Recently, I have been drooling and dreaming about all those butter recipes I surf online. I blame the harmones :P I was checking out garlic bread and guess what popped out? Why not try something similar with rice? And here is the delicious result! :)
Garlic butter rice
Ingredients: (Serves 1, cook time - 15 minutes)
Garlic - chopped 1 1/2 tablespoon
Salted butter - 1 tablespoon
Scallions/ Spring Onion leaves - 1 tablespoon chopped
Chicken broth - 400 ml OR Maggi Chicken broth powder - 1 cube
Basmathi rice - 250 gm
Soak the rice in water for 10 minutes. Meanwhile mealt the butter in a pan (prefer a pan with a lid).
Add th chopped garlic to it and sauté it in low flame so that you dont burn it. After 2 minutes add the chopped onion leaves and saute it for 3 more minutes. Now add the chicken broth or 400 ml of water. If its water, add the maggi chicken broth powder cube to it and let it dissolve in high flame. Taste it to check salt. A little salty a lot better. Now add tge stained rice and close cook it for 10 minutes in medium flame. Remember we are donr going to drain it at the end to if you feel like the water is not observed completely by the end of 10 minutes, open it inbetween and stir it one or twice. Ideally for this measurement the water will be observed completely. At the end stir it and slowly spread it inside the pan so that they dont stick to each other. The butter added earlier not adds to the flavour, but also makes sure that the rice is not sticky. Don’t you feel the aroma yet? :)
Lemon chicken
Ingredients: (Serves 1, cook time - 10 minutes)
Boneless chicken - 100 gm diced
Pepper - 1 teaspoon
Salt as needed
Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
Chopped coriander - 1 teaspoon
Oil - 1 tablespoon
Heat the oil in the pan and saute the chicken cubes for 3 minutes. Now add salt and pepper. Stir it well so that the chicken pieces get coated. Close cook it for a minute. Add a little water and lemon juice to it. Stir well and close cook it for it for 5 minutes in high flame. Once ypu see the water kind of forming a thick layer around the pieces add corriander and give it a final stir. There you go! :)
Serve them hot side by side and let the food do the talking :)