One pan spicy rice
Cooking time
Ready in 20 minutesSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4This simple rice dish is a useful backup – it needs practically no preparation and uses storecupboard ingredients
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Vegetarian
- Healthy
Nutrition
- kcalories
- 380
- protein
- 12g
- carbs
- 66g
- fat
- 9g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 4g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 1.02g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tbsp medium curry paste (Madras is a good one to use)
- 250g basmati rice, rinsed
- 450ml vegetable stock
- 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- handful of raisins
- 175g frozen leaf spinach, thawed
- handful of cashew nuts
- natural yogurt to serve, optional
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Method
- Heat the oil in a large nonstick pan that has a lid, then fry the garlic and curry paste over a medium heat for 1 minute, until it smells toasty.
- Tip the rice into the pan with the stock, chickpeas and raisins and stir with a fork to stop the rice from clumping. Season with salt and pepper, then cover and bring to the boil. Reduce to a medium heat and cook for 12-15 minutes or until all the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is tender.
- Squeeze the excess water from the spinach with your hands. Tip it into the pan along with 2 tbsp of hot water and fluff up the rice with a fork, making sure the spinach is mixed in well. Toss in the cashews. Serve drizzled with natural yogurt if you like.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2004
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Would give this recipe a million stars if i could! Absolutely amazing. Loved by all of the family.. However i would recommend adding another 50-100mls of vegetable stock as the rice never quite cooks enough if you don't, and i tend to add more raisins(and sultanas) than it suggests as they completely make the dish! One of my favs- EVER. AND SO QUICK AND EASY!!!
Fantastic recipe that I use all the time, except sometimes I don't bother with the spinach, chickpeas, cashew nuts or even the yoghurt! I always add raisins though, they really make the dish. I usually put leftover roast chicken strips in mine to use up the chicken and it is a family favourite and the smell always attracts compliments!
Just made this, it's delicious! I used brown basmati (for health reasons) and it req another 200ml water and an extra 20mins on a very low heat. Also added mushrooms as suggested by another rater here. This is so easy, healthy and filling. Recipe lends itself to infinite variations and I'm up for experimenting. This will be a regular on my menu!
This was a big hit in our house, even my 3 year old daughter loved it! I used korma paste to keep it mild, though probably added more like 3tbsp. As I failed to read the recipe properly I also forgot to defrost the spinach - I just added it frozen and it worked just fine. I also had to add extra water as the stock quantity wasn't enough to cook the rice. Definitely one I'll be making again and the leftovers were apparently delicious cold - husband took them for his lunch the next day.
