Spinach Rice | Keerai Sadham

Spinach Rice : Today’s recipe is simple yet very healthy spinach rice, very kids friendly recipe. When I use spinach to make keerai masiyal, my little one sometimes hesitate to take it with plain rice. He likes Biryani/Variety Rice much, so long time back I tried this spinach rice especially for him. After that weekly once I make this healthy rice for him and he loves it by saying “Amma Green Rice” :-). Also this is a great lunch box special for school going kids too..

Recipe Source :- Own

Ingredients

Spinach – Half Bunch from one small bunch
Rice – 1 Cup
Onion – 1 Medium Size
Green Chili – 1 Number (If you feel spicy skip red chili in the dry roast list below)
Chana and Urad Dhal – 1n1/2 Tbsp
Curry Leaves – Few
Oil or Ghee – 1n1/2 Tbsp

To Dry Roast n Powder
Red chili – 1 Number
Pepper Corns – 1tsp
Cumin – 1 n 1/2tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1tsp
Salt – 1/2tsp

Method

Dry roast the ingredients given above and powder it fine(Pic 1).
Clean, Wash and puree the spinach to nice paste, don’t add water.
Also I add thin spinach stems, if you wish u can add so…
In a kadai/pan add oil and when it is hot add dal, saute till golden brown.
Now add chopped onion, curry leaves, ground powder and pureed spinach(Pic 2).
Saute the mixture till raw smell disappears from spinach.
In the pressure cooker add Rice, Sautéed stuff, salt(Pic 3) and necessary water, 1:2 for Rice : Water.
Allow 3 hisses and if needed you can soak rice for few minutes before start cooking.
When pressure goes off, mix well(Pic 4) then serve it hot.