Wednesday 23 October 2013

Pumpkin Rice



Delicious and tasty spinach and pumpkin rice.

Ingredients:

250g / 8 oz white basmati rice
500 ml boiling water
100g fresh baby spinach
1 white onion finely sliced
3 oz finely diced pumpkin
1 medium potato peeled and finely diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 green chillies finely chopped



Method:

1. Wash the rice and soak it in cold water for 30 minutes.
2. Wash the spinach leaves and remove the stalks, place the spinach in a blender with 2 tablespoons water and blend to form a paste.
3.In a large pan heat the oil when it is hot add the onions and sauté them on low heat until translucent.
4.Drain the rice and add it to the onions and sauté the rice until all the grains are coated in the oil.Stir the rice gently so that the grains don't break.
5. Add the spinach paste, potatoes, pumpkin, salt, turmeric, pepper and chillies. Mix the vegetables with the rice.
6. Add 500 ml boiling water and bring the rice to boil.
7. Reduce the heat to lowest setting and cover and cook the rice for 25 minutes.During this time do not open the pan lid.
8. After 25 minutes open the lid and fluff the rice with a fork.
9. Transfer to serving dish.

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Singapore five spiced rice

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11 comments:

  1. Delicious and lovely looking rice.
    Deepa

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  2. wow .. they look gorgeous and super tempting

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  3. Always looking for new, inexpensive ideas. One way to use pumpkins

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  4. Sounds delicious, will give it a try

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  5. I'm going to try this. I love rice dishes and this one looks great.

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  6. Looks nice. I like all the ingredients in this and would like to try it. Could be a meal in itself for me.

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  7. Looks yummy! Pumpkin is one of my favourite foods, might need to give this a go. x

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  8. Mmmm looks yummy. Never even thought about pumpkin rice before. I'm not a massive fan of pumpkin but worth a try for something different.

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  10. nice...a very good way to feed kids the veggies...

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  11. Very healthy combo.. just got some pumpkin yesterday to make soup.. Now I will make this instead.

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