Spinach Rice

This is simple and healthy dish. It’s a combination of rice, green leaves and some spices. This goes very well with any veggie fry.

Ingredients

Chopped Green Leaves/ Spinach – 2 Cups

Garlic Pods – 5

Green Chillies – 3

Chopped Tomato – 1

Salt to taste

Garam Masala – ½ tsp

Basmati Rice – 1 Cup

Bay Leaf – 1

Cinnamon Sticks – 1 inch

Cardamom Seed – 1

Clove – 3

Ghee – 3 tsp

Finely Chopped Onion – 1
To Temper
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Dry Red Chilli - 2
Oil -1 tsp

Method

In a pressure cooker, add rice, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom seed and 1 and ½ cups water and cook this until 2 whistles coms out. Once it done, let it cool down completely.

In a pan, add chopped spinach, green chillies, garlic pods, tomato and salt with few drops of water. Then cook for few minutes, then switch of the flame. Let it cool down and grind it as paste.

Heat ghee in a pan, add sliced onions and fry for few minutes. Add the cooked rice and fry well. Then add the ground paste, garam masala and mix well. Make sure, the greens masala coated well with rice.

Heat oil in a pan, add the tempering ingredients one by one and fry it for few seconds. Then transferred into rice. Sprinkle some ghee for extra fragrance and serve hot.