Tomato rice

Ingredients

Raw rice: 2 cups
Shah jeera: 1 tsp
Bay leaf: 1
Cloves: 6
Cinnamon stick: 1"
Cardamoms: 2
Onions: 2 (medium sized, finely sliced)
Green chili-ginger-garlic paste: 1 1/2 tsps
Mint: 12-15 leaves (Pudina)
Kasoori methi: 1/2 tsp (dried fenugreek leaves)
Red chili powder: 1 tsp
Cumin Powder: pinch (roasted jeera powder)
Tomato: 2 (large red tomatoes, finely chopped)
Tomato: 1 (large red tomato, blanch, peel skin and puree)
Coriander leaves: 1 1/2 tbsps (finely chopped for garnish)
Salt: to taste
Oil: 1 tbsp
Ghee: 1 tbsp (optional) vegan can omit ghee and substitute with oil
Method

Heat oil+ghee in a vessel or pressure cooker, add shah jeera, cloves, cinnamon and cardamoms and stir fry 30 secs. Add the sliced onions and saute for 3 mts. Add green chili-ginger-garlic paste, mint leaves and kasoori methi and saute for 4-5 mts.
Add red chili powder and cumin powder and mix. Add chopped tomato, tomato puree and salt to taste and mix. Cook for 8-9 mts on low to medium flame, or till oil separates.
Reduce heat, add the raw rice, mix, saute for a mt. Add 3 3/4 cups of water and bring to a boil. Reduce flame and cook till rice is done. If using pressure cooker, cook rice upto 3 whistles.
Remove onto a serving bowl. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves. Serve warm with raita or any curry of your choice.
Tips

You can use 2 tbsps of oil or 1 tbsp oil+1 tbsp ghee.

OR
Tomato rice
(Found this on a blog of south Indian recipes)
Ingredients:
Basmati rice-1 1/2 cup
onion-2(cut it as long )
tomato-3Cut it as small)
green chilli-2
ginger,garlic paste-1sp
mint leaf-little
chilli powder-1sp
oil-3to4 sp
bayleaf,cinamon stick,cloves and elachi all 1pc
jeera and sombu/aniseed-1sp

First grind the tomato, green chilli,ginger garlic paste and keep aside
Wash the rice nicely with water and remove the water.
First keep the vessel which will be sufficient for preparing the measured rice. Put oil in it and add jeera, sombu,bayleaf,clove,cinamon stick,elachi.After it is well fried put onion and little pinch of salt,so that onions will get fried soon.
After the onion become brown colour , put the tomato paste which is grinded earlier.
Fry it till the raw smell goes from the tomato. Now add mint leaf with it and add salt to your taste.
It will be in thick gravy consistency.
Put the washed rice in the masala and nicely saute it so that the gravy spreads all over the rice.
Meantime keep 4 cups of water to boil,after rice mixed with the masala pour the boiled water
When you see the water starts boiling nicely with bubbles, keep the flame in low heat and close it.
After 5mins open and see it. If the water remain again leave it for 2 more mins.
If water is not there and the rice is also well cooked, Your tomato rice is ready
Serve it with any gravy. Best combination serve it with chicken gravy. Hope you too will try and taste it and comment me.