Quick and Easy Spinach Rice (Palak Rice) recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, or as needed 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1 small onion, minced 1 large carrot, minced 4 green chile peppers, chopped 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste 1 ½ cups fresh spinach 2 cups uncooked white rice 1 teaspoon roasted coriander powder 1 pinch salt, or to taste 4 ½ cups water, or more as needed
Nutrition Info
- 409.6 caloriescarbohydrate: 82.5 gcholesterol: : -fat: 4.4 gfiber: 3.2 gprotein: 8.3 gsaturatedFat: 0.7 gservingSize: -sodium: 120.2 mgsugar: 4.1 gtransFat: : -unsaturatedFat: : -
Directions Quick and Easy Spinach Rice (Palak Rice)
Directions
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Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat, cook and stir cumin seeds until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add onion, carrot, and green chile peppers, cook and stir until slightly tender, about 5 minutes. Add ginger-garlic powder and cook for about 5 minutes.
Pulse spinach leaves in a blender until a paste forms. Add spinach paste to onion mixture, cook and stir until all the water has evaporated from the spinach, 2 to 3 minutes.
Mix rice, coriander powder, and salt into spinach mixture until evenly combined. Transfer rice mixture to a rice cooker and add water.
Cook spinach rice in the rice cooker according to manufacturer's instructions, about 20 minutes.