Chef Ak in failure - Tomato Rice

Ah... my first official failure after nearly a month doing practical in my cooking life. I was reading newspaper during my lunch time in office yesterday when I stumble upon Heinz tomatoes advertisement showing how to cook tomato rice. I thought to myself, why not? It seems easy enough. So I bought all the ingredient needed when I am on my way back after working and started the cooking process. 1. Fry the garlic, shallots, chili and fresh cut tomatoes. 2. Add in chicken chunk and fry for 5 minutes. 3. Add in turmeric powder and tomatoes puree/paste 4. Pour in water and add salt to taste and let it cook for another 10 minutes. Then I transferred it into rice cooker and happily waiting to try out the tomato rice. Not even 5 minute have I pressed the cook button, it jumps up indicating the rice is already cook. Immediately I sense something is so wrong. When I open the rice cooker lid, sure enough the rice is still in grain form totally uncooked. Damn! Btw, in case you don’t know, when the rice is cooked, you cannot press ‘Cook’ again because the darn button will pop back to ‘Warm’ like a stubborn child. I waited for the button to pop up back thinking to cook it again but it failed to pop up. So I took the whole pot to cook under gas stove. Apparently I found out that the rice cooker jumps up before the rice are cook is because of the tomato liquid too thick. So I add in a big cup of water but it ended up a little too wet. Alas, after 10 minutes of cooking, the rice turnout to be still on soft side likes congee. The smell on the rice cooker pot is already burnout and crusty. I thought it's useless to cook anymore as the bottom part has already badly burnout. We still could eat it but it's just a little soft. The taste will have been rather good if the rice is properly cooked. What I found out in the net is actually not easy to cook tomato rice. Even some veteran cook in the net sometime failed in making tomato rice as the paste must not be too thick or too watery. Here is the link A lesson learned. This is obviously an F grade. Ohh, and the damn pot are still in burnout black condition after 3 times of washing it yesterday night. Anyone want to sponsor me a new pot perhaps?