Green Rice (Spinach mint brown rice)
About:
This is a simple and light dish, which is cooked in spinach and mint gravy. So the minty flavour alongside the taste of spinach remains distinct throughout 🙂 you could perhaps prepare the greens previous night if your mornings are packed and do the rest of the procedure the next morning.
Health benefits:
The possible health benefits of consuming spinach include improving blood glucose control in diabetics, lowering the risk of cancer, lowering blood pressure, improving bone health, lowering the risk of developing asthma and more.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 25-30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Brown rice-1 cup (soak atleast for an hour before cooking)
- Blanched spinach-1cup
- Finely chopped mint -1/4cup
- Onion-1num
- Green capsicum-1num
- Black cumin seeds-1tsp
- Whole garam masala – (Clove-4-5pods, Cinnamon-1 inch stick,Cardamom-1num)
- Green chilli-4-5num
- Ginger-1 inch
- Garlic-5-6pods
- Salt to taste
Procedure:
- Add blanched spinach, mint, chilli, onion, garlic, ginger, whole garam masala and blend it to the fine paste and set aside.
- Heat a non stick pan on high; Add cumin seeds then reduce the flame
- Add onion saute 2-3 minutes then add capsicum and stir/fry for another 4-5 minutes.
- Now add the ground spinach puree and cook for 5-7 minutes
- Drain the water from the soaked rice and add the rice into the pan and stir for 1-2 minutes.
- Add 2 cups of hot water, salt and cook on high flame for up to 10 minutes and then reduce the flame to medium and cook until the rice is cooked.
Serve hot with Falxseed Raita (Recipe Click here)
Note:
- Brown rice take more time to cook than white rice so it might take 15-20 mins to cook completely
- Use the normal Jeera if black cumin is not available.
- Blanching spinach is cook spinach for 20-30 seconds in hot water and immediately run cold water on it/ transfers it to the bowl of cold water to stop further cooking.
- Can use white rice instead of brown rice
Posted on December 11, 2014, in Indian, Main dish and tagged Brown rice recipe, Chitras healthy kitchen, drchdietfood, Spinach mint brown rice. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
Awesome and healthy combination, Chitra! Looks good too.
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Thank you Apsara. .. 🙂
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I am going to make this for tomorrow lunch…can I use coriander leaves instead of mint ????? I am not very fond of mint……..one more thing………should I need 2 onions ?????? one for grinding and one for frying ???? and capsicum should be diced, right ??????? will give you the feedback tomorrow 😉 🙂
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Dear – apologies for delayed response…yes Coriander can be used and 2 onions are required as you rightly said…Capsicum should be diced…await to hear outcome..
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I love your recipes I will try mint rice
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Thank you so much Prasanna for your compliments and support…
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I don’t know anyone else who posts as many recipes as you do, you go girl! 🙂
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Thank you Jen…Amazing people like yours support and feedback…motivation adds energy for the work…
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WordPress is a great loving and supportive community! I have really enjoyed it so far.
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Me too
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Reblogged this on vrisha.
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Thank you
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