Golden Rice Recipes

GOLDEN FRIED RICE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, add the cooked white rice, egg yolks, salt, Shaoxing wine, white pepper, sesame oil, and turmeric (if using). Mix until every grain of rice is well-coated. There should be no lumps or chunks of rice.
• Preheat a wok over high heat until it starts to smoke. Add the oil, and swirl it around the perimeter of the wok.
• Add the rice, and stir-fry continuously for 1-2 minutes. Add the vegetables, and continue stir-frying. Once the rice grains are dry and start to pop around in the wok, taste and add an additional pinch of salt if needed. (A pinch of extra salt really brings out the flavor of this golden fried rice.) Stir in the scallions, and serve immediately.

SAVOURY RICE

Steps:

• Prepare the vegetables:
• 1. Peel and chop the onion
• 2. Slice the mushrooms
• 3. Deseed and dice the red pepper
• 4. Chop the tomato
• Fry the onion in oil until soft.
• Add the mushrooms and red pepper and cook for a further 2 minutes.
• Stir in the rice.
• Mix the stock powder with the water.
• Add the stock, peas and curry powder to the rice mixture.
• Simmer for 15 minutes, until the rice is tender.
• Serve the rice in a bowl and sprinkle the chopped tomato on top.

GOLDEN RICE

Steps:

• Put the saffron threads into a small bowl of hot water and allow to soak.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan with a low heat. Add the onions and cook for 5 minutes, stirring.
• Add the butter, cumin, cinnamon, salt, pepper, paprika and bay leaves and cook for two minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add the rice and continue to stir for three minutes.
• Add the saffron and stock. Bring to the boil then simmer for 20-25 minutes, or until all liquid has been absorbed. If necessary, add a little more stock and cook until rice is tender and all the liquid has been absorbed.
• Discard the bay leaves, season, stir through the cashews and serve.

GOLDEN SPICED RICE

Steps:

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• In a large saucepan, saute onion in oil until tender. Stir in rice and spices. Add broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30-35 minutes or until tender. Stir in raisins and almonds.

GOLDEN RICE

Steps:

• Heat butter and oil in saucepan set over medium heat; cook onion for 2 to 3 minutes or until slightly softened.
• Stir in rice; cook for 1 to 2 minutes or until well coated. Stir in 2 cups water, Roasted Chicken Base and turmeric; bring to boil.
• Cover and reduce heat to low; cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Remove from heat; let stand for 5 minutes.
• Fluff with fork. Stir in cranberries, pine nuts and parsley.

FIESTA GOLDEN RICE

Steps:

• 1. Bring the water, olive oil, saffron and salt to a boil in a pot. Stir in the rice and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove from heat, fluff rice with a fork and transfer to a bowl. Toss with the vinaigrette, then let cool.
• 2. Toss with the remaining ingredients. Adjust seasonings. Add additional vinaigrette if necessary. Serve at room temperature.

CAROLINA GOLD RICE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil and butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat until sizzling hot (see Know-how, page 100). Add the shallot and cook and stir for about 2 minutes, until soft and translucent. Add the rice, season with salt and pepper to taste, and stir to coat with oil and butter. Cook for about 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the thyme and just enough broth to cover the rice by about 1/4 inch, stirring just once to combine.
• Cover, reduce the heat to low, and simmer for about 20 minutes, until the rice is tender and all the liquid is absorbed. Remove from the heat and let sit, covered, for about 5 minutes. Serve warm.
• Often called the grandfather of long-grain rice in the Americas, Carolina Gold is a beautiful variety that was the star of the antebellum rice trade and a driving force in the creation of a distinct Southern culinary tradition. Despite these claims to fame, Carolina Gold fell by the wayside after the Civil War, along with the South's rice economy. It was half forgotten and nearly extinct by the time Richard Schulz, a Georgia surgeon and plantation owner, rehabilitated the grain in the 1980s. Thanks to his efforts, it is now once again commercially available from vendors like South Carolina's Carolina Plantation Rice and Anson Mills (see Sources, page 377).