Garlic Rice is the simplest, greatest tasting aspect dish that you may serve with something! From roast rooster to chops, stir fries to fish, Center Jap to Mexican meals, this buttery rice is so flavourful you possibly can eat it plain. Have some tonight, freeze some for later!
Garlic rice
Garlic Rice is one among my most-used aspect dish recipes and I really feel a bit of egocentric for maintaining 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 sluggish roasted Greek Lamb Leg to Vietnamese Lemongrass Rooster, I problem you to consider a dish that this Garlic Rice wouldn’t go along with!
Consider it like mashed potato. Or the rice model of all people’s favorite garlic bread! Or – a neater model of fried rice. Make it immediately 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 an enormous 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 toes, like Mac and Cheese, Potato Salad, or possibly some roast greens or hefty salad like my favorite Quinoa Salad.
However Garlic Rice is way sooner to make!
Substances in garlic rice
So – exhausting promote finished. 😂 Right here’s all you have to make Garlic Rice!
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Rice varieties – This recipe will work with lengthy grain (my default), medium grain, brief 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 so on). Jasmine rice could be made as Garlic Rice however you’ll must comply with 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 elements. In case you solely have salted butter, skip the salt within the recipe.
Further 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 effectively except you employ loads of fats). Jar garlic paste, nevertheless……don’t discuss 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 replenish on when it’s on sale as a result of I take advantage of it a lot in my cooking.
Nevertheless, as a value efficient different, inventory powder plus water can be utilized. Use no matter quantity the jar specifies. Normally 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. Some other rooster or vegetable inventory powder
Easy methods to cook dinner garlic rice
It’s similar to cooking plain rice – besides we begin with garlic butter, and end with extra butter. 😇 You recognize that is going to be good!
❗️No must rinse the rice except you’re apprehensive about cleanness which, if you are going to buy rice in packets from grocery shops, shouldn’t be a priority. Rinsing is not required for fluffy rice. What you want is the proper water to rice ratio: 1 1/2 cups of liquid for 1 cup of rice. Most recipes get it unsuitable! Learn extra about why you don’t must rinse in Easy methods to Prepare dinner Rice.
In case you insist on rinsing then scale back the inventory by 1/4 cup – to account for the waterlogged rice. Else your rice shall be overly tender and never as fluffy appropriately.
My default strategy to cook dinner rice is on the range however the recipe notes contains instructions for rice cooker and oven.
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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 a bit of translucent, like we do with risotto!
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Steam quarter-hour – Add the inventory and salt, flip up the warmth and convey 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 in case you’re utilizing a weak/small burner). Then cook dinner for quarter-hour.
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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 way of till melted.
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Optionally available parsley – Additionally fluff the parsley by way of, if utilizing. Little inexperienced specks appears fairly however doesn’t add something for flavour, so it’s optionally available. Then it’s able to serve!
Fast suggestions
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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 simply too small, the depth of the rice shall be too excessive which implies it can 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 possibly can see what’s occurring! ie Guarantee water is simmering, can test 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 (attempt some, you’ll see). Additionally, the rice is moist. Throughout 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 could be the most common recipe I’ve ever shared. I truthfully can’t consider a single dish that it wouldn’t go along with – besides, in fact, recipes the place starch is already inbuilt, like pasta, pizza and so on.
Make this tonight and freeze some for later.
I hope you find it irresistible as a lot as I do. And use it Eternally! – Nagi x
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Garlic rice
Prep: 5 minutes
Prepare dinner: 20 minutes
Resting: 10 minutes
Rice, Facet Dish
Asian, Western
Servings6
Faucet or hover to scale
Directions
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No must rinse the rice. The rice shall be fluffy as a result of this recipe makes use of the proper ratio: 1.5 cups liquid for each 1 cup of rice.
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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). (Observe 5)
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Prepare dinner quarter-hour – Prepare dinner the rice for quarter-hour. No stirring, do not raise 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 way of remaining butter till melted. Toss by way of parsley, then tumble into serving dish. Sprinkle with additional parsley then serve!
Recipe Notes:
1. Butter – I present a variety as a result of extra is tastier (and I totally endorse it), however the decrease finish of the size is the minimal for a tasty dish that some may contemplate to be extra smart for a Monday night time dinner. 🙂
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 effectively. Jar garlic paste, nevertheless, don’t discuss to me about that bitter stuff!
3. Rice varieties – This recipe will work with the listed rice grains. Not appropriate for brown rice, jasmine rice (you possibly can add garlic butter to the jasmine rice recipe), wild rice, black rice or fake rice (cauliflower rice, quinoa and so on).
Various methodology – Prepare dinner brown rice and so on per recipe. Sauté the garlic in butter, then tip the cooked rice in and toss within the garlic butter. Flavour infusion not fairly pretty much as good however nonetheless extraordinarily tasty!
4. Liquid inventory will give a greater flavour however a very good 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 directions (normally 1 teaspoon per 1 cup water) + 1/4 tsp salt (NOT 3/4 tsp per recipe, rice too salty).
5. Rinsing will not be the key to fluffy rice, the proper liquid to rice ratio is (1.5 cups liquid: 1 cup rice). Nevertheless, you need to rinse if you’re involved about rice cleanliness (in case you purchase in packs at grocery shops, you shouldn’t be) or in case you simply can’t break the behavior. However in case you do, you MUST scale back the inventory by 1/4 cup, to account for the water logged within the rice. In case you don’t, your rice will find yourself overly tender and barely mushy.
6. 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 simply too low and the water is doing nothing, then the rice is simply sitting there, bloating in sizzling water as a substitute of cooking!
7. Different cook dinner strategies:
- Rice cooker – Comply with the recipe as much as stirring the rice within the garlic butter. Then scrape all of it into the rice cooker, add the inventory and salt and cook dinner per the rice cooker directions.
- Oven – Comply with the recipe as much as bringing the inventory to a boil in a pot. Then pour all of it right into a casserole pot with a lid. Bake for 35 minutes till liquid all absorbed. Relaxation 10 min with lid on, then fluff, stir by way of butter and parsley.
8. Retains for two days within the fridge. Reheat within the microwave. Or, freezer for 3 months.
Vitamin per serving.
Vitamin Info:
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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