BUTTERY BEJEWELED RICE
You can fold all the toppings into the rice and it'll still be delicious-but you'll get maximum wow factor if you create a pattern with them on top.
Provided by Andy Baraghani
Categories Bon Appétit Rice Fall Vegetarian Almond Pistachio Carrot Cardamom Cinnamon Raisin Dinner Peanut Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Soy Free
Yield 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Separate dark green parts from scallions; thinly slice dark green parts and white and pale green parts, keeping them separate. Set aside. Arrange almonds and pistachios on opposite sides of a rimmed baking sheet and toast until almonds are golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove almonds from baking sheet and toss pistachios. Return baking sheet with pistachios to oven and toast until golden brown, about 4 minutes longer. Let cool.
- Melt 3 Tbsp. butter in a large heavy pot over medium heat. Add carrots and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened but without having taken on any color, 10-12 minutes. Stir in sugar and a pinch of salt and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Transfer carrots to a medium bowl.
- Melt another 4 Tbsp. butter in the same pot over medium. Add garlic and reserved pale green and white parts of scallions and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened but without taking on any color, about 5 minutes. Stir in rice, cardamom, cinnamon, red pepper flakes, and turmeric and cook, stirring often, until some grains are translucent, about 3 minutes. Add 1 Tbsp. salt and 3¾ cups water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot, and simmer until rice is tender, 25-30 minutes. Remove pot from heat; let sit 10 minutes to allow rice to steam longer.
- While rice is cooking, melt 2 Tbsp. butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Add dried fruit and cook, stirring often, until fruit is plumped and softened, about 4 minutes. Set aside.
- Add remaining 3 Tbsp. butter to rice and fluff with a fork. Spoon pilaf onto a large platter. Top with neatly defined rows of dried fruit, almonds, pistachios, carrots, and reserved scallion greens, or, if you prefer, mix all the toppings into the rice before arranging on the platter.
SWEET JEWELED RICE
From the New Book of Middle Eastern Food, posted for ZWT III, North Africa and the Middle East. When I made this, I used chutney rather than the orange marmalade and it was very nice.
Provided by pattikay in L.A.
Categories Chicken
Time 1h5m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- sauté the chicken in 2 T of butter, turning over and sprinkling with salt till browned but still juicy inside.
- Cut each slice into about 6 pieces.
- wash the rice in warm water and rinse in colander under the cold tap.
- Soak the sour cherries, cranberries and barberries in water for 15 minutes.
- Throw the drained rice in plenty of boiling salted water in a large pan and boil for about 10 minutes until partly cooked and still a little firm, then drain.
- Heat 2 T butter in bottom of the pan and stir in the saffron.
- Spread alternate layers of rice, chicken pieces and the rest of the ingredients, ending with rice and sprinkling lightly with salt.
- Add the remaining butter or oil over the top at the end.
- Put the lid on and steam on the lowest heat for about 20-30 minutes or until the rice is tender.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 537.8, Fat 23.5, SaturatedFat 8.8, Cholesterol 76.2, Sodium 141.8, Carbohydrate 55.3, Fiber 4.5, Sugar 1.9, Protein 27.4
JEWELED RICE WITH DRIED FRUIT
Categories Rice Side Christmas Thanksgiving Vegetarian Quick & Easy Wheat/Gluten-Free Dried Fruit Raisin Pistachio Fall Christmas Eve Gourmet Pescatarian Peanut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Rinse rice in several changes of cold water in a large bowl until water runs clear. Drain in a large sieve.
- Bring water and salt to a boil in a 6-quart heavy pot, then add rice and boil, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes from time water returns to boil. Drain rice in sieve.
- Toss together dried fruit in a bowl. Melt 6 tablespoons butter with cardamom and pepper in cleaned and dried pot, stirring to combine, then alternately layer rice and dried fruit over it, beginning and ending with rice and mounding loosely. Make 5 or 6 holes in rice to bottom of pot with round handle of a wooden spoon, then cover pot with a kitchen towel and a heavy lid. Fold edges of towel up over lid (to keep towel from burning) and cook rice over moderately low heat, undisturbed, until tender and a crust forms on bottom, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from heat and let rice stand, tightly covered and undisturbed, at least 30 minutes.
- Heat remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a small skillet over moderate heat and cook pistachios, stirring, until lightly browned, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Spoon loose rice onto a platter, then break crust into 1-inch pieces and scatter over rice. Sprinkle with pistachios.
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