TOMATO RICE II

There are so many ways to cook tomato rice but my choice goes to this recipe, simply fantastic.

When using tomato puree make sure you taste first before adding since certain brands are fully concentrated and adding too much will make the rice overly sour and spoil the taste of this yummy rice..

You could use basmati rice but that requires soaking  for about 30 minutes before hand. The water level should be 1 inch above the rice. Let's cook...

INGREDIENTS

2 cups long grain rice/basmati
2 green chili slit
1 onion chopped
1/2  cup  tomato puree
1/2  tablespoon  ginger garlic paste
1/2  tablespoon  chili powder
4   tablespoon  butter or oil
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 T chopped coriander leaves
1 stick cinnamon
2 cardamoms
salt to taste
4  cup  water

METHOD

* Heat the oil, fry cinnamon, cardamom and onion until light brown. Add ginger garlic paste, green chili and coriander leaves, cook until fragrant.

* Now add the tomato puree, chili powder, turmeric and salt, stir until well blended.

* Transfer this onto rice cooker, add rice and required water to cook the rice, on the switch.

* Rice is ready to eat with your favorite curry. Enjoy!

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HOMEMADE TUNA PIZZA

After my successful trial on baking pizza, baked this using the same dough but now topped it with tuna. I made them spicy, spreading the mayonnaise on top, done without mozzarella cheese since I don't have any at the moment.

My family truly enjoyed eating them. Tasted great, won't be buying the ready made pizza in future. If you wish to try my version here is the recipe:

INGREDIENTS

Pizza dough kindly refer here.

TOPPING
1 can (185g) tuna in water drained
2 tablespoons chili paste
1 onion sliced
1 tomato chopped
3 cloves garlic chopped
lemon juice
salt to taste

TO SPRINKLE ON TOP
6 T tomato sauce
3 fresh tomatoes sliced
2 big onion sliced
5 T mayonnaise/cheese

METHOD

* Heat the oil, fry onion and garlic until fragrant, add tomato and salt, cook until tomato turns soft.

* Now add chili powder, stir for few minutes, add tuna and stir well.

* Just before removing from heat, squeeze the lemon juice and add more salt if needed. Cool.

* Preheat oven @ 200 C. Roll out dough into 4 pizza and place onto baking pan. Rest for 30 minutes.

* Spread evenly each pizza with tomato sauce, sprinkle the tuna, followed by onion then tomato. Lastly spread mayonnaise/cheese  on top. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

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PUMPKIN CURRY AND SPECIAL CARDS

This is one of my favorite vegetables. It has slightly sweet coupled with spicy and tangy taste. Since the skin is very tough, I just scrap it lightly without removing the peel. You have to take care not to boil the pumpkin for a long time since it turns soft quite fast. Absolutely delicious, great to serve with rice, chapati or naan.

MEE GORENG II

We had a change of plan, I was supposedly not cooking today since my children are away but got a call that their original plans were cancelled and was requested to cook something fast and easy.

Immediately went to my kitchen and checked what I have in my fridge. Cooked this  Mee Goreng II without usual meat, seafood and vegetable.

 Surprisingly turned out delicious and received compliments from my children. Really happy to see it gone in no time.

PUMPKIN CAKE

Went to market recently and spotted some nice and fresh pumpkins off the shelves, bought them hastily. Besides serving the pumpkin as side dish, I baked  this Pumpkin  Cake out of it. It turns out yummy and my family love them so much. If fresh pumpkin is unavailable, use canned pumpkin instead. Here is the recipe: