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 when 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 also be the right 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 instances every week. Half the time I’ll make it straight and easy – water, rice, and a little bit of salt. The opposite instances I like to combine it up with completely different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, components and textures. Lots of you know the way a lot I love an excellent rice scenario – I included an entire part of concepts at the back of Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally continuously 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 small print!
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 lots of group cookbooks, and at all times have my eyes peeled for books which can be particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. As we speak’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 can be citrus impressed – notice the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits.
A number of of the recipes caught my consideration. Specifically, there may be an orange rice recipe that requires “instantaneous minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning component to a citrus rice. I are inclined to hold French onion soup combine readily available to make the French Onion Strata in Tremendous Pure Easy, and have dehydrated onions in my pantry as properly. As we speak’s recipe developed from there. I like the best way the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, retaining the entire dish squarely within the savory camp.
What Type of Rice to Use?
I’ve been utilizing brown basmati rice for this recipe. Brief grain brown rice must also 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’ll be able to seemingly use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. It’s best to merely modify the quantity of liquid and cooking time in line with no matter you usually use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, when 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 complete liquid). Hope that is sensible. It’s a good distance of claiming you’ll be able to seemingly make this with success with no matter rice you could have readily available.
Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal
You possibly can simply add one other hearty component 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 might be tough to come back 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, it is best to completely use leftovers on this Herbed Rice Salad with Peanuts!
Alternately, I wish to make a skinny omelette with an egg or two, slice it thinly, and use that instead of the tofu. And earlier than I overlook, in case your celery is further leafy, make sure to make your individual celery salt! It is actually great on this rice, but additionally on all kinds of soups and salads.
Leftover Concepts
This recipe makes an excellent quantity of citrus rice, and we regularly have leftovers. It’s SO good the subsequent day, excellent for a fast fried rice for lunch, or straightforward dinner. The citrus component is basically incredible and sudden when you aren’t within the know.
In the event you’re searching for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Snicker/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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