Rijstafel American Style Rice Table
From notyourmomma 15 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Rijstafel means rice table. The dish comes from the former Dutch East Indies. Tasted first on a European trip when I was 14. A staple on my mom's entertaining rotation circa 1972 or so.
Ingredients
- Easy to assemble, once you have made all the separate parts. shopping list
- 4 cups of cooked chicken (my standby - pick up a rotisserie, or use the meat havested from a multiple hen roast) shopping list
- 1 large onion chopped shopping list
- 1 green pepper chopped shopping list
- 2 tbsp of butter shopping list
- 3 cups of medium white sauce (6 tbsp/butter, 6 tbsp/flour, 3 c. milk) shopping list
- 1 1/2 tbsp curry powder shopping list
- 1 8 ounce box of mushroom caps, stems removed/caps broiled shopping list
- 5 cups of cooked rice shopping list
- avocado slices shopping list
- toasted almonds shopping list
- peach or mango chutney shopping list
- plumped raisins (soaked in sherry and heated) shopping list
- crumbled bacon shopping list
- chopped hard cooked eggs shopping list
- toasted coconut shreds shopping list
How to make it
- Make white sauce.
- Cook Rice.
- Pull your stash of cooked chicken from the freezer.
- Saute the onion and green pepper in the butter until tender.
- Blend into the white sauce with the curry powder.
- Add the chicken and the cooked mushroom caps.
- Heap the rice in the middle of a large platter;
- garnish with the avocado slices.
- Surround with the creamed chicken mixture.
- Serve with bowls of condiments around the platter.
- Instruct guests to garnish their rice and curried chicken with any of the condiments.
- This is a fun meal. Pick your heat level with the curry powder you choose.
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