Fast Spinach and Rice Greek Style
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
2 Quarts
ingredients
- 3 ounces olive oil
- 1⁄2 onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, diced and crushed
- 3 ounces tomato paste
- 18 ounces fresh spinach
- 1 cup rice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh dried leaf basil, bruised
directions
- Add olive oil to the bottom of a mid-sized stock pot and let it heat slowly.
- Add diced onion to pot and cook until soft and transparent.
- Watch your heat, the onions should not be browned.
- When onion is almost done stir in garlic and cook just a bit longer.
- Dilute tomato paste in about 8 ozs of warm water and add to pot.
- Increase heat and allow mixture to come to just under a boil.
- Add fresh spinach (you may have to clean the spinach if it's sandy and remove hard stems) to the pot along with the fresh basil and add about 6 cups water.
- Allow to come to a boil and add 1-1/4 cup of rice.
- White or brown work equally well.
- **DONOT use minute rice or other fast cooking types.
- Reduce heat and simmer about 45- 50 minutes.
- Remove from heat and it's ready.
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