How to Make Palak Rice or Spinach Rice H ello, Friends welcome back How are you guys doing. Today I want to share another easy recipe with you How to Make Palak Rice or Spinach Rice . Palak Rice or Spinach Rice is one of the easiest and healthiest rice recipe out of all the flavored rice recipe. There are several ways of preparing the Palak rice recipe, but Today I am sharing the easiest recipe with cooked rice. this Spinach Rice recipe is ideal for Lunch boxes to be prepared for the busy mornings or even for breakfast. I and my Family are a great fan of this Palak Rice. So, friends let’s see the Palak Rice Recipe with ingredients and step by step procedure to make Palak Rice Ingredients for Palak Rice 1 cup basmati rice, cooked 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter / Oil ¼ onion, finely chopped 2 green chili Cilantro for garnishing 1 cup Palak/spinach, finely chopped ¼ cup peas, fresh / frozen (optional) salt to taste I’m using (1 cup =255 ml) Preparation of Palak
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Today we will cook new dish i.e.,CABBAGE KOFTA CURRY
Kofta's are fried dumplings which can be made from different vegetables like bottle gourd, carrots, potatoes or even mixed vegetables. Today’s dish is with cabbage
It is quick and easy to make tasty cabbage kofta recipe made with grated cabbage, gram flour and simple ingredients which is easily available in our kitchen.
Cabbage Kofta's are a wonderful treat to everyday lunch or dinner meal.
This dish looks so colorful and appetizing that even the people who think that cabbage is such a boring vegetable and don’t like to eat cabbage curry will be tempted to taste it.
You will definitely love the taste of this cabbage, the taste is absolutely different from the normal cabbage curry !!!!!
Cabbage kofta can be served with Roti, Paratha, Naan and It also goes well with steamed rice or jeera rice.
Ingredients:
For the Cabbage koftas:
2 cups shredded cabbage
3/4 cup gram flour or as needed
¼ teaspoon Turmeric
¼ teaspoon Garam masala
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 teaspoon chopped cilantro (coriander leaf)
1 teaspoon shredded ginger
1 chopped green chili
1 teaspoon salt or as per taste
oil to deep fry
For the Curry/Sauce/Gravy:
4 medium tomatoes
1/2 inch ginger
4-5 garlic cloves
1 green chili
2 teaspoon plain yogurt
2 teaspoon oil
1 pinch asafetida
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
9-10 cashew (soak in water for 1 hour)
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon salt or as per taste
1 teaspoon red chili powder
2 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
Preparation method:
Preparing the cabbage kofta’s:
- In a mixing bowl take the shredded cabbage, cumin seeds, cilantro (coriander leaf), ginger, green chili, turmeric, garam masala, and salt, mix it.
- Now add gram flour and mix it well. Keep the mixer aside for 20 - 25 mins. The kofta mixture would have become moist as the cabbage would release its juices.
- If the mixture looks dry, then you can add some water. If it's too moist and batter like, then no need to add any water.
- Heat oil for deep frying the cabbage koftas in a pan. Make a small balls of batter and fry the koftas until they turn golden-brown all around.
- Drain the cabbage kofta's on paper towels to remove excess oil and keep aside.
preparing masala paste for curry
- In a grinding jar add the tomatoes, green chilies, ginger and garlic, grind it into smooth paste(do not add water).
- Take it out in a bowl and keep it aside.
- Now take the soaked cashews in the grinding jar and grind into smooth paste (add little water if required).
- Take it out in a bowl and keep it aside.
preparing curry/sauce/gravy:
- Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and fry it for few second on medium flame, now add chopped green chili, asafetida. Stir-fry for a minutes.
- Reduce the flame to low, add the tomato paste and cook it for few seconds, add turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder, and cook on medium flame until the tomato mixture starts leaving the oil and reduces to about half in quantity.
- Now add cashews paste, mix it properly and cook for a minute.
- Next add yogurt and cook for another minute.
- Add about 1½ cups of water and the salt. As it comes to boil reduce the flame to medium-low and let the gravy cook for few minutes.
- Note: adjust the thickness of the gravy to your taste by adjusting the water.
- Add the prepared koftas and let it cook in low flame for another 3 - 5 minutes.
- Turn of the flame and garnish with cilantro.
- The cabbage kofta is ready to serve hot.
Enjoy cooking..!
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