Tomato and Spice Rice Recipe is an easy recipe with brown rice, herbs, spices, and tomatoes. Its healthy, tangy and mouthwatering. Follow the step by step recipe with photos.
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Tomato and Spice Rice Recipe by Shalini
Some days when I am ultra-lazy or craving something spicy to eat, I order this Mexican (or is it Spanish) rice from my nearby take away joint. It’s this big bowl of almost done rice with loads of herbs, spices, and tomatoes and comes with a nice chunky salsa and sour cream dip. One day I just decided to replicate it by taste and the following recipe is the result of that ingenuity. Yes yes, I am taking a bow.
So sit back and relax while I explain this uber simple but crazy delish recipe which I no longer order any more.
- Brown Rice – 1 cup, cooked – just keep it a little undercooked. (You may substitute white rice)
- Garlic – 6 cloves, chopped
- Fresh Dill – 1 tbsp finely chopped
- Spring Onions – 3, finely chopped (keep greens and onion separate)
- Tomatoes – 4 medium sized firm tomatoes, diced (remove the seed center before chopping)
- Dry seasoning spices – 1 tsp each
- Red jalapenos – 2 tbsp (store-bought)
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp (or any other cooking oil of your choice)
- Black Pepper – ½ tsp, freshly crushed
- Fresh Sweet Basil – 7-8 leaves, roughly chopped
- Salt – to taste
- Heat the oil in a wok/Kadai and add the garlic and dill – sauté for a minute or two.
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- Sprinkle some of the three seasonings (I add as per my taste, but you may vary) and sauté some more on low flame.
- I am using Dry seasoning spices like Red Chilli Flakes, Italian Seasoning, Garlic Bread Seasoning
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- Add the green bits of the spring onions and sauté for 2 minutes till they wilt and reduce in size. Now add the onion part and sauté for another 2 minutes.
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- Add the red jalapenos and sauté for a minute and then add the diced tomatoes.
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- Sprinkle some salt to taste and sauté until the tomatoes are a little tender. They should retain their bite and not become pulpy or leave too much of their juice.
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- Now add the cooked rice and use a fork to mix everything gently. The fork allows for the rice grains to remain separated and doesn’t make them turn to mush or sticky.
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- Sprinkle the basil leaves and the pepper; toss it all gently one more time till all is evenly mixed and turn off the heat.
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- Serve with homemade chunky salsa salad with onions, tomatoes, capsicum, green chilies, coriander and lemon juice and some sour cream on the side if you like it.
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About Shalzmojo
An interior designer by profession, writing is a passion which coupled with travel love, blossomed into this blog where I love to just “do my thing”! Be it recipes, food events, travel jaunts, fiction dreaming or even meditative musings; all of it’s taken up quite passionately on my blog. I am a serious wine guzzler and love to chase butterflies in my free time.
Shalini Baisiwala
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16 comments
This Looks like a delicious and simple recipe! Will try it out.
This looks super tasty. With the ingredients added along with the rice, feel like grabbing it from the screen 🙂
This is a very volourful snd delicious looking dish.Love the idra if using brown rice.A tad too spicy for me maybe😊
Thanks Amzaee; trust me its not spicy at all! The red chillies are actually quite tangy and not spicy; cut down on the red chilli flakes to lessen the spice factor if at all!! Glad you like the use of brown rice
My mouth was watering just reading this recipe… Sounds really good.
Thanks so much Doc; trust me it is very delish! Hope you do give it a try!
Love this colorful and delightful. Looks easy to follow steps as all ingredients are available at home usually. Indeed Shalz is a great cook. I’m following her recipe on Instagram
Oh thats so sweet Bushra; I would love to know how this turned out for you!! Do share a pic when you make it pls
Hey Shalz Thanks for sharing such spicy and tangy. I always like the tangy taste of tomatoes and I try to add it to every recipe I make be it with vegetables or rice. I am surely gonna make this and will get back to you.
Oh thats made my day for sure G; yes pls tell me how it turned out and what is your feedback on the taste and actual recipe!! Its great to hear how someone else made it
Yummy super delicious recipe. Tex Mexican is one of my fav cuisines and what is not to love about tomatoes rice and basil. Will try it and let you know.
OOOh thats nice to know- yes pls try it out and share some pics and feedback with us! Would love to hear how it turned out for you Sharvari
Tomato rice yumm and what a wonderful humble recipe. I would say this is comfort food and delicious too.
Thanks Dipika and yeah this is truly comfort food for me!!
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