Sunday, March 22, 2015

Tomato mint rice

Ingredients: rice, mint, coriander leaves, tomato, onion, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, chilli powder, salt, oil
Procedure:
1. For serving two people take one bowl(soup bowl) of rice. Soak it in water for 10 minutes.
2. Take half bowl of coriander and mint leaves(1:1 proportion). Grind it and keep it aside.
3. Take 1 Roma tomato(average sized) and grind it into paste.
4. Take 1 tea spoon of whole cardamoms. Open their pods and get the seeds. Take 1/2 teaspoon of cloves and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper. Grind all of these and the masala is ready.
5. Chop a small onion and sauté it in about 3 table spoons of oil in a small pressure cooker.
6. Add the mint-tomato paste and the grinded masala to it. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and 1/2 tablespoon of chilli powder(add according to taste).
7. Add the soaked rice to it. Now add about 2 bowls(size same as the rice bowl) of water to it and cook it in the pressure cooker.