When the winter sets in, we start looking forward to hot soups and warm one-pot baked dishes.

This one-pot dish can be baked when you have some leftover rice. I had some leftover sona masoori jeera rice. You can use boiled rice or pulao too.

This is one good way of giving greens to fussy eaters. Mine has grown up now and tells me she understands what food is good for her. Yet loves it when I bake something different instead of cooking the regular stuff.

This baked dish has cream cheese and cheddar cheese. If you don’t have cheddar then use processed cheese.

I have skipped cream altogether. You can use 2 tbsp of fresh cream. Add it with milk.

Creamy Spinach Rice

An extremely rich and healthy creamy spinach rice

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish

Servings 3

Equipment

• Gas stove, OTG

Ingredients

  

• 1.5-2 cups cooked rice
• 2.5-3 cups chopped spinach
• 1 big chopped onion
• 2 cloves chopped garlic
• 1/3 cup cream cheese
• 1/2 cup grated cheddar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tbsp homemade butter
• 1 chopped green chilli
• 1/2 tsp chili flakes
• salt to taste
• 1/3 cup homemade bread crumbs

Instructions

 

• In a heavy bottomed pan, heat butter and saute garlic and onion. Cook until the onions turn translucent.
• Add spinach, green chilies, salt and chili flakes.
• Mix in cream cheese and milk. Cook until the cream cheese mixes well.
• Add rice. Cook for 2 minutes and add cheddar cheese. Switch off the gas.
• Transfer the contents to an oven proof dish.
• Garnish with bread crumbs and grated cheddar.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 40 minutes.
• You can add some colour on the top by keeping it on the top rack of your oven with just top rod on.
• Add some extra cheese on the top and bake for 5 more minutes.
• Serve hot as a main dish or side dish with dal and chapati.

Notes

You can use garlic powder instead of fresh garlic.

Be careful while adding salt as cheddar has some salt too.