Rice Almondine Food

ALMOND RICE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring the water, rice and butter to a boil. Remove from the heat. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes or until water is absorbed. Stir in the almonds, salt and pepper. Sprinkle with parsley.

DELICIOUS ALMOND RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir onion until tender, about 5 minutes. Add rice and almonds, cooking and stirring until rice is lightly toasted, about 5 minutes more. Stir in water, bouillon, and parsley; cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and allow rice to rest for 5 minutes before serving.

CITRUS TROUT ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Drizzle 2 sheets of foil with olive oil; sprinkle each with 1/4 cup sliced almonds and 3/4 teaspoon crushed coriander seeds. Brush four 6-ounce trout fillets with more olive oil; season with salt and pepper. Place each fillet, skin-side down, on top of the nuts. Top with a few orange slices (leave the peel on), then add another fillet, skin-side up, to form a trout sandwich. Sprinkle with more almonds and coriander seeds. Fold up the foil sheets and grill over high heat until the fish is just cooked through and the almonds are toasted, 8 to 10 minutes. Carefully loosen the almond crust from the bottom of the foil with a spatula.

ALMOND WILD RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Spray an 8-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
• Bring chicken broth to a boil in a saucepan.
• Pour rice mix into the prepared baking dish. Carefully pour boiling chicken broth over the rice. Cover the dish with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven until rice is tender, about 1 hour.
• Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir almonds in hot butter until they start to color, 3 to 5 minutes. Sprinkle parsley over the almonds; continue to cook and stir until the almonds are lightly browned, another 3 to 5 minutes.
• Mix the baked rice, the almond mixture, cranberries, salt, and pepper in a large bowl; toss to serve.

BROCCOLI ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Cook broccoli, drain and keep warm.
• Heat butter until melted, then add green onions and almonds and stir over medium heat for about 2 minutes.
• Add lemon juice, salt and pepper and pour the sauce over the broccoli.

RICE PILAF AMANDINE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spread the almonds on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown, about 6 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl and let cool.
• Bring a saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the haricots verts and cook until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Drain and rinse under cold water. Wipe out the saucepan.
• Melt the butter in the saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion, season with salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 4 minutes. Add the rice and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, 1 to 3 minutes. Add the chicken broth, bay leaf and lemon zest and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low; cover and simmer until the liquid is absorbed, about 18 minutes. Remove from the heat; add the haricots verts, cover and let stand 5 minutes. Uncover and stir in the lemon juice, half of the almonds, and pepper to taste. Remove the bay leaf. Transfer the rice to a bowl and top with the remaining almonds.

SOLE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Set a large nonstick saute pan over medium heat. Add the almonds and toast until golden brown, about 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and set aside.
• Return the pan to medium heat (if you have 2 pans you can work simultaneously at this point, i.e. 2 fillets per pan) and add a 2-count of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter to each pan.
• Put the flour in a shallow dish and season with salt and pepper, to taste. In another shallow dish, whisk together the eggs and milk and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Dredge the fillets in the seasoned flour, then dip them into the egg mixture. Allow some of the excess egg to drain off, then add them to the hot pan. Cook 2 pieces at a time. Fry for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, then carefully turn the fish over to cook the other side. With a spoon, baste the fillets with the butter sauce. Repeat basting to ensure the fish remains moist. Once the other side is cooked (about 30 seconds) carefully remove the fillets from the pan to a serving platter. Repeat with remaining 2 fillets and a 2-count of oil and 1 tablespoon of butter. Once the fillets have been removed the pan, add the chopped shallots and gently saute over low heat until translucent, about 1 minute. Deglaze the pan with the white wine and finish with the lemon juice. Swirl in the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the parsley and season, to taste, with salt and pepper. To serve, spoon the sauce over the top of the fillets and sprinkle generously with the toasted almonds.

CHICKEN ALMONDINE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute celery, green pepper and onion in butter until tender; remove from the heat. Add chicken, rice, broth, peas, pimientos, salt and pepper; mix well. Spoon into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. , Combine soup and mayonnaise; spread over chicken mixture. For topping, combine stuffing and almonds; sprinkle over casserole. Drizzle with butter. , Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake 15 minutes longer or until bubbly.

BROWN RICE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Cook and stir onion in hot margarine until tender.
• Add broth, lemon juice and garlic powder.
• Bring to boil.
• Stir in rice.
• Return to boil.
• Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in green beans, almonds and dill; cover.
• Let stand 5 minutes.

WILD RICE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Add the onion, chives, shallots and green pepper and sauté until soft.
• Stir in the rice and sauté 2 to 3 minutes more.
• Add the almonds, water chestnuts and mushrooms.
• Turn the mixture into a casserole dish.
• Stir in the boiling chicken broth and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Cover the casserole and bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.

TURKEY ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Combine the rice, turkey, soup, mayonnaise, celery, onion, and salt in a 13"x9" baking pan.
• Distribute cornflakes, almonds, and melted butter on top. Bake at 350*F. for 30 minutes. Enjoy!

RICE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Combine chicken broth or vegetable broth, parsley flakes, minced onion and oregano leaves in a heavy non-reactive saucepan over high heat.
• Bring to a boil and stir in rice and butter.
• Cover pan and reduce heat to medium low; cook 20 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes.
• Fluff rice with a fork and gently toss in toasted almonds and serve with chicken, pork or fish with a green vegetable.
• For Vegetarian meals do not use chicken broth use vegetable broth and margarine instead of butter.
• Enjoy!

RICE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• 1. Toast almonds in non-stick skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly.
• 2. In a 2-quart saucepan, combine broth, Parsley Flakes and margarine. Bring to a boil.
• 3. Stir in rice. Cover and reduce heat to simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork.
• 4. Gently toss in almonds and serve.

RICE ALMONDINE

Steps:

• Add the almonds and let sit, covered, until the rest of the liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes.

BAKED WILD RICE AMANDINE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475°F.
• In a 10-inch round baking dish toast almonds in oven until golden, about 5 minutes. Add butter and rice and toss to coat. Stir in broth and salt and cover dish with foil. Bake rice in lower third of oven 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until rice is tender. If all of broth has not been absorbed, bake rice, uncovered, 5 minutes more.
• Rice may be made 1 day ahead and reheated before serving.

SIMMERED PORK CHOPS W/ RICE ALMONDINE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. In a large skillet, add oil and heat until hot. Brown the pork chops on both sides over medium-low heat.
• 2. Add the onion slices and combine water, brown sugar, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Add to the pork chops and reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until pork chops are almost done.
• 3. Add sherry and continue simmering, covered, for an additional 5 minutes.
• 4. For rice casserole, preheat oven to 350-375 degrees F. Prepare casserole dish. Combine the cooked rice, sour cream, peas, salt & pepper. Spoon rice mixture into casserole dish and dot with butter. Combine the breadcrumbs and almonds and sprinkle mixture over the rice. Bake for approx. 5-10 minutes or until heated through and breadcrumbs are toasted slightly.