Thursday, May 14, 2009

Spinach /Palak Rice

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Ingredient's :


2cups basamati rice
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/2 tsp garlic minced
1tbs ginger chopped
1tsp jeera
1Cinnamon stick
3-4 cloves
1 large onion chopped
1tomato nicely chopped
1cup fresh spinach
2-3 green chillies
2tbs oil
salt to taste
coriander leaves

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Method :

1) Micro oven the spinach and green chillies ,make fine paste using blender and keep it aside .
2) Soak the basamati rice for 1/2 an hour .

3) Pour 2 tbs oil in a pressure cooker, once the oil get's hotter add cumin seeds ,1 cinnamon stick, couple of cloves .
4) Then add chopped ginger , garlic ,onion saute till it turns brown then add sliced tomato, green peas and spinach paste.let it cook for 2-3 minutes .
5) Add the soaked rice to the above mixture and pour a cup of water, put the salt per taste.
6) Close the pressure cooker and put the wight and let it cook well.
7) Once the cooking is all done serve with fresh corinder leves on the top and raitha.Enjoi

40 comments:

Priya Suresh said...

Gorgeous Spinach rice yaa!!!Beautiful clicks!

Vishali said...

nice decoration and wonderful spinach rice da....love it!

You have a nice weekend.

Subhie Arun said...

grt presentation..healthy dish too..looks mouthwatering..

Mahimaa's kitchen said...

mouthwatering rice and wonderful clicks.

sathya said...

Wow lovely rice mangala, love the colour and pictures :)

Pavithra Elangovan said...

Gorgeous and fabulous its looking so good and nice arrangement. wonderful photos mangala.

Varsha Vipins said...

wow...This is so easy n healthy Mangalu..:P..I luv the way the grains look..:)

kittymatti said...

Lovely recipe and awesome presentation!!

Pooja said...

Nice presentation..yummy rice..

Poornima Nair said...

Awesome recipe, rice looks delicious. I love that silver bowl, great presentation.

Suparna said...

Hi Mangala
Great way of greens intake mangala :) nangu palak rice ishta raita jote yeshtu plate bekidru finish madtene ;) aa bowl anne nodtidde ri....tumba beautiful aagide, clicks kooda superb!!
Happy weekend
TC

Renus Kitchen said...

wonderful recipe and nice presentation....

Lena Jayadev said...

wowww...healthy rice...wonderful presentation as usual..

Lakshmi said...

Nice way of using palak, and loved the color of rice :)

Ammu said...

Dear mangala, ur serving bowl looks cute. Tempting post with lovely pictures.

Unknown said...

so beautifuly decorated spinach rice and delicious recipe

Raks said...

As usual neat pictures! This tempts to try and taste the rice!!

Parita said...

Love that bowl...very healthy and delicious dish..superb presentation

sundresh said...

looks great ! will surely try it out!!

Ramya Vijaykumar said...

Wow nice pic's Mangala... Rice looks divine and tempting!!! Nice color!!!

Indian Khana said...

Lovely pic...looks yummy

saffronapron.blogspot.com said...

Spinach rice looks nice Mangala and as usual your pics too are good.

Unknown said...

Healthy n delicious rice!!

Savi-Ruchi said...

lovely presentation & palak rice looks delicious.

chef and her kitchen said...

Wow lovely rice n so cutely decorated in the silver bowl...yummy...

ARUNA said...

gorgeous dish and gorgeous pics!!!

Vani said...

Love the silver, Magala. So pretty! The bhath looks great!

Vrinda said...

Never tried palak rice combo..looks so great with gorgeous presentation

Chitra said...

spinach rice in MW..sure will give a try and let u know.Have bookmarked it!!

AnuSriram said...

Lovely recipe.. looks inviting!

Usha said...

Looks lovely and inviting...

Chef Jeena said...

Hi Mangala you have a lovely food blog the recipes are delicious, I especially love this spinach rice dish it looks so tasty. :-)

Nithya Praveen said...

Aaahh lovely!.Am back and i realized i missed out on too many recipes of yours.The mango recipe was sumtng that made me tempted alot.Shall try soon.I made spinach rice a while ago,have posted it in my blog too,its so different to urs.As usual,ur presentation makes the dish all the more appealing.Good going girl!

Pooja said...

The spinach rice looks so delicious and inviting!

Anonymous said...

Yummy and delicious rice.Wonderful presentation.

Purva Desai said...

First time to this delicious blog.....this is one power packed and iron rich rice.....nice click

Kalyani said...

Wow spinach rice ... looks delicious & great pictures ......

Ramya's Mane Adige said...

Delicious!!!! I usually make methi rice... but never got myself to try palak rice somehow. Bookmarking it right away!

Home Cooked Oriya Food said...

Lovely clicks and great recipe...

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I have made methi rice before but it in a different way. Spinach rice I have not tried, looks very good and easy to make.