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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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
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 🙂