This unimaginable citrus rice is flooded with orange juice, flecked with celery and carrots, and boosted with a packet of French onion dip combine. It’s lovely, scrumptious, and in case you’re in a rice or grain rut, it is simply the factor to get you out of it. This Tremendous Orange Citrus Rice can be the proper base for a rice bowl, and I like utilizing leftovers the subsequent day for a citrusy-y tackle fried rice.
I cook dinner rice a pair occasions per week. Half the time I’ll make it straight and easy – water, rice, and a little bit of salt. The opposite occasions I like to combine it up with totally different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, substances and textures. A whole lot of you understand how a lot I love a superb rice scenario – I included an entire part of concepts at the back of Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally continually revisit Bryant Terry’s Superb Inexperienced Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice scenario. Just lately, this tremendous orange citrus rice has been in high-rotation. Listed here are the main points!
Citrus Rice Inspiration
One of many issues I like about flea markets, property and yard gross sales is discovering and shopping previous cookbooks. I come throughout loads of neighborhood cookbooks, and all the time have my eyes peeled for books which might be particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. In the present day’s recipe was impressed by a cookbook I picked up a number of years in the past, printed by Sunkist in 1968. It’s cover-to-cover recipes which might be citrus impressed – observe the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits.
A couple of of the recipes caught my consideration. Specifically, there’s an orange rice recipe that requires “prompt minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning aspect to a citrus rice. I are inclined to hold French onion soup combine available to make the French Onion Strata in Tremendous Pure Easy, and have dehydrated onions in my pantry as effectively. In the present day’s recipe developed from there. I like the best way the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, holding the entire dish squarely within the savory camp.
What Sort of Rice to Use?
I’ve been utilizing brown basmati rice for this recipe. Brief grain brown rice must also work, you may want to regulate the cooking time a bit although. I’ve examined a mix of half brown basmati with half white basmati and it wasn’t nice. Unsurprisingly, the white grains actually blew out and over cooked whereas the brown rice grains completed cooking.
The final rule of thumb right here is sure, you possibly can probably use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. You need to merely regulate the quantity of liquid and cooking time based on no matter you usually use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, in case you’re utilizing 2 cups of white rice, reduce the orange juice and water known as for within the recipe from 4 cups to three cups (or 3 1/4 cups complete liquid). Hope that is sensible. It’s a good distance of claiming you possibly can probably make this with success with no matter rice you’ve available.
Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal
You possibly can simply add one other hearty aspect to this rice and make a one bowl meal. You see the citrus rice pictured right here topped with a little bit of merely marinated, baked tofu. It is simply slabs of thinly sliced extra-firm tofu tossed in 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon wasabi paste, and a pair of teaspoons soy sauce and baked till golden in a 375F oven. Wasabi paste may be difficult to return by, and once I’m out of it I’ll substitute a favourite curry paste or tobanjan paste. Throw some broccoli or cauliflower florets into the oven with the tofu for some added veg. And, you need to completely use leftovers on this Herbed Rice Salad with Peanuts!
Alternately, I prefer to make a skinny omelette with an egg or two, slice it thinly, and use that instead of the tofu. And earlier than I neglect, in case your celery is additional leafy, remember to make your personal celery salt! It is actually fantastic on this rice, but additionally on all types of soups and salads.
Leftover Concepts
This recipe makes a superb quantity of citrus rice, and we frequently have leftovers. It’s SO good the subsequent day, excellent for a fast fried rice for lunch, or straightforward dinner. The citrus aspect is absolutely improbable and surprising in case you aren’t within the know.
Should you’re searching for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Snort/cry. You should definitely do this inexperienced rice, my favourite mushroom casserole, and this vegetarian tackle paella. I additionally love cooking with quinoa, cooking with lentils. Take pleasure in! -h
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