Santiago - 9-22-2019 at 09:03 AM
Really good green-rice recipe, good side dish instead of the usual tomato based rice. Makes a full meal with chicken, pork and especially a spicy
sausage added.
Mexican Green Rice
A cilantro rice pilaf cooked in chicken stock with poblano chiles, parsley, cilantro, onion, and garlic. Also called Arroz verde.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 50 minutes
Yield: Serves 6
INGREDIENTS
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 cups long grain white rice
2 1/4 cups chicken stock (or more depending on your rice*)
1 cup roughly chopped parsley, lightly packed
1/2 cup roughly chopped cilantro, lightly packed
2 large poblano chiles, seeded and roughly chopped
2 Tbsp chopped onion
1 garlic clove, peeled, roughly chopped
Salt to taste**
*Use the amount of stock that is the liquid requirement of your particular brand of rice. Long grain rice typically ranges from 1 1/2 cups of liquid
per cup of rice to 2 cups of liquid per cup of rice.
**If you are using homemade unsalted stock, you will want to add at least half a teaspoon of salt to the stock.
METHOD
1 Purée parsley, cilantro, chiles, onion, garlic, 1/2 cup of stock: Place the parsley, cilantro, poblanos, onion, garlic, and 1/2 cup of the chicken
stock in a food processor. Pulse until smooth.
2 Brown the rice: Heat the oil in a thick-bottomed pot on high heat. Add the rice and stir to coat all of the grains with oil. Spread out in an even
layer.
Let the rice lightly brown. When it starts to brown, stir it and spread it out in an even layer again so that more of the rice browns.
3 Stir parsley cilantro mixture into rice: When much of the rice has lightly browned, scrape out the parsley purée from the food processor into the
rice. Stir to evenly mix the purée with the rice. Let cook for a minute or two.
4 Add remaining stock, simmer, cover, cook: Add the rest of the chicken stock to the pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a low simmer and
cover the pot. Let cook on a very low simmer for 15 minutes, or as long as your package of rice indicates is the right cooking time for your rice.
5 Remove from heat, cover with towel and lid, let sit: After the cooking time indicated on your rice package, remove the pot from heat. Uncover the
pot and place a clean terry towel or dish towel over the pot, then re-cover.
The towel will help absorb excess liquid as the rice continues to cook in its own steam. (If you don't have a clean towel, you can skip this step,
just cover normally.) Let sit for 20 minutes.
Fluff the rice with a fork and serve.
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larryC - 9-22-2019 at 09:34 AM
Thanks Jim I'm going to try this. Also good luck with the batteries.
advrider - 9-22-2019 at 09:51 PM
Sounds amazing..