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Tasty Greek Spinach and Rice (Spanakorizo)

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This Spinach and Rice/Vegetarian dish is a quick lunch or dinner meal for the whole family. The main ingredient is Spinach, which is and I also consider to be good for you.  The additional ingredients give this dish a spectacular boost of taste.  There are two ways that this recipe can be cooked either with tomatoes or just plain olive oil…:)  Since both are cooked the exact same way all you need to do is to figure out which taste you enjoy more. 🙂 

Dipping fresh bread into the tomato sauce, and munching on feta cheese just makes this dish even more tastier. 🙂

I wasn’t able to provide pictures for this recipe besides the featured image, because of everything that happened with our beautiful Marka’s passing. 🙁  

TASTY GREEK SPINACH AND RICE (SPANAKORIZO)

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilo Spinach chopped or whole
  • 1 large Onion diced
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil
  • 5 grated fresh Tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup Medium White Grain Rice
  • 1/4 cup Dill diced
  • Salt and Pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Tomato Paste optional
  • 1/2 Lemon optional
  • 3 cups Water

Instructions
 

  • In a large sauce pan add in the olive oil, sauté the onion.
  • Add in the dill, tomato sauce and (paste if you wisand continue to sauté for about 5 minutes.
  • Toss in the spinach, rice, salt and pepper and continue to stir, continue by addin in the water.
  • Cook until rice is soft, that should take about 20 minutes.
  • Serve with a squeeze of lemon on either recipe.

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

17 Comments

  1. jyo
    December 22, 2017 at 7:41 am  ·  Reply

    Awesome with greens 🌱🌱

  2. cookwithreena
    December 22, 2017 at 8:01 am  ·  Reply

    seems delicious and healthy too!!!

  3. mistimaan
    December 22, 2017 at 10:09 am  ·  Reply

    Nice and tasty recipe. 🙂

  4. Ramyarecipes
    December 22, 2017 at 11:20 am  ·  Reply

    Healthy 👍

  5. wakinguponthewrongsideof50
    December 22, 2017 at 12:15 pm  ·  Reply

    This looks so comforting !

  6. Megala
    December 22, 2017 at 5:03 pm  ·  Reply

    Wholesome rice !

  7. dtills
    December 22, 2017 at 10:07 pm  ·  Reply

    This looks great!

  8. Anna
    December 23, 2017 at 12:24 pm  ·  Reply

    Yummy! Merry Christmas 🙂

  9. Aman Thakur
    December 23, 2017 at 4:43 pm  ·  Reply

    Nice…

  10. RhapsodyBoheme
    January 11, 2018 at 3:57 am  ·  Reply

    Wonderful and great with the cold weather I bet

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