Friday, December 16, 2011

Spinach, Peas & Paneer(Cottage Cheese) Brown Rice

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Brown rice was the every day food in my house couple of years before. It’s been almost two years since Quinoa, replaced this wonderful grain. There are lot of posts still lying in my draft with brown rice as the star ingredient. I love this grain and even though I don’t cook with it very often like before now, I do make dishes occasionally using this high fiber grain.  If you include brown rice in your diet do try this recipe out and I am sure you are going to love it.  Do not forget to presoak your brown rice, I normally soak it for 12-18 hours.



Preparation Time – 20 Minutes

Cooking Time – 30 to 45 Minutes

Serves – 3 to 4





Ingredients





Brown Basmati Rice – 1 1/4 Cup(Soaked for 12-18 hours, rinsed and drained)

Spinach – 1 Bunch(Rinsed, drained, thick stalks removed and chopped)

Frozen thawed peas – 3/4 Cup

Paneer(Indian style cottage cheese cubes) – 3/4 Cup

Coconut Oil or clarified butter (ghee) – 1 Tbsp

Turmeric powder – 1/2 Tsp

Yogurt Sour – 1/3 Cup

Salt – 1 Tsp or to taste

Green Chili  & Coriander Paste (Handful of coriander(cilantro), green chili 2 or to taste, 1/2 tsp fennel seeds ground into a coarse to fine paste)

Water – 3 Cups

Cashews – 1 Tbsp

Cinnamon stick, Star Anise, Clove – 2, 1, 1 each







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Method





1) Heat a Tsp of oil in a thick bottomed pan, add the cinnamon stick, star anise, clove and once they are slightly brown and fragrant add the green peas and saute for  5 minutes.



2) Now add the spinach and saute for 2-3 minutes. Now to this add the soaked and drained brown rice, water, salt, turmeric powder, chili & cilantro paste, yogurt and cover and cook stirring in between.



3) Once the rice is 3/4 Cooked and still with some water add the paneer(cottage cheese) cubes and cook till the rice is well cooked and the water is all absorbed.



4) Heat the rest of the oil and fry the cashews till golden and transfer the cashews with the oil to the cooked rice and mix gently and thoroughly with a fork and serve hot with raita(yogurt dip) of your choice.



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25 comments:

Archana said...

wow looks yum.

Reshmi Mahesh said...

Healthy green recipe...yum...

Gauri said...

I cook brown rice quite often, thanks for posting this recipe never this green rice with brown rice.

Vardhini said...

I have never cooked with brown rice .. yummy and healthy Sadhana.

Vardhini
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Christy Gerald said...

Yumm and healthy Brown rice Recipe Dear.Luv it

Reva said...

Rice looks yummy..:) Perfect lunch box recipe..:)
Reva

faseela said...

yum..yum..super tempting rice

NiVi said...

dish looks yummy.. thank you for visiting my blog...

Anisha said...

This is so tempting.

Kalpana Sareesh said...

very yummy rice recipe..

Maayeka said...

Tempting ,healthy and delicious brown rice ..will try this soon..

Anzz said...

This would make a great dinner. The colors are lovely and the flavors sound great. We have completed 1 year in blogging. would love to thank you for your comments, words of encouragement and support during this time. thanx..!

Prathima Rao said...

Yummy & healthy rice!!! Perfect dinner recipe...
Prathima Rao
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Miriam said...

It looks healthy AND delicous! Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters

Sobha Shyam said...

great combo, super delicious and healthy rice..

Kaveri said...

Healthy and delicious looking rice...Nice recipe

Jay said...

wonderful presentation of flavors...yummmy..:)
Tasty Appetite

Priya said...

Super healthy and definitely a satisfying rice.

Chitra said...

Nice!! perfect for lunch box..

Priya Sreeram said...

Lovely recipe and wonderful yummy platter !

anthony stemke said...

A tasty way to use brown rice; healthy and delicious at once.

Deeps @ Naughty Curry said...

sounds so healthy, and looks very pretty & colourful :)

Anonymous said...

when to add yougurt??

Deeps @ Naughty Curry said...

yum! i love palak paneer & this dish reminds me of that... very nice recipe :)

maha said...

very healthy and yum rice dish..love the green colour!!!!!

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