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Quick Dinner recipe

Yesterday we just had cooked rice at home for dinner. We ( me and my roomie) had no mood to cook anything and there wasnt much stuff in our house to cook anyways. So we thought, lets make some mixed rice. (lemon rice and tomato rice). As PhD students, we dont follow conventions ;). We thought, lets make our own recipe. I made the tomato rice and its called "Verum Thakkali Sadham" (Just tomato Rice). The key word is "Verum" (just). Its called like that, because apart from tomato, there is no other vegetable in it, not even onion (We were out of onion and I generally dont prefer to put any vegetable in my cooking which makes me cry unless ofcourse its absolutely necessary, like onion chutney ;)). So here goes the recipe.

Things which you absolutely need:
Tomato ( we used Hunt's crushed tomato)
Mustard seeds
Oil
Salt

Things which can increase the flavor
Ginger-Garlix Paste
"Karuveepilai" (dont know the english equivalent of this)
Jeera (Cummin Seeds)
Turmeric Powder

To Prepare:

Heat oil
Put everything (except tomato and salt) into it
Once the mini-explosions are over due to mustard seeds, put tomato and salt. Becareful here as more mini-explosions are possible due to heated oil mixing with water of tomato.
Keep cooking till you no longer want to wait or till the raw tomato smell is over
PUt the cooked rice into it and mix well.

The "Verum Thakkali Sadam" is ready :)

Some hints: Use a non-stick vessel for cooking.