Spinach Mint rice

 Preparation Time: 5 minutes

 Cook Time: 30 minutes

 Ingredients:

 4 cups of chopped spinach

 1 cup of Chopped Mint

 2 cups of rice (Sona Masoori or Basmati Rice)

 5 green chilies

3 teaspoons of oil

 Tempering: 3 Cardamom pods, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 bay leaf, 3 flower pods, 1 teaspoon of Jeera

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 slice of ginger

3 garlic pods

 salt as needed

 Steps to Prepare:

• In a large pan, put oil and all the tempering ingredients. Add Chopped spinach/mint/Ginger/Garlic pods and fry well.
• Keep the fried ingredients on a side. Let them cool for 2-3 minutes and blend them. Keep the paste aside.
• In the same pan, put oil. Add 1/2 cup of chopped onions.
• Add split green chilies.
• Add Spinach/mint paste. Sauté for 2-3 minutes. As the spinach is already cooked, we would not need more cook time.
• Now, if we would like to prepare this in a pressure cooker, instead of Pan we can directly Saute it in pressure cooker. I generally use instant pot to prepare this, so I either Saute directly in instant pot or transfer the fried spinach/mint paste to instant pot pan.
• Now, in the instant pot pan, for every cup of rice add 2 cups of water. Here I am adding 4 cups of water for 2 cups of rice.
• Allow the water to boil.
• Now, add salt and pressure cook.
• Spinach Mint Rice is ready to serve.
• Serve it with Yogurt Raita and papad.