South Indian Tomato rice in Instant pot–How to make tomato rice in Instant pot

Here is a South Indian style (Tamil nadu style thakkali sadam) tomato rice as my first recipe post using Instant pot. I bought an instant pot for my own use few months back and started cooking some easy, one pot meals. I tried rice kheer, ven pongal, vegetable biryani, North Indian lunch menu and tomato rice so far. Everything came out so well and satisfactory in my first attempt. I just love this gadget.

In my opinion, I would say an instant pot is more like a pressure cooker or electric rice cooker with advanced features like delay start, slow cooking etc. It will be so helpful if you are a working women, student or a bachelor for hassle free cooking.

Even though I am a housewife, I like to cook everything quickly , spend less time in kitchen without any compromise in taste and health. So most of the time, I do use my pressure cooker for my cooking. So this instant pot, better than a pressure cooker in some aspects has won my heart. 

You can just saute all the ingredients directly, add water and pressure cook with delay start mode on. By the time you come back from office, your food will be ready, hot and fresh. Soon I will try to make a series of some easy and quick instant pot recipes. I hope you will find it useful.

Now lets see how to make our South Indian style tomato rice / thakkali sadam in instant pot with step by step pictures.

Instant pot tomato rice

How to make tomato rice in instant pot

 

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Main course

Serves: 3

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

 

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

Cooking oil – 3 tbsp Cinnamon – 1 Cloves – 3 Cardamom –1 Bay leaf – 1 Black stone flower / kalpasi – 1 Fennel seeds – 1/2 tsp Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp Ripe tomato – 4 Big onion – 2 Mint leaves – handful Green peas – handful Red chilli powder – 1 to 1.5 tsp Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp Water – 1.5 cups Basmati rice – 1 cup (soaked in water for 15 minutes)

HOW TO MAKE TOMATO RICE IN INSTANT POT

1. Wash and chop onion, tomato finely. Wash and soak basmati rice for 15 minutes.
2. Switch on Instant pot and press SAUTE button. Add oil and heat it.
3. Saute whole garam masala items and fennel seeds. Add onion and saute till transparent. 
4. Add ginger garlic paste and mix till raw smell goes off. Add mint leaves and mix well.
5. Add tomato pieces, required salt and saute till mushy. 
6. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and mix well. 
7. Add water and washed rice. Mix well and check for taste.
8. Close the lid. Keep the pressure valve button in sealing position.
9. Press CANCEL button and press PRESSURE COOK button. Set the time for 8 minutes in normal pressure. After cooking, instant pot will go to warm mode and releases the steam naturally.
10. Wait till the pressure valve button moves to vent position naturally. It takes 11 minutes.
11. Now press OFF button and open the lid. Fluff the rice gently and serve hot with onion raita.

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Wash and soak the basmati rice for 15 minutes. In the mean time, wash and chop onion, tomato finely. Switch on the instant pot and press saute button. Add oil and once its heated, add the whole garam masala one by one. Add fennel seeds and saute for a minute. Add onion, ginger garlic paste and saute till onion turns transparent. Add mint leaves and mix well. Now add tomato pieces and required salt. Saute till tomato turns mushy. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder. Saute for a minute.  Lastly add the soaked rice. Mix well and check for taste. Add more salt or chilli powder if required. Add green peas. Mix well and close the instant pot. Press cancel button to suspend the saute mode. Now press pressure cook button and set the time to 8 minutes in normal mode. Make sure pressure valve button is in sealing position.  Once its cooked, instant pot will go to warm mode by itself and pressure starts to release. Wait till the pressure valve handle moves to vent position naturally. It took 11 minutes for me. Press Off button. Now open the instant pot and fluff the rice gently with a fork like ladle. Serve hot with onion raita ! Enjoy !

Note

Make sure pressure valve/ steam release button is in sealing position before turning on pressure cook mode. For variations, you can skip garam masala powder.

Easy, yummy tomato rice is ready in instant pot under 20 minutes. Try and enjoy !

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