Spinach Rice Recipe | Keerai Sadam Recipe | Kids lunch box recipe

Spinach Rice Recipe | Keerai Sadam Recipe | Kids lunch box recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Spinach Rice is healthy and easy lunch box recipe made with any variety of spinach. It is good to take spinach in any form regularly as it has lot of health benefits. I always make sure to include them one or twice a week. I usually make keerai poriyal, keerai kootu or add them in any type of snacks.

My daughter deeksha doesn't like most of the vegetables. So I always look for different ways to include them. Mostly I will puree them and add to chapati dough or use them in pulao, biryani or any type of rice. Spinach rice is one of her regular lunch box recipes and she now likes to eat it. It is very easy to prepare and then mix with cooked rice. 

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Spinach Rice Recipe | Keerai Sadam Recipe | Kids lunch box recipe

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Spinach Rice is healthy and easy lunch box recipe make with any variety of spinach.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Servings 0

Ingredients

  

• Cooked rice 4 cups
• Spinach 3 cups
• Green chilli 1
• Cumin ½ tsp
• Salt as required
• Tamarind 1 tsp
• Oil 2 tsp
• Keerai vadagam 1 tsp or
• Mustard ¼ tsp
• Urad dal ¼ tsp
• Onion 1 small

Instructions

 

• Clean and wash the spinach
• Take spinach, green chilli, cumin and salt in a pan along with ½ cup of water.
• Allow it to boil till it shrinks
• Allowit to cool down and add to mixer
• Add tamarind to it
• Grind to smooth paste.
• Heat oil and temper with keerai vadagam.
• Once it splutters add the finely chopped onions.
• Saute till transparent and add spinach puree.
• Mix and allow it to quick boil. Adjust the salt.
• Take cooked rice in a bowl
• Add spinach purée and mix till combined
• Healthy and delicious spinach rice is ready.

Notes

Add little ghee while mixing for kids

You can use any variety of spinach. I used amarnath leaves

Can add garlic while boiling the spinach.

Increase the spiciness according to your preference. Measurement given is very mild perfect for kids.

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How to make Spinach Rice with step by step pictures

Clean and wash the spinach

Take spinach, green chilli, cumin and salt in a pan along with ½ cup of water.

Allow it to boil till it shrinks

Allow it to cool down and add to mixer

Add tamarind to it

Grind to smooth paste.

Heat oil and temper with keerai vadagam.

Once it splutters add the finely chopped onions.

Saute till transparent and add spinach puree.

Mix and allow it to quick boil. Adjust the salt.

Take cooked rice in a bowl

Add spinach purée and mix till combined

Healthy and delicious spinach rice is ready.