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Spinach Rice | Palak Rice

Spinach rice / Palak rice is a flavoursome rice dish ideal to serve for lunch or dinner.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Rice
  • 1 cluster Spinach
  • handful of coriander
  • 2 green chilli
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 onion
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 stick cinnamon
  • 3 cloves
  • 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  • Wash the rice and cook it with adequate quantity of water in a pressure cooker..The rice cooked should be separate grains.
  • Let the pressure release by itself. Keep the cooked rice in a wide pan.
  • Clean the spinach and coriander. Wash them properly in water and chop them roughly. Blanch them for two minutes. Immerse in cold water.
  • Grind spinach and coriander along with green chilli, ginger, garlic to a smooth paste.
  • Cut onion finely.
  • Take oil in a pan, add cumin to it. Thrown in cloves and cinnamon, put onion and saute for sometime.
  • Now, add the paste to it and continue to saute, the raw smell of the spinach should not be present.
  • Add salt, chilli powder and garam masala. Mix well, switch off the flame.
  • Add half the quantity of rice and mix it gently. Further, putĀ  rice accordingly as per your taste. The plain steamed rice can be eaten with dal.
  • Spinach Rice / Palak rice is ready to serve.

Notes

Adding of garlic is optional.