After all that talk, I’m hungry. Let’s have a nice bowl of hot tomato spinach pulao, shall we? If you want to skip the stepwise pictures, you can scroll to the end of this post for the recipe in one place.If you want to check out more pulao recipes, then here’s my pressure cooker veg pulao, aloo capsicum pulao, palak khichdi recipe, and simple paneer pulao. You can also check out this Indian quinoa pulao recipe.
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 4 cups chopped green spinach
- 1 grated carrot
- 2 chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato paste (or add another tomato)
- 1 sliced onion
- 3 cloves chopped garlic
- 1 tbsp coriander powder / malli podi / dania powder
- 1 tsp jeera / jeerakam / cumin seeds
- 2 tsp red chilly powder
- 1 tbsb oil
- Roasted cashew nuts to garnish (optional)
- Salt to taste
- Heat oil and fry the onions and garlic for 3 mins. Add the tomatoes to this and cook well until soft and mashed.
- Add the coriander powder, cumin and red chilly powder. Mix well and fry for 2 mins.
- Add tomato paste to this, if using, and mix well.
- Add chopped spinach and grated carrot.
- Close and cook for 10 mins until soft.
- Add salt and cooked rice to this. Fold gently and serve after 3o mins, garnished with roasted cashew nuts.
- Serve tomato spinach pulao hot with papad or chips and raita.
Step by Step Spinach Tomato Pulao Recipe
First, chop 4 cups of green spinach, 2 tomatoes and grate 1 carrot and set aside.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadai
Add 1 sliced onion and 3 cloves of chopped garlic to this.
Fry until the onions turn transparent and brown slightly.
Time to bring out the 2 chopped tomatoes. Add these to the fried onions.
Cook well until the tomatoes have wilted and turned soft.
To this, add 1 tbsp coriander powder and 1 tsp jeera or cumin. Mix well.
Time to spice things up a bit. Bring out your red chilly powder and add about 2 tsp of that. Go on, dare yourself and add another tsp if you wish 😉
We’ve already added 2 tomatoes but since this is tomato spinach pulao, we will need a more dense tomato flavour. Canned tomato paste works best.
Add 1 tbsp of that and mix well. If you don’t want to use the paste, add 1 more large tomato in the first step.
To this, add the chopped spinach and..
.. grated carrot and mix well.
Close the kadai and let it cook on medium-low fire for about 10 mins. Don’t add any water, the spinach will give out its own water while cooking making the mixture soft.
Open kadai carefully after 10 mins and add salt.
Add about 3 cups cooked rice to this mixture. I used basmati rice but any rice will do, even warmed leftover rice.
Gently fold from one side so that the rice isn’t mashed up too much.
Garnish with some roasted cashews and serve hot. I roasted the cashew nuts in the microwave on medium power for a minute. Saves time and oil.
Serve tomato spinach pulao hot with papad or chips and raita.
For tomato spinach pulao recipe in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, etc please use the Google translate button in the sidebar.
Instead of cooked rice. After making the gravy cook the rice in that itself with required water added. When the rice is cooked in gravy itself it will have more flavour. You can use pressure cooker if you want.
that’s another way i make it too 🙂
Hi Nags,
Its always a big question mark for me as what to prepare for lunch to my husband who is fussy about food. He does not like tomato rice and even carrot rice.Prepared this tomato spinach rice and it became favorite rice for my husband.Prepared this thrice. In addition to the recipe, i have added cloves, bay leaf and cardamom it tasted too good.
Thank you
hi made this last nite..i was out of spinach so used pudina and i must tell you pudina and tomato are a wonderful combination. I never thought they would work but the rice turned out wonderful!!!
amazing website nags…i tried most of ur recipes ,everything came out soo good….thank u so much. i just fell in love with ur pics………keep going…..love to see more recipes….
channa receipe plz
I make THE WORST tomato rice ever. Your step by step makes it look doable. I am making this for dinner tonite. Will let you know how it turned out. You have an amazing website.
hope you try this tomato spinach rice 🙂 let me know if you do!
Nags, Amazing recipe. I made this for dinner yesterday. My husband and my 20 month old girl loved it:) Thank you and I love the step by step pics!!
Hi Nags,
I made this today for lunch…My husband loved it 🙂 And got donw in a jiffy!!
Nags, I just love you girl. Your website is deffa the best! I made this today 🙂 and cant wait to eat em all up! XXX Much love
Just love the way u present it step by step with the pictures.. Brilliant receipe..:)
This is fantastic.Its a wonderful way to learn for the first timers. Great Job!!
