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    Home » Rice, Noodles and Pasta » Tomato Pulao with Fried Bread

    Tomato Pulao with Fried Bread

    Published: Dec 5, 2016 · Modified: Oct 5, 2020 by Srivalli · 7 Comments

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    Tomato Pulao with Fried Bread is one of those dishes from childhood. While I have so many versions of Tomato Pulao, this one is special as I remember Amma making it this way with fried bread pieces garnished on top. Some of the pieces would have steeped inside and you have that soggy deep fried bread, mixed with the masala and still having its distinct flavour.

    I know this is just an additional step where one has to add the fried bread, however, Amma used to alter the rice and bread, so you have layers of bread in between and stored in the hot box. Those were the days when Milton Hotcases were famous. She used to have an array of Hotcase in different sizes. The moment the rice was cooked, it gets transferred to a bowl and it used to stay hot until lunch time. While she still continues to use them even now, I no longer use it. I have two huge boxes that I remove when my SILs visit us. Otherwise, it's usually the microwavable bowls that get used.

    Tomato Pulao with Fried Bread

    As I said the fried bread pieces are added in two or three stages to ensure everybody gets to have this. So while transferring, Amma will add them as a layer, top it with another layer of rice, continued by two more layers like this and finally garnish again on top. The bread is fried in ghee, so it stays stiff or rather sticky.

    After a long time, we made this again as Amma said she suddenly remembered those fried bread pulao. So our meal was this simple Tomato Pulao, Roti with Tomato Thokku, Curd Rice.

    Tomato Pulao Fried Bread

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    Tomato Pulao with Fried Bread

    Course Main Dish - Rice
    Cuisine Andhra Pradesh
    By Cook Method Pressure Cooker
    Occasion Weekend Special
    Author Srivalli

    Ingredients

    For the Rice

    • 2 cups Basmati Rice
    • 4 medium Tomatoes approx 1.5 cup of puree
    • 1 big Onion
    • 4 nos Green Chillies
    • 1 Bay leaf
    • 1 tsp Cumin seeds
    • 2 Mace /Javathri / Javatri
    • A pinch Turmeric powder
    • 1/2 tsp Red Chilli powder
    • Salt to taste
    • 2 tsp Ghee
    • 1 tsp Oil
    • 1 cup Water
    • 1 cup Coconut Milk thick

    Spices to be ground

    • 7 Garlic cloves
    • 2 inch Ginger
    • 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
    • 3 Cloves
    • 2 inch Cinnamon

    Instructions

    • Soak basmati rice for 15 mins. Drain and keep aside
    • Make a coarse paste of the spices to be ground. It comes to around 1.5 tsp.
    • Puree the tomatoes and keep it aside.
    • Heat a pressure cooker with ghee and oil. Add cumin seeds, mace, bay leaf. Saute for 2 mins.
    • Then add onions julienne and slit the green chillies. Saute till the onions turn colour. Next add the ground spice paste and saute.
    • Drain the rice and add to the cooker. Combine everything ell. Add the tomato puree to the coconut milk. Measure about 3 cups of liquid if you are using basmati rice. So add water accordinly.
    • Add chili powder and turmeric. Adjust the spices and add more red chili powder if required.
    • When the water comes to boil, cover with lid and cook for 3 whistles.
    • Meanwile chop bread slices into pieces. Deep fry and keep it aside.
    • When the pressure falls down, fluff with fork, transfer to the serving bowl, alternating with the fried bread.
    • Serve with raitha.
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    1. Vaishali Sabnani says

      December 06, 2016 at 8:41 am

      Tomato rice with bread pieces sounds interesting..but these pieces would get soggy , right ?
      I make quboli which too has bread pieces but those remain slightly crunchy.

      Reply
    2. srividhya says

      December 08, 2016 at 10:06 pm

      Family recipes are always the best. Yummmm. That fried bread.. drooling here

      Reply
    3. cookingwithsapana says

      December 08, 2016 at 10:52 pm

      The rice looks so delicious and with fried bread it must have tasted amazing.

      Reply
    4. Priya Suresh says

      December 09, 2016 at 4:24 pm

      I love my pulaos with fried bread chunks, just drooling here.

      Reply
    5. Ritu Tangri says

      December 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm

      Fried bread in pulao....must have tasted awesome. I use it only in tomato soup and kids fight for more 🙂

      Reply
    6. Harini-Jaya R says

      December 15, 2016 at 9:00 am

      I remember my mom making some kind of masala rice with fried bread. OMG! It has been ages sonce I had this. I must try this for sure!!

      Reply
    7. Pavani says

      January 05, 2017 at 2:52 am

      That's a delicious looking tomato pulao. Adding fried bread makes it so 'gourmet' sounding.
      I got a couple of milton hot cases here from my mom.

      Reply

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