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What about a lunch with rice, curd, green chillies, mashed tomatoes and little salt? It tastes wonderful and it is H's favourite! Some times when getting bored of our usual curries, I prefer taking the tomato,green chilly, curd plus salt mixture with well cooked rice. So some one loves those ingredients may surely love this pachadi too..!



Ingredients
Tomatoes 3
green chillies 3
salt

Crush,
small onions 4
ginger 1/4 " piece

Blend,
coconut grated 3/4 cups
curd 2 or 3 Tbsp
mustard seeds 1/2 tsp

Garnish,
curryleaves few
mustard seeds
red chillies
coconut oil



How to prepare
Chop tomatoes. Crush them with hand. Cook this with chopped green chillies , salt , crushed ginger and shallots with enough water to cover it.
Blend coconut with curd to a smooth paste. In the end add mustard seeds and just crush it.
Pour this solution to cooked hot tomato gravy. Mix well and remove from fire.
Season with curry leaves, mustard seeds, and red chillies in coconut oil.

This is the way my mother cooks tomato rice.I prefer eating this as a breakfast dish or evening snack with tea. This was my usual lunch during school days. You can use any oil instead of ghee for preparing this.

Ingredients and Method
Basmati rice 2 cups
Cook rice with little salt.Drain and keep aside.

Chop 4 medium size tomatoes, 2 green chillies and 2 onions.
Heat 2 table spoons of ghee in a pan.
Put 1 teaspoon mustard seeds and 1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds.
Let it splutter.
Then saute onion in this.
Add 2 teaspoons garlic and ginger paste with 2 pinches of fennel seeds powder.
Stir for few seconds, add chopped tomatoes and 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves into this.
Add 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, 2 teaspoons (or according to taste) red chilly powder and salt into this.
Stir well.
Add 1/4 cup water for cooking tomatoes.
When tomatoes are cooked well, mix cooked rice with this. Mix well.
If you like , sprinkle little garam masala over this.

Ingredients and method