Wonderful flavor and textured rice dish.
Ingredients
- ½ cups chicken stock: 1 piece
- vegetable oil: 1 Tbsp
- onion: 0.25 cup (finely diced)
- bay leaf: 1 piece
- uncooked basmati rice: 1 cup
- salt: (to taste)
- unsalted butter: 1 Tbsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Heat chicken stock in a saucepan until boiling; keep hot until ready to use.
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Heat vegetable oil in a 2 quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion and bay leaf in the hot oil until onion is tender, about 5 minutes.
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Stir basmati rice into onion mixture until rice is coated with oil.
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Pour hot chicken stock into the rice mixture. Season with salt; stir.
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Bring rice mixture to a boil; cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Continue simmering until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
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Remove saucepan from heat and discard bay leaf. Add butter and fluff the rice with a fork.
