Super Orange Citrus Rice

This unbelievable citrus rice is flooded with orange juice, flecked with celery and carrots, and boosted with a packet of French onion dip combine. It’s lovely, scrumptious, and should 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 right base for a rice bowl, and I really like utilizing leftovers the following 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 totally different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, elements and textures. A variety of you understand how a lot I love a superb rice state of affairs – I included an entire part of concepts at the back of Super Natural Simple. I additionally continuously revisit Bryant Terry’s Amazing Green Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice state of affairs. Just 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 really like about flea markets, property and yard gross sales is discovering and looking previous cookbooks. I come throughout loads of neighborhood cookbooks, and at all times have my eyes peeled for books which might be particular, unusually, and/or regionally particular. Right now’s recipe was impressed by a cookbook I picked up a couple of years in the past, printed by Sunkist in 1968. It’s cover-to-cover recipes which might be citrus impressed – notice the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits.

Just a few of the recipes caught my consideration. Particularly, there’s an orange rice recipe that requires “on the spot minced onions.” I imagined that may add a pleasant seasoning ingredient to a citrus rice. I are inclined to hold French onion soup combine readily available to make the French Onion Strata in Super Natural Simple, and have dehydrated onions in my pantry as effectively. Right now’s recipe developed from there. I really like the best way the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, preserving 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 also needs to 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 final rule of thumb right here is sure, you may seemingly use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. You must merely modify the quantity of liquid and cooking time based on no matter you usually use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, should 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 complete liquid). Hope that is smart. It’s a great distance of claiming you may seemingly make this with success with no matter rice you may have readily available.

Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal

You possibly can 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 couple of teaspoons soy sauce and baked till golden in a 375F oven. Wasabi paste could be tough to return 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.

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 overlook, in case your celery is further leafy, remember to make your individual celery salt! It is actually great on this rice, but in addition on all types of soups and salads.

Leftover Concepts

This recipe makes a superb quantity of citrus rice, and we regularly have leftovers. It’s SO good the following day, excellent for a fast fried rice for lunch, or simple dinner. The citrus ingredient is absolutely unbelievable and surprising should you aren’t within the know.

In case you’re on the lookout for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Chortle/cry. Be sure you do that green rice, my favourite mushroom casserole, and this vegetarian take on paella. I additionally love cooking with quinoa, cooking with lentils, and on the citrus recipe entrance, don’t miss this citrus salt – it is a lot enjoyable to mess around with a spread of limes, lemons, grapefruits, and tangerines! Take pleasure in! -h