till tomatoes get mushy in a pressure cooker and then add uncookedrice and pressure cook it? Will the taste vary that way?

    Reply
  10. kavinraj

    March 20, 2016 at 3:57 am

    I reaaly like the way u r explaining.. I tried podalangai kootu. It came well . I will try this also

    Reply
  11. Anonymous

    April 24, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Hi Aarthi…I tried this recipe today and it turns out so delicious… Your recipes never fails…keep up the good work… Thanks

    Reply
  12. Anonymous

    May 1, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    Hi Arthi
    What is the type of chilli powder you have used in this recipe? It looks different. Is there any particular one?

    Reply
    • Aarthi

      May 2, 2016 at 12:01 pm

      I ran out of chilli powder that day. So i too dried chillies and blend them in a grinder

      Reply
  13. Unknown

    January 13, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    I converted it to the Instant pot recipe and followed everything else. It was yummy. Thanks

    Reply

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