Food In The Fort » Madhur Jaffrey http://www.foodinthefort.com A mid-Western food blog from Fort Wayne, Indiana Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:15:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1-2-3-4 Rice http://www.foodinthefort.com/2008/10/02/1-2-3-4-rice/ http://www.foodinthefort.com/2008/10/02/1-2-3-4-rice/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000 Catherine http://www.foodinthefort.com/?p=110
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    • ]]>     This is a wonderful recipe taken from Madhur Jaffrey’s brilliant cookbook. If you like Indian food and you don’t own this cookbook, stop everything and go buy it now! Ms. Jaffrey calls this “simple buttery rice with onion” (p. 149 of my ancient edition), but I have nicknamed it “1-2-3-4 rice” since it helps me remember how much of everything to use (although I have to cheat on the “1″ since there’s one onion and one tsp of salt).

    You’re gonna love it!

    1-2-3-4 Rice

    Ingredients

    • 4 Tbsp unsalted butter
    • 3 cups of water
    • 2 cups of rice
    • 1 medium onion
    • 1 tsp salt

    Preparation

    1. Melt the butter in a heavy pot over a medium flame.
    2. When hot, put in the onion. Stir and saute it until it is almost translucent; do not let it brown in the slightest.
    3. Put in the rice and the salt. Stir and saute gently for a minute.
    4. Pour in the water and bring to a boil.
    5. Cover tightly, turn heat to very, very low and let the rice cook for 25 minutes.

    Serves 6

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