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 case 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 following 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. Numerous you understand how a lot I love rice state of affairs – I included a complete part of concepts behind Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally consistently revisit Bryant Terry’s Superb Inexperienced Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice state of affairs. Not too long ago, 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 lots of group cookbooks, and at all times have my eyes peeled for books which might be particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. Right this moment’s recipe was impressed by a cookbook I picked up a number of years in the past, printed by Sunkist in 1968. It’s cover-to-cover recipes which might be citrus impressed – word the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits.
A number of of the recipes caught my consideration. Specifically, there’s an orange rice recipe that requires “on the spot minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning ingredient to a citrus rice. I are likely to preserve French onion soup combine available to make the French Onion Strata in Tremendous Pure Easy, and have dehydrated onions in my pantry as nicely. Right this moment’s recipe advanced from there. I like the way in which the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, protecting the entire dish squarely within the savory camp.
What Form of Rice to Use?
I’ve been utilizing brown basmati rice for this recipe. Quick grain brown rice also needs to work, you may 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 final rule of thumb right here is sure, you possibly can seemingly use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. It is best to merely alter the quantity of liquid and cooking time based on no matter you sometimes use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, in case you’re utilizing 2 cups of white rice, reduce 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 smart. It’s a great distance of claiming you possibly can seemingly make this with success with no matter rice you might have available.
Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal
You’ll be able to 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, it is best 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 instead of the tofu. And earlier than I overlook, in case your celery is additional leafy, you’ll want 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 quantity of citrus rice, and we regularly have leftovers. It’s SO good the following day, good for a fast fried rice for lunch, or straightforward dinner. The citrus ingredient is admittedly unbelievable and surprising in case you aren’t within the know.
In case you’re searching for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Chuckle/cry. Be sure you 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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