Step-by-Step Guide to Make Super Quick Homemade Spinach rice (aka Greek spanakorizo)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, spinach rice (aka greek spanakorizo). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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This simple, delicious, and authentic Spanakorizo (Greek Spinach Rice) makes a filling vegetarian meal or side dish. Fresh dill, chives, and lemon juice give it an extraordinary flavor and aroma. Spanakorizo — Greek Spinach Rice — is the dish you need in your life right now. This recipe is super fresh and vibrant, using baby spinach, cherry tomatoes.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spinach rice (aka greek spanakorizo) using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Spinach rice (aka Greek spanakorizo):

1. Prepare 1 kg washed, cleaned spinach chopped (if you use baby spinach no need to cut it). You can also use frozen spinach instead of fresh
2. Get 1 medium onion finely chopped
3. Prepare 5-6 spring onions finely chopped
4. Prepare 1 leak finely chopped
5. Take Half tea cup of extra virgin olive oil
6. Prepare 1 small cup pudding rice (single espresso cup)
7. Make ready 2-3 ripe tomatoes chopped (or canned chopped tomatoes-half can)
8. Prepare 30 gr parlsey chopped
9. Make ready 60 gr dill finely chopped
10. Prepare Juice from fresh lemons for serving

A pilaf, it is described as a typical Greek country dish that may be eaten hot or cold. A typical recipe includes long-grain rice and fresh spinach along with dill, cumin, salt, black pepper, red wine vinegar. Nóstimo posted a video to playlist Lent or Vegan. Spanakorizo aka Greek Spinach with Rice!

Steps to make Spinach rice (aka Greek spanakorizo):

1. Heat the olive oil in a pot and fry the onions and the leak until lightly coloured (for abt 4 mins).
2. Add the spinach in the pan, turn it so it’s coated with the oil and mixed with the rest. After 2-3 mins the spinach will lose its volume. Then, add the tomatoes and the rice and stir it to be mixed with the rest. Add a cup of water and season with salt and pepper and let it be cooked for a few mins.
3. Towards the end of the cooking (it needs rougly 20-30 mins), add the parsley and the dill.
4. For serving, squeeze lemon on top of the food (I like to add the juice of half lemon per portion-besides, Vit C also helps absorbing the iron from the spinach).
5. Lastly, if you are not vegan, eat the spinach rice along with a good piece of Feta cheese and some toasted bread. Bonne appetit!

Nóstimo posted a video to playlist Lent or Vegan. Spanakorizo aka Greek Spinach with Rice! While a basic spanakorizo recipe contains only spinach and onion, there are many variations on the dish. For example, some cooks like to add scallions (green onions), leeks, parsley, chickpeas, or garlic. Spanakorizo (Greek spinach rice) - Do it like Popeye!

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