Yellow Rice

Submitted by dicentra

"This is from 365 Low Fat Recipes. Posting for ZWT3. Middle East. Add currants and/or sliced scallions if you’d like."

 

• Ready In: 17mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 cup basmati rice
• 2 inches cinnamon sticks
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Place turmeric and cumin in a medium saucepan and toss over low heat until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
2. Add rice, 2 cups of water, cinnamon stick and salt; stir once.
3. Bring to a boil; reduce heat.
4. Cover and simmer 10-12 minutes, or until water is absorbed and rice is tender.
5. Remove from heat. Let stand 3 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick and fluff with a fork before serving.

Reviews

[maggiepcs]

This is a great, versatile way to dress up rice for Latin and Indian dishes. Thanks!

 

[Vseward Chef-V]

This a great new way to make rice, well for me anyway ;) My family enjoyed every bit of it. Made for Labor Day BBQ and it was a hit! Thanks for sharing such a wonderful recipe. ~V

 

[Leslie]

This was a terrific side dish that my whole family enjoyed. I did have to use brown rice as that was all I had on hand, but the flavours came through really well. We really liked this, thanks for posting! Made for ZWT 3

 

[UmmBinat]

I like this recipe and use it quite often. I use sea salt. This comes out way more yellow than the photo by ~Leslie~. I sometimes add yellow or black raisins or lightly toasted pine nuts or it is lovely with slivered almonds and the raisins thrown in before cooking served with recipe#193241 and yogurt.