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 calories
carbohydrate: 82.5 g
cholesterol: : -
fat: 4.4 g
fiber: 3.2 g
protein: 8.3 g
saturatedFat: 0.7 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 120.2 mg
sugar: 4.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Mix rice, coriander powder, and salt into spinach mixture until evenly combined. Transfer rice mixture to a rice cooker and add water.

  4. Cook spinach rice in the rice cooker according to manufacturer's instructions, about 20 minutes.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

Easy tasty main dish.

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