Sweet Corn Tomato Bhat / Sweet Corn Tomato Rice ~ Easy Lunch Box Recipe !

     
Day 3 of Blogging Marathon under the theme " Easy Kids Lunch Recipes - Rice" . Today's recipe is also a very quick n delicious recipe with sweet corn n tomato. One of the fav ingredient of kids n most of the adults is Sweet Corn. And of course its favorite of my boys, they really love to each corns a lot. So i took sweet corn n tomato as the key ingredient and sauted with light masala to a interesting and yummy dish. This was super hit at my home n my boys loved this rice and asked me to make this more often :) I served this sweet corn tomato bath with plain yogurt n fryums. Now to the recipe...

Ingrdients

1. Cookied rice    1 cup (i used basmati rice)
2. Sweet corn   1/2 cup or less (i used frozen)
3. Tomato   1/2 cup (tomato paste - grind 1 large tomato)
4. Onion  1 small (sliced)
5. Green chilli    2 no.(slitted)
6. Garlic    5 cloves(chopped)
7. Cilantro     2 tbsp (finely chopped)
8. Kashmiri chili powder    3/4 tsp
9. Garam masala     1/4 tsp
10. Turmeric   a small pinch
11. Salt    to taste

To temper

1. Oil    2 tbsp
2. Mustard seeds   1/2 tsp
3. Chana dal    1 tsp
4. Fennel seeds    1/2 tsp
5. Curry leaves   few

Method

• Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add the tempering ingredients and wait till it pop n fry lightly till dal turns light golden brown.

• Then add green chili n chopped garlic and saute for a minute.

• After that add onions and saute for 1-2 minute and add tomato paste and saute for 2-3 minutes.

• Now add sweet corn and stir well and add turmeric,chili n garam masala powder and stir fry for 1-2 minutes.

• After that sprinkle water n add enough salt and cook covered for a minute.
• And add cooked rice and mix everything gently and cook covered for 1 minute and lastly add some chopped cilantro n turn off the stove.
• That's it Delicious Sweet corn Tomato Bhat is ready. Serve with raitha/plain curd n fryums or simply with some baked chips like i did :)

Notes: 

• Instead of Sweet corn you can make this tomato bhat with fresh or frozen peas also.
• Garam masala can be replaced with any desired spice powder like, sambar powder, chicken masala or curry masala powder.

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#13

also sending it to the event, to the event, Cooking With Seeds~Corn by Shylaja an event by Priya.