Whole Tomato Rice 蕃茄饭

Recently, this Whole Tomato Rice recipe from Japan is very popular in Facebook page and on the internet as it is a SUPER simple and easy meal to prepare, yet delicious! You just dump everything in the rice cooker, press the cook/start button and that's it..........that simple!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Uncooked rice (long grain or short grain or brown rice etc)
• 1 Whole Tomato (big and ripe)
• 2 tsp Olive oil/Vegetable oil
• 3/4 - 1 tsp Salt, or to taste 
• 1/4 tsp Pepper, or to taste

I added some canned sweet corn with the rice.

Note: It is good enough as it is but you may add any meat, basil leaves, onion, celery, sweet corn etc to add more flavour.

Method:

Note: I will usually steam my rice over the stove, the method use will be the same as per rice cooker.

• Wash tomato and remove the stem. Set aside.

• Wash rice and add water according to the normal amount, then remove 6 Tbsp of water from pot as the tomato contains water (or just add slightly less water than your normal amount).

• Add in oil, salt and pepper. Mix well.

• Add in sweet corn. Mix well.

• Place the tomato in the center of the pot.

• Place the pot in the rice cooker, cover and press the cook/start button (in my case, I steamed the rice for 25 minutes).

• When it's done, mash the tomato with rice paddle and toss well.

• Serve immediately. Itadakimasu! いただきます (means "Let's eat", "Bon appétit"  or "Thanks for the food" in Japanese). 

Serving with fried egg

Second day, I couldn't help but made another version with meat and mushroom. It is a complete meal with vegetable and meat (It will take slightly longer time to steam the rice).

HAPPY BAKING AND COOKING!