BajaHawk - 6-11-2006 at 08:55 PM
Wha tis your favorite "Spanish Rice recipe? Authebtic, easy, or just plain good.
bajajudy - 6-12-2006 at 06:32 AM
I saute in olive oil onion, garlic and celery until translucent. Then I add rice(cooked) and a tablespoon or so of tomato paste and hot sauce to
taste. Sprinkle some fresh cilantro on top just before serving. I dont really know quantities, but thats the basics.
Of your categories, I would call this one easy
Bruce R Leech - 6-12-2006 at 06:50 AM
allot of the Mexican cooks will first in a heavy well seasoned cast iron fry pan and Just enough oil to cote it fry the rice with some garlic until
the rice is translucent. then add the onions, tomatoes, chills, salt and pepper and enough clamato juice to cover the rice. cover and cook until the
rice is tender. checking , stirring and adding water as needed . this way takes a little longer but it is worth it.
variation....... when the rice is done cook until the rice starts to a little dry add a little more oil and under low heat lightly fry the rice
again.
I also like to use olive oil. although the Mexican cooks don't.
[Edited on 6-12-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
Bruce R Leech - 6-12-2006 at 08:10 AM
they sell like hot cakes at the second hand market's. lots of people have them here and they are a part of there treasured possessions.
lencho. My friend Ana in Mulege makes flan in a pressure cooker
Keri - 6-12-2006 at 08:18 AM
and has a small cast iron skillet she carmelizes her sugar in first. She cooks the sugar and then wipes out the pan with a paper towel and the puts it
in a bag and its ready for use the next time. It is only used for the sugar never anything else. Her flan is the best in town,k
[Edited on 6-12-2006 by Keri]
Bruce R Leech - 6-12-2006 at 08:46 AM
most of the Mexicans here that don't have a cast iron skillet wish they did.
it is a good gift to give to your Mexican friends they cost about 2 bucks at the second hand stores and the will last a lifetime.
Geronimo - 6-22-2006 at 03:42 PM
I have a 150 year old cast iron skillit from my Grandmothers family. They settled along the Bill Williams river in western Az in the 1790's. She
would never fry in anything but black iron. As for rice.....
Brown rice in Mantca with garlic and onion
add water, stewed tomatos and tomato bullion or dryed tomato paste
salt, peper and cook like normal rice.
I like some corn but can only admit this out of range of my father and since my Nana has passed on, I am sure the knuckles the head would be the
reaction (from Nana, just discuss from Dad)
We do a charity dinner have been know to do 20 12" Dutch ovens full in the course of an hour.