Tomato Rice with a Kerala touch

I have had tomato rice at hostels and I hated it. Even if they were good, hostel food reminds how far you are from your mother and everything tastes painful. Thus I disliked tomato rice. But then occasional visits at tamilian friend's house and I knew I was missing something. Then one fine day my son told me he loves tomato rice and he wanted to have it badly.

There I go searching frantically for recipes and recipes and didn’t know which one would be good. Then I timidly asked dear Bee who was posting an authentic lime rice recipe and she was kind enough to get hold of a wonderful tomato rice recipe.

None of us at home would eat plain white rice unless it is biriyani rice and that too made it in biriyani way. And If I was going to introduce a different kind of cooked rice at home, then I had to make sure I don’t upset the Kerala rice-immersed- in-gravy combinations. Also, none of us entertain the idea of having a little dry rice. Dry rice preparations like pulav are eaten at home laden with yogurt, curries and what not. But then to get the real flavor of tomato rice, I wanted to introduce it as it is but with a few changes.

I just took the risk of making it with Kerala rice and made it a little bit more on the mushy side so that people at the dinner table won’t scream, ‘where is the curry’.

I also added hot black pepper instead of red chili pepper.

Loved the result. Everybody loved it.

Thank you Bee.