Instant Pot Jeera Rice With Spinach Mixed lentil curry

This is a simple but delicious combo in North India made usually with tuvar dal or moongdal. But I have used the mixture of five dals from which I have already posted as mixed lentil curry (with onions and garlic) and a no onion and garlic lentil curry. This one is also a no onion and garlic curry which includes almost the same ingredients but the method of preparation is very simple by dumping all those and seasoning at last. Check out my south Indian dal and greengram curry, tomato dal.

Cooking time: 15

Ingredients:

For Jeera Rice: (serving: 2)

Basmati rice - 1 cup (1 cup - 160 ml)
Cumin seeds - 3/4 tbsn
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Cloves - 2
Staranise - 1
Bayleaf - 1
Oil - 2 tspn
Salt to taste

For Spinach Dal: (serving: 4)

Mixed lentils - 1/3 cup
Spinach - 2 handful (chopped, i used baby spinach)
Tomato - 1 1/2
Green chilli - 2
Ginger - 1 1/2 inch
Coriander powder - 1 tspn
Cumin powder - 1/2 tspn
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
Garam masala - 1/4 tspn
Turmeric - 1/4 tspn
Oil - 1/2 tspn
Salt to taste

For seasoning:

Oil - 1 tspn
Ghee - 1 tspn
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn
Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
Cloves - 2
Red chilli - 2
Asafoetida - 1/4 tspn

Method: (For jeera rice)

1. Grab all the ingredients.

2. Switch on the IP. Add oil. Add bayleaf, cinnamon, cloves, staranise.

3. Add cumin seeds. Saute for a second.

4. Add 2 cups of water (if soaked add 1 1/2 cup of water). Add salt.

5. Once the water starts boiling add washed rice and mix well.

6. Close the lid. Press the manual for 5 mins in High Pressure HP in sealed position. Then do Natural Pressure Release NPR.

7. Open the lid. Add coriander leaves.

Method: (For spinach dal)

1. Grab all the ingredients. Wash and soak the dal for 1 hr. Grind the ginger and green chillies into a coarse mixture without adding water.

2. Switch on the IP. Add all the ingredients except salt and spinach with 2 cups of water.

3. Close the lid. Press the manual for 12 mins in High Pressure HP in sealed position. Then do Natural Pressure Release NPR.

4. Open the lid. Add spinach, salt and press the saute mode. Let it cook for 6 - 8 mins.

5. In the meantime do the seasoning and add it to the dal mixture. Switch off. Smash well using a wooden spatula.

6. Hot and healthy spinach mixed lentil curry is ready to serve with Jeera Rice.

Notes:

You can have this curry for rotis and plain rice too.
You can follow the same recipe with only tuvardal too.