Indian Lamb Mince with Yellow Rice and Tomato Salsa

Indian Lamb Mince with Yellow Rice and Tomato Salsa

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, June 3, 2018.

Ingredients

Rice

  • 1½ cups basmati rice
  • 2¼ cups water
  • ½ tsp ground turmeric
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ bag baby spinach

Lamb

  • ½ brown onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 450g lamb mince
  • 1 clove minced garlic
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1-2 Tbsp Indian spice mix
  • 1 Tbsp flour
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 cup chicken or beef stock
  • 125g frozen peas
  • 1 Tbsp tomato sauce

Salsa

  • 1 tomato
  • 2 Tbsp mint leaves

Steps

  1. Combine rice, water, turmeric and salt in a medium pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 12 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. Thinly slice spinach, finely dice onion, grate carrot and set aside.
  3. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on high heat. Cook onion, carrot and lamb mince for 5-6 minutes until starting to brown. Add garlic, ginger, Indian spice mix, flour and salt and cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring often, until fragrant.
  4. Reduce heat to medium and slowly stir through stock and tomato sauce. Add peas and cook for a further 5-6 minutes until thickened. Dice tomato 0.5cm and place in a small bowl. Roughly chop mint and add to tomato with a drizzle of olive oil. Mix to combine and season to taste.
  5. Fluff up cooked rice with a fork and stir through spinach.
  6. To serve, divide yellow rice between plates and top with Indian lamb and sprinkle over tomato salsa.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1946 kj
465 kcal
Protein 29.3g
Carbohydrate 53.9g
Fat 13.8g