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.
Tomato Spinach Pulao Recipe
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- 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.
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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…