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Spinach Rice | Palak Rice

5 from 9 votes
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

Method
 

  1. Wash the rice and cook it with adequate quantity of water in a pressure cooker..The rice cooked should be separate grains.
  2. Let the pressure release by itself. Keep the cooked rice in a wide pan.
  3. Clean the spinach and coriander. Wash them properly in water and chop them roughly. Blanch them for two minutes. Immerse in cold water.
  4. Grind spinach and coriander along with green chilli, ginger, garlic to a smooth paste.
  5. Cut onion finely.
  6. Take oil in a pan, add cumin to it. Thrown in cloves and cinnamon, put onion and saute for sometime.
  7. Now, add the paste to it and continue to saute, the raw smell of the spinach should not be present.
  8. Add salt, chilli powder and garam masala. Mix well, switch off the flame.
  9. 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.
  10. Spinach Rice / Palak rice is ready to serve.

Notes

Adding of garlic is optional.