Leahs Rice Surpise
From divaliscious 16 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Colorful wonderful tasting basmati rice is a great way to sneak in extra veggies. Now I love one pot cooking, since it makes for a quick and easy clean up. But speaking of cleaning up, you will be cleaning up this side rice dish rather quickly as you and your family gobbles it up. Read more Heats up the next day perfectly as well. See less
Ingredients
- 1 cup basmati rice shopping list
- 1 large onion sliced shopping list
- 1 yellow pepper, chopped shopping list
- 1 red pepper, chopped shopping list
- 3-6 cloves of fresh garlic, minced shopping list
- 3 stalks scallions, chopped shopping list
- 2-4 good shakes of red chili flakes shopping list
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon or more of freshly cracked pepper shopping list
- 1 and 3/4 cups water shopping list
- 2 tablespoons or less of olive oil shopping list
- Pot with tight lid shopping list
- 1 clean dish towel or paper towels shopping list
How to make it
- Put olive oil in pan and add onions.
- Let onions sweat not sautee in pan till translucent (cook on medium low – you do not wish to brown the onions) (heck, it’s ok if some browning occurs)
- Add chopped peppers and garlic, let sweat for five minutes
- Add rice and all spices. With wooden spatula or spoon, stir till well combined.
- Let rice get coated with the olive oil and spices.
- Then add water, stirring once and put up heat and allow to come to a boil.
- Once boiling, turn down heat to low and put on tight lid on pot.
- Set timer for 12-14 minutes. (Don’t peek! – you will let important cooking steam out)
- Once timer chimes, take off lid, and with spoon, pull away rice and see if any water still exists on bottom of pan. If so, allow to cook for another few minutes.
- Once water has evaporated, turn off heat under pot and place folded clean dish towel (or paper towels) just over pot and just under lid. Let rice’s extra steam be soaked up by towels and let sit for at least 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
- When ready to serve, fluff up rice with fork and add freshly chopped scallions to rice.
- Serve up your rice surprise along with your favorite main course. Photo provided shows my rice surprise side dish along with my version and take on Noir’s chicken with garlic and lime that I made with pork chops.
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
Sounds wonderful! Great post.
sparow64
in Sweetwater loved it
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Lone all the extra vegies to your recipe!!! (5 PEAS FROM ME))))))))).....
pudgy47
in Las Vegas loved it
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I love rice just and this looks great~5
m2googee
in Tomball loved it
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