Hope you try the tomato spinach pulao recipe 🙂
Wow really delicious, consider yourself bookmarked!! Thankyou.
Thank you for trying and liking the tomato spinach pulao 🙂
Thanks it was excellent!
Nags, can we use any kind of spinach for this?
Janu, I have tried normal green spinach (shown here) and red amaranth leaves with this tomato spinach pulao recipe and both turn out very well. You could experiement with different kinds for change in flavours.
But it IS easy, isn't it 🙂
this is a nice twist to the good old Tomato rice .. I normally make spinach pulao with loags of spinach & tomatoes. I puree spinach so I get a nice green colored rice. This ones really good .. Bookmarked
It looks too good..Cute bowl 🙂
awesome!!! You have a whole lot of patience, Nags! Have made tomato rice and spinach rice separately, but never tried using them together.. sounds interesting. thanx for the idea 🙂
Lovely pic. You know I made a Toor Dal yesterday and from your Yellow dal recipe got the idea to spice it up with Amchur. Loved that touch. Thanks
Nags,
This looks so good, I just love spinach and its a new reason to get hold some bunches the next time I visit the market.
Looks delicious and healthy/ Love all your step by step pictures
yummy & delicious
Loved the last picture, looks pretty. Your step by step recipes are cool ( I can imagine the effort you put into this)
that looks very good, Nags! Love with tomato.. 🙂
Rich, colorful and healthy pulao
Looks yum
Thanks for your nice comments on my blog Nags
hb – I made these in Singapore, well before I came here 🙂
What a delicious pulav.. lovely presentation.. wonderfu step by step pics.. thank you!!
Hey Saumya, we usually have it with raita and pickle. My perima serves it with gujarati khadi which is slightly sweet and goes wonderfully well with this variety rice recipe. Try that!
Thanks for this recipe.It was very tasty! Me & My hubby both loved it. BTW, Wat do u suggest to team it with, like some curry or side dish?
Hey Saumya, we usually have it with raita and pickle. My perima serves it with gujarati khadi which is slightly sweet and goes wonderfully well with this variety rice recipe. Try that!
Thanks for this recipe.It was very tasty! Me & My hubby both loved it. BTW, Wat do u suggest to team it with, like some curry or side dish?
Looks healthy and yummy! I love your step by step pics and instructions.
This looks yummy and I would definitely try this out.
Hi Nags,
Just finished cooking Tomato Spinach Pulao….its turned out "yumm-azzzzzzinngggg"…so full of flavour and simply delicious!!! Love this recipe.It's going to be a regular at my place for sure.Keep up the amazing job.
Cheers
Rathi
Rathi – that's awesome 😀 Thanks so much for letting me know, really appreciate that and so glad you liked the spinach pulao recipe 🙂
Once Again a very easy yet superb tasty treat !!thanks a ton Nagz…
Hey I just came across your site and recipes on Stumbleupon…this is awesome.A lot of us forget how much variety one can spurn vegetarian food.Keep the great recipes coming. I am gonna try out your Tomato Spinach Pulao…will let you know how it turns out…
Cheers
Rathi
This sounds like a delicious way of using spinach in your meal. I will definitely try this. I am a sucker for any rice recipe!
Am trying to post a comment for the third time now 🙁 Browser's giving me a lot of trouble…Love you pics…tried your authentic tomato rice, turned out super ! Thanks !
Wandering – hahaha that's hilarious! I love palak paneer too and its TH's fave!! I make it quite often actually.
Soma – I click with one hand on the ladle and the other holding the camera. My camera is quite high so I have to go through so many blurred pictures before I get something remotely decent. Its not easy with the bad lighting in the kitchen. Its much easier to click with one hand for the baking pics, the light makes it so much better 🙂
That looks very inviting Nags!
Delicious…….
Awesome recipe & awesome pictures Nags!! looks so tempting & i love that wooden bowl:-)
Girl i do not know how you take photos at every step! but it really helps, it kinda sticks to the head & stays there.
Ugh, ugh, Nags, this looks so delicious!! my only problem with spinach is…when i hold it in my hands, it hypnotizes me and leads me into the kitchen and then i slip into a trance and 20 minutes later, i emerge from the kitchen with a plate of palak paneer in it. it happens on its own, so i cant even stop the damn proces. but…i…promise…to…try…this. promise!!
What a delicious pulav.. lovely presentation.. wonderfu step by step pics.. thank you!!
Thank u so much for posting the step by step procedure reaaly very useful…pics r real gud…
Easy and quick pulao. Your pictures managed me to feel hungry again 🙂
What a lovely pulao. Spinach is very helathy and full of nutrition.
