Baked Greek Rice
From keni 13 years ago
- 1 hour to make
- Serves 4-6
My attempt at duplicating a delicious rice from my favorite Gyro place... with a few well asked questions and a lil luck, I came up with a version we liked even better!
Ingredients
- 6T butter shopping list
- 2 cups white rice(I used long grain) shopping list
- 5 cups chicken stock shopping list
- juice from 1/2 lemon and 1t zest shopping list
- 2-3 green onions, sliced shopping list
- kosher or sea salt and fresh ground black pepper shopping list
- 1/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled shopping list
How to make it
- In heavy skillet(I used cast iron), melt butter over medium low heat.
- Add dry rice and stir well to coat all grains of rice with the butter.
- Cook, stirring very often until rice has changed color, slightly... it's losing it's starchy coating, so it'll look a lil less "white", but you aren't trying to brown it.
- Transfer rice to a baking dish and cover with stock.
- Add lemon juice, zest, green onion and salt and pepper.
- Stir together(rice will be sunk on bottom, and that's okay...I wasn't sure it was gonna be, but it was! ;)
- Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes.
- Stir then cover and bake another 10-15, until liquid has absorbed.
- Remove from oven and let rest a few minutes, unstirred.
- You can stir to serve, or just leave as is... the top layer of rice will have a lil more texture than usual, but it won't be raw... just slightly crispy, which is what you're after. :)
- Sprinkle with feta at serving.
The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
I have had the same dish in Bulgaria; this is killer. Great with any meat, or by itself. Thanks for sharing and jogging the memory.
hooksc
in Zeeland loved it
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Looks very good! We had Greek night yesterday, too :)
DetroitTokyo
in Detroit loved it
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This is very good! The top didn't really get that crispy but it was wonderful anyway. Will hang on to this one. Thanks, Keni! Sorry my pic isn't that great.. ;-)
DetroitTokyo
in Detroit loved it
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