Palak rice is easy to make and tastes good even for those who are fussy to eat spinach, especially kids. In a short amout of time a tasty and healthy dish is ready. I cooked it one evening recently when I had only 10 - 15 min of time to cook simple meal, then had to rush out and return an hour later to eat dinner. I just did the prep, transferred to rice cooker for cooking (many thanks to those who invented these kitchen applicances with timers etc). By that time I returned, warm spinach rice was ready to serve with Raita!!!
Main Ingredients:
2 cups Basmati rice
3 cups fresh chopped Spinach
1/2 cup chopped onions
2 tbsp ginger & garlic paste
Salt to taste
1 green chilli or to taste (or substitute with chilli powder)
2 tsp lemon juice - optional
3 & 2/3 cups water (little less than double the rice quantity) or
per the requirement for the rice variety being used.
(substitute 1 cup water with fat free milk)
Spices:
2 tsp oil
1.5 tsp coriander and cumin powder
1.5 tsp garam masala
Or if you have all of the following ingredients available use them to substitute garam masala.
- 2 sticks cunnamon
- 2 cardamom
- 5-6 cloves
- 2 anise seed
- 1/2 spoon shahjeera
Wash rice and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan. If using raw spices, add all those spices 1 thru 5 to the oil, fry for just a few seconds until you smell aroma. Add onions and fry 3 min or so in medium heat until transparent (if using garam masala powder, start off with frying onions).
Add ginger garlic paste and fry until golden brown. Add rice, chopped spinach and coriander jeerra powder to the onion mixute in the pan. Fry all ingredientts while mixing carefully for 3-5 min. Transfer these contents to rice cooker, add salt, lemon juice and water and cook until done. Fluff the rice and serve hot.
This rice is tasty and nutritious by itself and good even without any side dish or a curry. But goes well with ginger chutney (or any other pickle/chutney), cucumber raita, papad or even an omlette!!
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