Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, rice pilaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A creamy rice pilaf made with arborio rice, Parmesan cheese, and plenty of freshly ground black pepper is a perfect accompaniment for a Spring meal. By USA WEEKEND columnist Pam Anderson Lebanese Restaurant Rice Pilaf Melt butter and olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Five ingredients and three steps is all you need to cook this tasty rice pilaf.

Rice Pilaf is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Rice Pilaf is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook rice pilaf using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Rice Pilaf:

1. Prepare 1 tbsp. unsalted butter
2. Make ready 1 tbsp. olive oil
3. Prepare 1 small carrot, peeled and diced
4. Make ready 1 small stalk celery, diced
5. Get 1/4 yellow onion
6. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, minced
7. Take 1 cup long grain rice
8. Make ready 1 3/4 cup unsalted chicken or veggie broth
9. Prepare 1/4 tsp. each salt, pepper, salt-free all purpose seasoning
10. Prepare 1/8 tsp. each poultry seasoning, ground sage

It's made with pantry staples and has far fewer ingredients than the boxed kind. Rice pilaf is an easy side dish that goes with most meals. Pilaf (US spelling) or pilau (UK spelling) is a rice dish or, in some regions, a wheat dish, whose recipe usually involves cooking in stock or broth, adding spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat, and employing some technique for achieving cooked grains that do not adhere. At the time of the Abbasid Caliphate, such methods of cooking rice at first spread through a vast.

Steps to make Rice Pilaf:

1. Heat the butter and oil in a medium pot with a tight fitting lid over medium heat. Once its melted and hot, add the carrots, celery and onion with a large pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, until everything has softened up…about 7-10 minutes. Then add the garlic and cook a minute or two more, until fragrant. Stir in the rice and seasonings and increase the heat to med-high.
2. Stir often, so the rice toasts evenly for about 3 or so minutes. Then stir in the broth and place on the lid. Once it starts to come to a low boil, which should be fairly quickly, decrease the heat to low and let simmer undisturbed for 13-15 minutes, or until the liquid has been absorbed. Then turn off the heat and keep the lid on an additional 5 minutes. Then fluff with a fork and serve.

The rice pilaf method is a method for cooking rice that involves using aromatics (garlic and onion), and some oil, and specific steps for cooking the rice to get a fluffy, tasty rice. Essentially, professional chefs cook rice in different ways to achieve different results. Think of rice pilaf as an upgrade to your everyday rice. It's like rice that puts on a nice dress and some earrings — not much extra work, but the payoff is a side dish that feels just a little bit fancy. Today we're making the very simplest rice pilaf: white rice cooked with a little flavorful oil and chopped onion, and then simmered with broth.

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