This unimaginable citrus rice is flooded with orange juice, flecked with celery and carrots, and boosted with a packet of French onion dip combine. It’s stunning, scrumptious, and when 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 be the proper base for a rice bowl, and I like utilizing leftovers the subsequent day for a citrusy-y tackle fried rice.

I cook dinner rice a pair occasions every week. Half the time I’ll make it straight and easy – water, rice, and a little bit of salt. The opposite occasions I like to combine it up with completely different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, substances and textures. Plenty of you understand how a lot I love rice scenario – I included a complete part of concepts at the back of Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally always revisit Bryant Terry’s Wonderful Inexperienced Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice scenario. Lately, this tremendous orange citrus rice has been in high-rotation. Listed here are the small print!

Citrus Rice Inspiration

One of many issues I like about flea markets, property and yard gross sales is discovering and shopping outdated cookbooks. I come throughout quite a bit of neighborhood cookbooks, and at all times have my eyes peeled for books which can be particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. Right now’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 can be citrus impressed – observe the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits. 

A couple of of the recipes caught my consideration. Particularly, there may be an orange rice recipe that requires “instantaneous minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning ingredient to a citrus rice. I are inclined to hold 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 now’s recipe advanced from there. I like the best way the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, holding the entire dish squarely within the savory camp.

What Type of Rice to Use?

I’ve been utilizing brown basmati rice for this recipe. Quick grain brown rice must also 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 overall rule of thumb right here is sure, you possibly can doubtless use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. It is best to merely modify the quantity of liquid and cooking time in keeping with no matter you usually use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, when you’re utilizing 2 cups of white rice, cut back the orange juice and water known as for within the recipe from 4 cups to three cups (or 3 1/4 cups whole liquid). Hope that is sensible. It’s a good distance of claiming you possibly can doubtless make this with success with no matter rice you’ve available.

Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal

You may 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 pair of teaspoons soy sauce and baked till golden in a 375F oven. Wasabi paste could be tough to come back by, and once 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 neglect, in case your celery is further leafy, you’ll want to make your personal celery salt! It is actually great on this rice, but additionally on all types of soups and salads.

Leftover Concepts

This recipe makes quantity of citrus rice, and we regularly have leftovers. It’s SO good the subsequent day, excellent for a fast fried rice for lunch, or simple dinner. The citrus ingredient is admittedly improbable and sudden when you aren’t within the know. 

When you’re in search of extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Snigger/cry. Remember to 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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