Tomato Pulao

My kids are great fans of one pot meal especially anything with tomatoes, obviously i make quite often their favourite pulao with tomatoes but everytime i make i forget to click a picture to post it in my space. Finally i clicked few pictures just to write about our favourite easy breezy pulao. Tomato pulao gets ready very much easily if you make them through pressure cooker or else simply with a heavy bottomed vessel. Usually i go for pressure cooker method but this time i opted for a heavy bottomed pan and the pulao came out extremely delicious with prefectly cooked basmati rice.

Am running my third week of blogging marathon with Kid's delight - Colourful dishes and for the first day am posting this tomato pulao.  The tomatoes i bought during my recent visit to farmer's market were extremely juicy and super prefectly ripen. Obviously i instead of making a salad out of those ripen tomatoes, i prepared this pulao. Tomato pulao came out super colourful and extremely flavourful, i simply served this easy breezy pulao with sweet potato chips and everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly this delicious one pot meal.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#49.

2cups Basmati rice (soaked for 30 minutes)

1no Onion(sliced)

1tsp Ginger-garlic paste

2nos  Green chili(slit opened)

6nos Tomato ( ripen & chopped)
1/2tsp Red chilly powder
1tsp Garam masala powder

4cups Water

3 tbsp Oil

Salt
Chopped mint leaves

For tempering:

1tsp Cumin seeds

1no Bay leaf

2-3nos Cloves

2nos Cardamoms

1inch cinnamon

Heat oil and fry all the whole spices until they turns brown.

Add the onions and cook until they turns transculent,add the ginger-garlic paste and saute for a minute.

Now add the tomatoes and slit opened green chilies and saute on a low flame until the tomatoes turns mushy.

Finally add the red chilly powder,garam masala powder and saute again for few minutes on a low flame.

Add the rice and saute for 2 minutes on a low flame.

Now add the water,chopped mint leaves, salt and cook everything in medium high flame for few minutes and finish the cooking with low flame until the rice gets well cooked.

Serve this pulao with raita or chips of your choice.