Keerai Rice / Spinach Rice

Keerai / spinach rice is a another type of variety rice. It is a heathly greens rice recipe... Its a simple one pot dish loaded with nutrition from the greens... I used basmathi rice for spinach rice preparation Normal rice should also be used for this recipe. Healthy and delicious rice with spinach is serve with mushroom saute, it is a best combo meals. I have mostly eaten spinach in the form of masiyal, poriyal, kootu during childhood days.

Spinach / keerai rice is one of my all time healthy and favourite dish to make. I make it quite often to serve it with veg - gravies. This recipe is my own thinking because my kids didn't like spinach. But in this recipe spinach blend with the rice and fennel seeds gives best flavour to this recipe. 

You have a hearty one pot meals to feed your family so try this recipe and let me give me a comment about this recipe...

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Serve : 4 -5

INGREDIENTS:

Spinach / Arai keerai - 1 bunch (cleaned and chopped finely)

Basmathi Rice - 1 cup (soak for 15 mins)

Onion - 1 (sliced)

Green Chilli - 4 (sliced)

Ginger garlic paste - 1 spn

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn

Sombu - 1/2 tspn

Cinnamon - 2 (small sticks)

Salt - As per need

Ghee - 3 tbspn

Coconut milk - 1 1/2 cup

METHOD:

• Wash greens and chopped finely and keep aside.
• Grind coconut in a blender and take coconut milk. keep aside.
• Wash and soak the rice for 15 mins and keep aside.
• In a pressure cooker add ghee when it heat add cinnamon, sombu, cumin seeds and mix them well.
• Add onion and chillies, saute it for a min.
• Now add in ginger garlic paste toss them well.
• Then add in chopped greens and soaked rice 
• Give a gentle mix in the oil. Then add in salt.
• Now add in coconut milk and mix well and whistled it for 2. 
• Open it, now fluff them evenly and then transfer to the plate.
• Now healthy spinach rice is ready to serve hot...

PICTORIAL :

Take your greens

Wash and chopped finely

Take your ingredients

Heat a pan with ghee 

Add in cinnamon, sombu

Cumin seeds and allow to crackle

Now add in sliced onion and chillies

Toss well in the ghee

Now add in ginger garlic paste

Add in greens

Toss well for 1 mihns

Add in soaked rice

A good amount of salt

Mix gently

Now add in coconut milk

Mix well

Close the lid and whistled for 2

Now its done

Fluff the carefully

It's ready

Serve hot

Enjoy enjoy....