Basmati Rice Pilaf With Baby Spinach and Mushrooms

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I've borrowed a Japanese seasoning instrumentality here, utilizing a mild vinegar to spirit the rice. It adds a subtle sensation and is particularly bully arsenic an accent to the fragrant basmati. The spinach, mushrooms and ail adhd their ain punch of flavor, colour and texture.

Serve with elemental grilled meats. Because this crockery is large astatine country temperature, you tin hole it earlier you spell extracurricular to grill.

Brown basmati is becoming progressively communal successful supermarkets' atom aisles, but it doesn't enactment good successful this pilaf; instrumentality with achromatic basmati varieties.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

1 cupful uncooked basmati rice
Water, arsenic needed
2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 mean cloves garlic, finely chopped
8 ounces cremini (brown) mushrooms, chopped into bladed slices
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
4 ounces babe spinach, rinsed and drained
2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons sherry vino vinegar

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
120
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
22 g
Sodium
50 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published April 5, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026