Wash the rice and soak in the salted water for 1-2 hours before cooking time.
In a pot with meat, add chopped onion, season with pepper. Pour water into the pot and cook it until tender. Keep meat broth for mixing with spinach.
Heat the oil in a pan and sauté spinach for 2-3 minutes. Remove it from the heat.
Add salt, cumin powder and meat broth to the fried spinach (for the extra flavour) and blend the spinach mixture well in blender.
Use a sieve and strain it in order to separate juice from leaves. Now we have puree and filtered spinach juice as a colouring agent for our rice.
Now for cooking rice, bring the water to a boil in a pot. Drain the salted water of rice and pour the rice into the boiled water. Allow to cook for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat. Use a colander and drain the rice.
Turn the rice back into the pot. Add spinach juice to the rice and mix it well. There is no necessity to use all of the spinach juice. Just add enough to give good green colour to the rice. Place the cooked meat among the rice. Cover the pot with a lid and allow to steam for 20 minutes.
Serve the rice with herbs or fresh vegetables.
