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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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
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.
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:)
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..
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 🙂