Vegetarianism: Tomato Rice

A Facebook post on cooking tomato rice using rice cooker captured my attention. It looked simple and fuss free enough for me to give it a try. One thing to note, I deviated the amount of seasoning and water used from those suggested by the YouTube[1].

Ingredients:
1 tomato (pick a big one place of at least the size of your palm)
2 cups rice
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp olive oil
Water

Steps:

1. Wash 2 cups of rice and add water as indicated by the rice cooker.
2. Add 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp olive oil. Mix well.
3. Remove stem from tomato and it on top the mixture with stem side faced down.
4. Once cooked, stir the tomato into the rice and serve.

Step 3: Ready to commence cooking

Step 4: Mixed well and ready to serve

As compared to plain rice, this is definitely more nutritious if you are in a rush to get a meal ready. It has the fresh tomato smell, yet not over powering. A really quick way to boost the amount of carotene lycopene[1] (a very powerful antioxidant) and vitamin A in a meal~

Bon appetit!

References:

1. YouTube - How to make whole tomato rice
2. Wikipedia - Tomato