This unbelievable 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 the event 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 right base for a rice bowl, and I like utilizing leftovers the subsequent day for a citrusy-y tackle fried rice.
I prepare dinner rice a pair occasions every 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 completely different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, components and textures. A number of you know the way a lot I love rice state of affairs – I included an entire part of concepts behind Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally always revisit Bryant Terry’s Wonderful Inexperienced Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice state of affairs. Just lately, this tremendous orange citrus rice has been in high-rotation. Listed below are the main points!
Citrus Rice Inspiration
One of many issues I like about flea markets, property and yard gross sales is discovering and searching previous cookbooks. I come throughout quite a bit of neighborhood cookbooks, and all the time have my eyes peeled for books which are particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. In the present day’s recipe was impressed by a cookbook I picked up just a few years in the past, printed by Sunkist in 1968. It’s cover-to-cover recipes which are 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 “immediate minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning ingredient 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 properly. In the present day’s recipe advanced from there. I like the way in which 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 also needs to work, you would possibly 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 overall rule of thumb right here is sure, you possibly can doubtless use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. You need to merely alter the quantity of liquid and cooking time in line with no matter you usually use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, in the event you’re utilizing 2 cups of white rice, cut back the orange juice and water known as for within the recipe from 4 cups to three cups (or 3 1/4 cups whole liquid). Hope that is sensible. It’s a great distance of claiming you possibly can doubtless make this with success with no matter rice you may have available.
Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal
You possibly can simply add one other hearty ingredient 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 couple of teaspoons soy sauce and baked till golden in a 375F oven. Wasabi paste will be difficult to return by, and after 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 rather than the tofu. And earlier than I neglect, in case your celery is additional leafy, make sure you make your individual celery salt! It is actually fantastic on this rice, but additionally on all kinds of soups and salads.
Leftover Concepts
This recipe makes quantity of citrus rice, and we frequently have leftovers. It’s SO good the subsequent day, good for a fast fried rice for lunch, or straightforward dinner. The citrus ingredient is de facto incredible and sudden in the event you aren’t within the know.
If you happen to’re on the lookout for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Snicker/cry. Remember to do that 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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