I was searching for spniach musroom but couldn't find. DO you know the recipe. Thats a chinese one, made in soya sauce.
Good looking rice. You made all these at S'pore or India? I remember your mention about the bowl.
hb – I made these in Singapore, well before I came here 🙂
Lone Acorn – I do in fact. But I use a readymade sauce for that recipe, never tried it from scratch. I get the Wup mushroom soya sauce that is thick. If you add it to cooked mushroom and spinach that's tossed with some garlic, you are good to go. Its MSG free too!
Rich, colorful and healthy pulao
Looks yum
Thanks for your nice comments on my blog Nags
Looks good. Love the tomato paste shot- that looks like the kind we have over here in the states,
I may give this one a go this weekend.
-andrew
that looks very good, Nags! Love with tomato.. 🙂
perfect one nags…! I have moved to my new cooking blog. Please pick an award from my blog!!!
Thanks,
DiDo
Loved the last picture, looks pretty. Your step by step recipes are cool ( I can imagine the effort you put into this)
What a delicious and healthy dish!! I loved the step by step!
Yummy!!! Beautiful Clicks
thats a lovely pulav!!!Yummmmmmy.
yummy & delicious
Thanks guys! My camera weighs a lot and with one hand shooting, I have so many blurred pics which won't see the 'light' of day 😀
The bowl and fork are from Bali, handmade from coconut shells.
Looks delicious and healthy/ Love all your step by step pictures
Beautiful pics and lovely recipe. Great job 🙂
love the pulav dear, and step-by-step presentation is really good, for a person who is new to cooking, very good, one hand shots, amazing, i try to do all kind of stunts but i get fed up and that's why my snaps are awful
or otherwise i have to mascafy my kids to do it for me hahah…
I love the presentation..,
Hi nags,
Visiting your blog after a very long time. I liked your step by step recipes. I really like the inclusion of spinach with the tomato. Looks very appetizing.
Nags,
This looks so good, I just love spinach and its a new reason to get hold some bunches the next time I visit the market.
perfect for bachelor samiyal!
Ohhh – step-by-step – BRAVO! I always wonder how you geniuses do these things, my camera would fall into the flame or right into a gravy if I attempted these one-hand action shots. Great recipe, great way to sneak in greens into the kids plates. I have to try this out!
Nice pictures 🙂 The rice looks delicious.
Lovely pic. You know I made a Toor Dal yesterday and from your Yellow dal recipe got the idea to spice it up with Amchur. Loved that touch. Thanks
The feel altogether was being at your place and having a bowl of awesome pulao you made..thats such a fruitful effort.The pictures from your kitchen are not at all bad..
It is such a wonderful combo!And I love the cute serving bowl you have:)Do you watch Seinfeld by any chance..Yada Yada??!!
Awesome combinations! its always good to have step by step instructions..wish i was half as patient as you are 🙂
awesome!!! You have a whole lot of patience, Nags! Have made tomato rice and spinach rice separately, but never tried using them together.. sounds interesting. thanx for the idea 🙂
I never mix spinach and tomato but with rice it sounds greatnice step by step pic. very useful post.
Step by step recipes really time taking and need a good amount of patience. Love pulav in any form.:)
I had made Spinch pulao recently and had come out well, I love your step by step presentation and I am very sure the rice has to taste Good.
It looks too good..Cute bowl 🙂
Nags..last snapis amazing… :)healthy recipe.. 🙂
You won't believe this… I was linking the buns recipe to my chocolate cookies recipe for this year's janmashtami… and I went through the comments. I saw yours… then reached your first bread baking post. And wondered if you made the chocolate chip buns then… meant to leave you a note, but was in a hurry to finish posting before rushing off to the karaoke!
Glad you liked the buns.
the pulao looks great!
Nice to c step to step pics nags….loved all the pic….Rice looks delicious…
this is a nice twist to the good old Tomato rice .. I normally make spinach pulao with loags of spinach & tomatoes. I puree spinach so I get a nice green colored rice. This ones really good .. Bookmarked
Step by step recipes are back again and how..:)
Greens and me don't see eye to eye,though I have started cooking with it reluctantly.Mixing it up with tomato would hide some of spinach's overpowering taste I guess:).You make it seem so easy..:)
Hope you are having a great time in Kottayam:)
Loved the step by step pictorial. Looks delicious and healthy.
Recipe sounds really good,I today tried a new recipe for tomato rice,OMG,terrible it came out….!!
If u wud have posted forenoon,I wud have tried this no,I have all in hand 😛
But it IS easy, isn't it 🙂