Tomato Rice

Ingredients:

Tomato : 3 medium
Rice : 3 cups
Cloves :3
Cinnamon : 1/2 inch
Green Elachi : 2
Star/Anise : 2
Mint : 1 medium bunch
Yogurt : 3 tbsps
Green chillies : 7
Salt : 1 1/4 spoon
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Oil/ghee : 1 tbsp
Ginger & garlic paste :1 spoon
Onion : 1/4 cup finely cut
Turmeric : 1/4 spoon
lemon juice : 1 spoon

Method:
Wash rice and soak in water. While soaking the rice, do the below steps.
Heat oil in a pan. Add clove, cinnamon, star/anise, elachi and let it splutter.
Add green chillies and finely cut onion. Saute it.
Add ginger & garlic paste. Fry until the raw smell goes.
Add cut tomato and fry until tomato shrinks in size.
Add finely cut mint, yogurt, salt, turmeric. Mix well.
Cook for 7 min.
Switch of stove.
Mix all the cooked mixture in the rice and cook the rice.
Just before the rice is getting done, garnish with cilantro.
Squeeze lemon juice on top of rice once done.

Tip : You can add cashews roasted in ghee to the rice to enhance the flavor. Use canned diced tomato to get the tomato rice in red color.