Palak Biryani Recipe | How to make Palak Biryani Recipe

Palak Biryani Recipe 

This is a one-pot biryani that is very easy to make. You can use both fresh as well as frozen spinach in the recipe. For frozen spinach thaw first and then squeeze all the water before using it.

I won’t suggest adding any other greens like fenugreek as it will alter the taste. You can make this biryani more healthy by adding vegetables like potatoes, green peas, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.

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Ingredients:

• 2 cup basmati rice

• 1/2 teaspoon garlic paste

• 2 tablespoon ghee

• 2 cinnamon stick

• 2 black cardamom

• 2 bay leaf

• 1 teaspoon red chili powder

• 1 teaspoon turmeric

• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds

• 2 pinches asafoetida

• mint leaves as required

• 1/2 teaspoon ginger paste

• water as required

• salt as required

• 4 green cardamom

• 4 cloves garlic

• 2 pinches mace

• 1 teaspoon garam masala powder

• 1 teaspoon cumin powder

• 1 teaspoon coriander powder

• 1 bunch spinach

• 1/2 handful coriander leaves

For Garnishing

• 1 dry red chili

Recipe:

• Step 1 Pressure cook rice and blend spinach with coriander and mint leaves

  To prepare this easy biryani, wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. Then, pressure cook the rice with 2 cups of water with a little salt added to it. Meanwhile, carefully wash the spinach underwater. Now, chop them and keep it aside in a separate bowl. Rinse the mint and coriander leaves as well. Now, in a blender, add the chopped spinach leaves along with mint and coriander leaves. Blend it to a smooth paste.

• Step 2 Saute the whole spices in ghee

  Heat ghee in a large pan over medium flame. Once hot, add ginger and garlic paste along with cinnamon sticks, green and black cardamoms, cloves, bay leaves, mace, red chili powder, garam masala powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, and coriander powder. Saute it by continuously stirring the ingredients in the pan.

• Step 3 Cook the spinach paste for 2-3 minutes and add rice to it

  Now, in the same pan add the paste you prepared in the very first step. Mix it really well over medium flame. Check for the rice now. If prepared, add them to the pan as well and give it a good stir. Sprinkle some salt over it now.

• Step 4 Add rice to this spinach paste and cook for 2-3 minutes, serve hot

  Add little water into the pan and cover it with a lid. Boil it over medium flame for five to ten minutes, till the rice soaks in the spices and water. Remove the lid and your palak biryani is now ready. Garnish it with a dry red chili and garlic slices. Serve hot.