Lebanese Style Rice
From jimrug1 17 years ago
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked long grain rice shopping list
- 2 Tbls clarified butter shopping list
- 1/4 cup small pasta (I use Orzo but you could used any thin pasta such as vermicelli broken up into small pieces. shopping list
- 2 1/2 cups (Hot) water. shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Wash Rice until water runs clear. (Optional) Drain thoroughly.
- Saute' pasta in butter until medium - dark brown but not burnt. Add rice and salt. Stir constantly until rice is well coated with butter and begins to turn translucent.
- Add hot water, bring to a boil, and boil for 2 mins. Reduce heat to low, cover simmer 15 mins. Remove from heat, leave covered an additional 5 mins.
- To serve as a stand alone side dish. Top with Sauteed pine nuts or almonds in brown butter.
- Variation. To serve with chicken, add a pinch of saffron or 2-3 anatto seeds when frying the pasta to add a delicate orangish yellow color.
The Rating
Reviewed by 10 people-
Sounds like a great improvement over plain rice. I will make it.
I enjoy Minnesota wild rice mixed into rice dishes such as chicken rice soup, and so on.
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in Duluth loved it
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I'm so glad that you stopped to take a look at the Muhammara... now I've got a whole new cache of recipes to try out!
I've been looking for something a little bit different to do with the eggplant on the salad. I'm looking forward to doin...more
shine
in Rainier loved it
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I forgot to put the saffron in while it was cooking so I sprinkled on some turmeric at the end to yellow it up some. You can see a picture of the rice plated along with some baked stuffed eggplant and zucchini on your baked stuffed eggplant recipe pa...more
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