Garlic Rice is the simplest, greatest tasting aspect dish that you would be able to serve with something! From roast rooster to chops, stir fries to fish, Center Japanese to Mexican meals, this buttery rice is so flavourful you may eat it plain. Have some tonight, freeze some for later!
Garlic rice
Garlic Rice is one in every of my most-used aspect dish recipes and I really feel slightly egocentric for protecting it to myself all these years! It’s a rice aspect dish that’s fast to make and actually goes with something. Any delicacies, any meals sort. From an Argentinian Chimichurri steak to Chinese language Char Sui Pork, French Ratatouille to Moroccan lamb meatballs, a gradual roasted Greek Lamb Leg to Vietnamese Lemongrass Rooster, I problem you to think about a dish that this Garlic Rice wouldn’t go together with!
Consider it like mashed potato. Or the rice model of everyone’s favorite garlic bread! Or – a better model of fried rice. Make it at present and warmth it up tomorrow, hold a stash in your freezer. It’s simply as a lot at residence in your dinner plate as it’s as a part of a giant buffet.
No sauce required
One particular factor about this Garlic Rice is that it’s flavoured sufficient to eat with out smothering with sauce, like saucy stir fries and plain white rice. Right here’s an instance of what I imply – a dinner plate with Lime Rooster. I’d ordinarily serve it with one thing that stands by itself two ft, like Mac and Cheese, Potato Salad, or perhaps some roast greens or hefty salad like my favorite Quinoa Salad.
However Garlic Rice is way sooner to make!
Substances in garlic rice
So – onerous promote completed. 😂 Right here’s all you’ll want to make Garlic Rice!
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Rice sorts – This recipe will work with lengthy grain (my default), medium grain, quick grain (sushi rice) or basmati.
Not appropriate as written for brown rice, jasmine rice, wild rice, black rice or fake rice (cauliflower rice, quinoa and many others). Jasmine rice may be made as Garlic Rice however you’ll have to observe the preparation steps per the recipe (rinse + much less water).
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Butter (unsalted) – The cooking fats of selection, for pretty buttery flavour. We use half to sauté the garlic that the rice is then cooked in, then the opposite half is stirred in on the finish. Most butter flavour!
I used unsalted butter which is my default for cooking as a result of then I can management the quantity of salt from different components. When you solely have salted butter, skip the salt within the recipe.
Additional virgin olive oil makes a beautiful different to butter. Use 4 tablespoons.
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Garlic – Garlic minced with a knife will sauté higher. A garlic press/crusher works okay right here as a result of we’re utilizing sufficient butter (garlic is wetter so doesn’t sauté fairly as nicely except you employ loads of fats). Jar garlic paste, nevertheless……don’t speak to me about that stuff! Bitter, moist and barely resembles the flavour of actual garlic!
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Liquid rooster inventory/broth OR water + inventory powder – This rice actually is tastiest made with liquid rooster inventory/broth. It’s a typical pantry merchandise for me which I top off on when it’s on sale as a result of I exploit it a lot in my cooking.
Nonetheless, as a price efficient different, inventory powder plus water can be utilized. Use no matter quantity the jar specifies. Often it’s 1 teaspoon of powder plus 1 cup of water = 1 cup of liquid inventory.
My favorite inventory powders for this recipe:
1. Vegeta vegetable seasoning
2. Knorr Chinese language rooster bouillon powder – cleaner, much less “faux” rooster flavour than Western ones
3. Every other rooster or vegetable inventory powder
Easy methods to cook dinner garlic rice
It’s identical to cooking plain rice – besides we begin with garlic butter, and end with extra butter. 😇 You understand that is going to be good!
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Sauté the garlic in half the butter for 30 seconds or till it turns gentle golden and smells wonderful.
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Coat rice in that superior garlic butter till it turns into slightly translucent, like we do with risotto!
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Steam quarter-hour – Add the inventory and salt, flip up the warmth and produce to a simmer. When you see bubbles on the floor of the water, instantly put the lid on and switch the range right down to low (or medium low if you happen to’re utilizing a weak/small burner).
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take a fast peek to make sure the water has been absorbed. Then take away off the range – lid nonetheless on – and relaxation for 10 minutes.
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Butter and fluff – Fluff the rice, then toss the butter in and fluff by till melted.
