Oven Cooked Rice Pilaf Food

CLASSIC RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Melt butter and olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir until onion is lightly browned, 7 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Combine rice and onion mixture in a 9x13-inch casserole dish placed on a baking sheet. Stir thoroughly to coat the rice.
• Combine chicken stock, salt, saffron, and cayenne pepper in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Pour chicken stock mixture over rice in the casserole dish and stir to combine. Spread mixture evenly along the bottom of the pan. Cover tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to rest, covered, for 10 minutes. Remove foil and fluff with a fork to separate the grains of rice.

BAKED RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil and butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook celery, sweet onion, and garlic until the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Combine rice, green onions, raisins, curry powder, salt, saffron, and cayenne pepper in a 9x13-inch baking pan; stir well. Stir in the celery mixture and chicken stock. Cover pan tightly with aluminum foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven until rice is tender, about 35 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes; fluff with a fork.

BAKED RICE PILAF

Steps:

• In an ungreased 8-in. square baking dish, combine all the ingredients. Cover and bake at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring after 25 minutes.

BAKED BROWN RICE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place the rice into an 8-inch square glass baking dish.
• Bring the water, butter, and salt just to a boil in a kettle or covered saucepan. Once the water boils, pour it over the rice, stir to combine, and cover the dish tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 1 hour.
• After 1 hour, remove cover and fluff the rice with a fork. Serve immediately.

OVEN-BAKED WILD RICE PILAF WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Heat oil in a large dutch oven over medium heat. Add leeks and cook for 5 minutes or unil soft, stirring often.
• Raise heat to medium, add mushrooms and cook for 7 minutes, or until liquid has evaporated and mushrooms begin to brown.
• Srir in garlic and thyme, and cook 1 minute or until fragrant.
• Stir in rice. Add wine and soy sauce, simmer 2 minutes or until almost all of the liquid has been absorbed. Add broth and 1 cup of water and return to a simmer.
• Place lid on Dutch oven and bake 45 minutes. Remove lid, and bake 30 minutes more or until most of the liquid has been absorbed.
• Remove from oven, cover and let stand 5 minutes.
• Fold in peas and pine nuts. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

EASY RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Rinse rice under cold water and drain well.
• Combine onion, butter, and garlic in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat to soften, about 3 minutes.
• Add rice and cook until it begins to smell toasted and turn slightly golden, about 7-10 minutes.
• Add remaining ingredients except green onions and almonds. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to a low simmer for 15-20 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
• Remove from the heat and allow to sit covered for 5 minutes.
• Fluff with a fork and garnish with almonds and parsley.

HOW TO COOK RICE FOR A CROWD (EASY OVEN METHOD)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
• Place 3 quarts uncooked rice in large roasting pan (lightly sprayed with cooking spray), spread evenly. Set aside.
• In a large stock-pot, combine water and salt. Bring to a rolling boil.
• CAREFULLY pour boiling water over rice and stir so rice is even along the bottom.
• Immediately cover tightly with aluminum foil. Make sure you have a tight seal around ALL the edges.
• Place roasting pan in oven and bake for 40-45 minutes or until rice is tender.
• Fluff with a large wooden spoon & serve.
• **Note: If you want to wait to serve, just keep in the oven at 150 degrees or so or keep warm in an electric warming pan. Add a little water if necessary to keep from drying out.

RICE PILAF RECIPE

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat add 4 tablespoons butter, chicken broth, salt, pepper, and paprika, cayenne, and when it starts to boil, reduce heat to low.
• In a large, deep skillet, over medium heat, add 4 tablespoons butter. Saute the chopped onion in butter until it is soft and translucent.
• Add vermicelli and cook for about 4 or 5 minutes until it is browned. (Be careful not to burn.)
• Add rice and cook for about 5 minutes or until it looks bright white.
• Add minced garlic and cook for about 1 minute.
• Pour broth into the skillet with rice, cover and cook until rice is cooked about 15 to 20 minutes.

MUSHROOM OVEN RICE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute the rice in butter for 2 minutes or until golden brown. Add celery and onion; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms; cook and stir until the celery is tender. , Transfer to a greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Stir in the broth, water, soy sauce and parsley. Cover and bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.

FLUFFY RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Bring stock to a simmer in a small saucepan.
• Melt butter in a 2-quart ovenproof saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, bay leaf, and salt and cook until onion is soft and translucent, stirring occasionally, about 3 minutes.
• Add rice and stir well to coat each grain with butter mixture. Cook until rice is fragrant and starting to turn translucent, stirring frequently, about 3 minutes.
• Add stock and return to a simmer. Transfer to oven, cover, and bake for 16 minutes. Remove from oven. Cover and let steam for 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork before serving.

OVEN BAKED CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F.
• Scatter onion and garlic in a baking dish (about 10 x 15" / 25 x 35 cm), then place butter in the centre. Bake for 15 minutes (check at 12 minutes, mix if some bits are browning too much).
• Meanwhile, mix together Chicken Rub. Sprinkle on both sides of the chicken.
• Remove baking dish from the oven. Add rice then mix.
• Place chicken on rice. Then pour chicken broth and water around the chicken.
• Cover with foil, then bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil, spray chicken with oil (optional, gives chicken nicer finish), then bake for a further 20 minutes until liquid is absorbed.
• Stand for 5 minutes, then remove chicken and fluff up rice. Garnish with parsley or thyme if desired, serve and enjoy!

OVEN-COOKED RICE PILAF

Steps:

• In a 1 quart casserole combine boiling broth and butter; stir until butter is melted. Stir in rice, onions, celery & carrot. Bake, covered, in a 350 degree F. oven about 35 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed. Fluff with a fork before serving.

BAKED RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Melt the butter over medium heat on the stove top in a heavy oven proof saucepan or stove top casserole dish. Add the onions, carrots, red pepper and celery and saute for 2-3 minutes until the vegetables are softened. Add the rice, stir and saute for an additional 2-3 minutes. Meanwhile, boil some water in a kettle. In a measuring cup, add the chicken bouillon to 1 1/2 cups of boiling water. Slowly add the chicken stock to the rice and vegetables. Stir making sure there are no lumps in the rice. Cover with a close fitting lid and place it in the oven. Bake the rice pilaf in the preheated oven for exactly 17 minutes. While the rice is cooking, toast the almonds by putting them on a baking sheet in a preheated toaster oven at 350 degrees for 2 minutes. Watch them carefully as they burn quickly. Remove and once cool, coarsely chop them. (If you don't have a toaster oven, you can toast the almonds in the main oven while it is preheating.) Once the rice is cooked, remove it from the oven and stir in the toasted almonds. If the rice is not to be served immediately, keep it covered in a warm place.