Baked Lemon Rice Pilaf
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 4 1⁄2 cups chicken broth (36 oz) or 4 1/2 cups vegetable stock (36 oz)
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup onion, diced
- 2 1⁄2 cups long grain rice, uncooked
- 2 lemons, juice and zest of, finely zested
- 3 bay leaves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Heat stock, bringing to boil and then down to simmer.
- Melt the butter in a large non stick skillet over medium heat. Add onions and cook for 2 minutes or until the onion is softened. Add the rice and stir to coat the rice with butter. Cook 3 minutes stirring often so that the rice does not burn.
- Transfer rice to large baking dish. Pour in hot stock. Stir in lemon juice, zest, bay leaves, salt and pepper.
- Cover pan tightly with aluminum foil and bake for 25-30 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.
- Fluff the rice just before serving and garnish with lemon slices and sliced green onion if desired.
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Reviews
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Yummy. I'm giving this five stars for flavor and ease even though I had some cooking problems. But, I used brown rice so that may be why my dish needed about 45 minutes, eventually uncovered, to finally absorb the liquid and be ready. I used homemade fish stock and it produced a lovely, lemony side for our panko-crusted fish dinner. I halved the recipe but even so, we had leftovers the next night, which microwaved nicely. Thanks...this is a keeper.
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