Yellow rice
Yellow rice is simple, fragrant, slightly spicy and most of all, pretty as a picture. It is made with turmeric.
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons tumeric (kurkum)
- 1 small onion (chopped)
- 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
- 1 seasoning cube
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- dry chili pepper
Instructions
- Chop onions and crush garlic cloves set aside.
- Parboil rice until halfway done. Drain into a sieve, rinse under cold water and set aside.
- In a dry pot over low heat, pour vegetable oil, when hot, add onions and fry until soft.
- Add crushed garlic, fry until you smell it.
- Add rice, water, seasoning cube, turmeric powder and salt.
- Stir well and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat cook until rice is soft.
- Take off the heat serve with Coconut curry sauce, