Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lemony spanakorizo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spanakorizo is the traditional Greek version of spinach rice. This simple recipe has three main features that make it a perfect choice to detox your body without renouncing to the taste: it's vegan, it's rich in vegetables, and it's delicious! Spanakorizo is a classic Greek vegetarian dish made with spinach and rice.
Lemony spanakorizo is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lemony spanakorizo is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lemony spanakorizo using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemony spanakorizo:
- Make ready 1 kg spinach (cleaned, washed and coarsely cut)
- Get 4 leeks (the white part cut into round slices)
- Get 6 spring onions (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 large dry onion (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1/2 bunch dill (finely chopped)
- Get 2 handfuls rice (I use long-grain)
- Take olive oil
- Take salt, pepper
- Prepare fresh juice of 1 lemon
Spinach rice is a must-try dish that is delicious and super healthy. As children growing up, having to eat spanakorizo was equivalent to some kind of punishment. Lemony spanakorizo A nutricious and extremely tasty spanakorizo (spinach and rice). Personally I prefer this version to the one with tomatoes!
Steps to make Lemony spanakorizo:
- Cover the bottom of a pot with olive oil and sauté the onions together with the leeks.
- As soon as they become translucent, add the spinach, stir and cover until it gets tender. The spinach will let out its liquids so don't add water right away but later.
- When the spinach gets tender add the dill, the rice, 2 cups water, salt and pepper.
- Boil for 10' more minutes stirring often so that the rice doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot. Then remove from heat, pour in the lemon juice and set it aside covered to absorb its liquids.
- Serve with fresh bread and feta cheese!
Oh, and did I mention its nutritional value? Spinach full of antioxidants and fiber, the lemon helps with some absorption of the iron in the spinach and the rice is a source of carbohydrates to provide sustenance. Spanakorizo, or spinach rice, is one of the great, classic, simple vegetarian dishes of the Greek table. It can be totally vegan, or it can be served with feta or greek yogurt as well as a sunnyside up egg. A squeeze of lemon over the rice, which is how Greeks eat it, make this an even greater nutritional bomb, as the lemon helps our bodies.
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