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Non-obligatory parsley – Additionally fluff the parsley by, if utilizing. Little inexperienced specks appears fairly however doesn’t add something for flavour, so it’s elective. Then it’s able to serve!
Fast ideas
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Use a big saucepan or small pot (~24 cm / 10″) – we’re making 2 cups of rice which is 6 cups cooked. In case your cooking vessel is just too small, the depth of the rice shall be too excessive which suggests it’s going to take longer to cook dinner and the rice will cook dinner inconsistently (the underside layer is soggier).
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A transparent lid saucepan is tremendous helpful for rice cooking as a result of you may see what’s happening! ie Guarantee water is simmering, can examine to make sure the water has been absorbed with out lifting the lid.
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DO NOT STIR, DO NOT LIFT LID whereas the rice is cooking! That’s the surefire path to mushy, inconsistently cooked rice.
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DO NOT skip the resting time! That is tremendous essential – the rice is definitely not totally cooked even as soon as the water is absorbed (strive some, you’ll see). Additionally, the rice is moist. Through the resting time, the rice finishes cooking and the water on the floor of every grain will get absorbed. There is no such thing as a shortcut for this!
Probably the most versatile recipe I’ve ever shared?
This actually will be the most common recipe I’ve ever shared. I truthfully can’t consider a single dish that it wouldn’t go together with – besides, in fact, recipes the place starch is already in-built, like pasta, pizza and many others.
Make this tonight and freeze some for later.
I hope you adore it as a lot as I do. And use it Perpetually! – Nagi x
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Garlic rice
Prep: 5 minutes
Prepare dinner: 20 minutes
Resting: 10 minutes
Rice, Aspect Dish
Asian, Western
Servings6
Faucet or hover to scale
Directions
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Sauté garlic – Soften half the butter in a big saucepan over medium excessive warmth. As soon as foamy, add the garlic and cook dinner for 30 seconds till it turns gentle golden.
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Coat rice – Add the rice and stir for 30 seconds or till the grains flip translucent.
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Simmer – Add inventory and salt. Flip warmth as much as excessive, then as soon as the water begins effervescent, put the lid on and instantly flip the range right down to low (or medium low, in case your range is weak/small). (Word 5)
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Prepare dinner quarter-hour – Prepare dinner the rice for quarter-hour. No stirring, do not elevate the lid.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Tilt the saucepan and have a fast peek to make sure all of the water is absorbed. Then take away off the range, with the lid nonetheless on, and relaxation for 10 minutes.
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Fluff rice, then fluff by remaining butter till melted. Toss by parsley, then tumble into serving dish. Sprinkle with additional parsley then serve!
Recipe Notes:
2. Garlic minced with a knife will sauté higher however a garlic press/crusher works okay too – garlic is wetter so doesn’t sauté fairly as nicely. Jar garlic paste, nevertheless, don’t speak to me about that bitter stuff!
3. Rice sorts – This recipe will work with the listed rice grains. Not appropriate for brown rice, jasmine rice (you may adapt from the plain jasmine rice recipe), wild rice, black rice or fake rice (cauliflower rice, quinoa and many others).
4. Liquid inventory will give a greater flavour however substitute is to make use of inventory powder plus water. My favorite is Vegeta, a vegetable inventory powder. Rooster inventory and different manufacturers of vegetable can also be appropriate.
To make use of inventory powder, make this recipe with 3 cups water (750 ml) + inventory powder for this quantity of water per the jar (often 1 teaspoon per 1 cup water) + 1/4 tsp salt (NOT 3/4 tsp per recipe, rice too salty).
5. The liquid ought to have small bubbles / actively rippling when the lid is on and the range is on low/medium low. If the warmth is just too low and the water is doing nothing, then the rice is simply sitting there, bloating in sizzling water as a substitute of cooking!
6. Retains for two days within the fridge. Reheat within the microwave. Or, freezer for 3 months.
Vitamin per serving.
Vitamin Data:
Energy: 308cal (15%)Carbohydrates: 52g (17%)Protein: 7g (14%)Fats: 8g (12%)Saturated Fats: 5g (31%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 1gMonounsaturated Fats: 2gTrans Fats: 0.3gLdl cholesterol: 18mg (6%)Sodium: 331mg (14%)Potassium: 188mg (5%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Sugar: 0.3gVitamin A: 265IU (5%)Vitamin C: 2mg (2%)Calcium: 30mg (3%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
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