Monday, January 26, 2009
Healthy Spinach Carrot Pulao / Palak Gajar Pulav
Spinach offers twice as much fiber as other greens. It is a good source of iron & loaded with vitamins and minerals, some of which are hard to find in other foods. For more info click here
I love making rice pulao with different combination of veggies..Here is the recipe of one of my favorite veggie combination in pulao..
Ingredients:-
Ghee or oil:- 2 tbsp
Cinnamon stick:- 1 inch
Black cardamom :- 2
Cloves:- 4
Cumin seeds/Jeera:- 1tsp
Carom seeds/Ajwain:- 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds:- 1/2 tsp
Ginger (chopped):- 1 tbsp
Onions ( Chopped):- 1/4 cup
Potato:- 1/2 cup (cut into small cubes)
Carrot (Grated):- 1/2 cup
Spinach:- 1 bunch (chopped roughly )
Salt as per taste
Red chilli powder:- 1/2 tsp
Garam masala:- 1 tsp
Rice:- 2 cups
Water :- 4 cups
Procedure:-
Wash the rice and set it aside.
1)Heat the ghee/oil in a pan, add Cinnamon, cardamom, cloves.
2) Add cumin, mustard and let it splutter.
3)Add ginger & onions , cook till onions are transparent.
4) Add potato and saute it for 2-3 minutes
5) Add carrot and spinach & cook for couple of minutes..
6)Add salt, red chilli powder & garam masala , mix it will.
7) Add rice and water and stir everything well..
8) Let it cook on high till water starts to bubble.
9) Simmer the heat and cook the rice till all the water is evaporated..
Serve hot with your favorite curry & curd
have never tried a combo of palak and gajar..sounds good..
ReplyDeleteSpinach are always lovely nutritious food..Thats a healthy n tasty Pulav Preety..:)
ReplyDeletewow, sounds delicious with this combo.
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Looks perfect, such a great healthy dish to have. Good one Preety! :)
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ReplyDeletepulav looks yummy preety!good way to eat spinach :)
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ReplyDeleteHEALTHY!! YUMMY!! Thanks for the recipe!!
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ReplyDeletePreety, You've shown a good delicious way to take spinach in. Nice recipe!
ReplyDelete-Priya
wow! looks yum!
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ReplyDeletelovely recipe .. healthy one too
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ReplyDeletelooks yummy :)healthy recipe
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ReplyDeleteGreat combo for gajar and spinach. Great posts too.
Thanks everyone for lovely comments
ReplyDeleteYes Supriya & Rajee that's my baby , now she is amost 16 month old..In the pic she was 3 months old..thanks for dropping by
I have both the main ingredients... will try this soon.
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ReplyDeletePulav looks delicious and healthy Preety.
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