Tomato Rice

This is one amongst my fav food! This is how I do tomato rice with spices...I love the regular one too. I enjoy when I cook with lot of tomatoes.

Ingredients:
Tomatoes 5
Tomato puree 5 tsp
Briyani leaf 2
Meal maker(optional)10-15
Red Onions 1
Green chilly(vertically sliced) 5-as per ur pref
Fennel seeds 2 tsp
clove 2
cardamom (optional if u don like the taste ) 2
cinnamon stick (medium size) 1
kas kas 3/4 tsp
ginger -garlic paste 1/2 tsp
chilli powder 1 tsp
Turmeric powder 3/4 tsp
oil
curry leaves
coriander leaves
salt to taste.
Method:
1)Wash the rice, pour 3/4 tsp of oil. Add rice, meal maker, bay leaf and cook(usually 1 cup rice- 2 (or)2 3/4 cup water. This would take nearly 15-20 minutes in a rice cooker.
2) Grate the following items in a blender
(5 tomatoes,1/2 onion,1 tsp fennel seeds,2 cloves, cinnamon stick, green chilli, kaskas)
3)Heat the pan, pour oil ,add 1 tsp mustard seeds ,let it splutter, add curry leaves, fennel seeds,cardomom ,channa dhal, remaining cut onions, ginger garlic paste.fry properly till onion turn golden brown.

4) Now add the grinded masala, tomato puree, chili powder , turmeric powder and little water to it...

5)Let this boil till you get a gravy consistency.
6) Now add gravy to the boiled rice and mix it.

Garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with chutney, pappad