Rice With Cheese
- Total Time
- 30 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:4 servings
- Salt
- 1½ to 2cups parboiled short-grain brown rice (see recipe)
- 3tablespoons butter
- ½cup grated fontina or other good semisoft cheese
- Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Freshly ground black pepper
Preparation
- Step 1
Bring a pot of water to a boil and salt it as you would to cook pasta. Add rice and stir. When water returns to a boil, lower heat and simmer rice until tender but not mushy, about 15 minutes. Drain.
- Step 2
Put butter in a saucepan large enough to hold rice and turn heat to medium. When butter melts and just begins to turn brown, add rice and toss together. Stir in fontina, then a handful of Parmesan, along with salt and pepper. Serve, passing more Parmesan at the table.
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Cooking Notes
Casey
First, it doesn't seem like this recipe was meant to use Uncle Ben's parboiled (converted) brown rice. The link to the parboiled brown rice recipe uses a Persian technique of boiling rice in a large amount of water, like amounts used for pasta, that is drained away. It cooks the rice quicker and leaves the rice so that the grains don't stick together.
ilyssa
Made this with black rice, it was good.
Bbrown
Why use two saucepans? Why can't you use the pan you cooked the rice in?
Joe
Isn't 15 minutes far too short a cooking time for brown rice? However, I guess if you're looking for an al dente (closer to crunchy?) texture....
e.masten
The recipe calls for par-boiled rice (already cooked for 15 minutes). My questions are "Why use parboiled rice? Why not just cook it for a total of 30 minutes before proceeding with the butter and cheese?"
Casey
First, it doesn't seem like this recipe was meant to use Uncle Ben's parboiled (converted) brown rice. The link to the parboiled brown rice recipe uses a Persian technique of boiling rice in a large amount of water, like amounts used for pasta, that is drained away. It cooks the rice quicker and leaves the rice so that the grains don't stick together.
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