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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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