Rice Pilaf What makes a pilaf? Cooking the rice in butter or oil (and often onions or other vegetables) before adding other ingredients, at the very least a flavorful liquid like stock. Yellow rice is a form of pilaf, as is biryani, as, one could argue, is paella....
Rice Cooked in Onions Soubise MAKES: 4 to 6 servings TIME: 1 hour, largely unattended This is a great Thanksgiving dish: It'll keep warm for a long time or can be kept hot over a very low flame (and, if it browns on the bottom, so much the better). I've modified it in...
Coconut Rice MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes Coconut rice is a near-universal staple, for two reasons: In many rice-growing areas coconuts grow wild, so the combination is a natural. Even the simplest version, which follows, is incredibly delicious. A few other...
Brown Rice Pilaf with Two Mushrooms MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 1 hour, largely unattended You can substitute brown rice for white in any pilaf, simply by using parcooked brown rice as described in the sidebar on Brown Rice. But cooking the raw brown rice in oil...
Brown Rice MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 45 minutes Brown rice can substitute for white rice in a vast number of recipes, as you'll see in this chapter, so it would be a mistake to think of it as some weird health-food phenomenon. Nutritionally, of course, it's far...