Fragrant, comforting, and easy to serve as a complete meal, Tomato Rice Recipe within Minutes | Thakali Rice is a vegetarian south indian breakfast, rice made with oil, mustard, and cumin / jeera in about 15 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Total time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 2 servings
  • Category: Breakfast, rice
  • Cuisine: south indian

Ingredients

  • 3 tsp oil
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • 1 tsp cumin / jeera
  • ½ tsp urad dal
  • ½ tsp chana dal
  • few fenugreek / methi
  • 1 inch cinnamon / dalchini
  • 4 cloves
  • few curry leaves
  • few cashew / kaju
  • 1 onion (finely chopped)
  • 1 green chilli (slit)
  • ¼ tsp ginger paste
  • 2 tomato (finely chopped)
  • ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
  • ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
  • ½ tsp coriander powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp mint / pudina (chopped)
  • 2 cup rice (cooked)
  • 2 tbsp coriander (finely chopped)

Method

  1. firstly, in a large kadai heat 3 tsp oil and splutter tempering.
  2. also, saute few cashews until golden brown.
  3. add 1 onion, 1 green chilli, ¼ tsp ginger paste and saute well.
  4. now add 2 tomatoes and saute until tomatoes turn soft and mushy.
  5. additionally add ¼ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp chilli powder, ½ tsp coriander powder, ½ tsp salt and 2 tbsp mint leaves.
  6. saute and cook for a minute.
  7. furthermore, add 2 cups cooked rice and mix gently.
  8. cover and simmer for 5 minutes to absorb all masala.
  9. finally, serve tomato rice with raita of your choice.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.