SPINACH AND CHICK PEAS PULAO

Ingredients :

Palak roughly chopped – 1 cup

Green chillies – 5

Coriander leaves roughly chopped – ¼ cup

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp

Cooked Chick peas – 1/4 cup

Basmati rice soaked in water for 10 mins – 1 and ½ cups

Salt to taste

Water – 2 and ½ cups

Ghee – ½ tbsp. + 3 tbsp

Sliced onions - 1

Method :

1)     In a pressure cooker take ghee and sauté the palak, green chillies, ginger garlic paste and the coriander leaves for 2 mins, make sure the colour doesn’t change

2)     Make a puree of this

3)     In the same cooker take 3 tbsp ghee, sauté onions  till they become light pink

4)     Add the chick peas and sauté for 5 mins

5)     Add salt and the soaked rice and sauté for 5 mins

6)     Add the spinach puree and 2 and ½ cups of water and cook for 1 whistle

7)     Once cooled, fluff it with a fork and serve hot with carrot pachdi

Note :

you can even add little chopped spinach. I felt the spinach was a bit less and i did not have time to again saute it, so i added some and it turned out good