Tomato Pulao

Ingredients:

Basmati rice            -  1 cup

Tomatoes                -  4 - 5 nos
Onions                    -  1 nos
Grated coconut       -  2 table spoons
Fennel seeds (sauf)  -  1 tea spoon
Cloves                     -  2 nos
Cinnamon sticks       -  1 inch
Green chillies           -  2 nos
Ginger                     -  1 inch
Garlic                      -  4 - 5 pearls
Ghee                       -  2 table spoons
Jeera                       -  1 tea spoon
Salt to taste

1.  Wash and soak rice in 1 1/2 cups of water.
2.  Finely chop onions and tomatoes.
3.  Grind together coconuts, green chillies, cloves, sauf, cinnamon sticks, ginger and garlic.
4.  Heat ghee in a thick bottomed vessel and add jeera and once it crackles add the chopped onions.
5.  After onions become transparent add the chopped tomatoes and salt.
6.  Keep stirring occasionally and allow the tomatoes to become sauce like.
7.  Now add the ground paste and soaking rice along with the water.
8.  Add more salt if necessary and cook till the rice is cooked.
9.  Tomato pulao ready.  Serve hot with papad, pickle and raita.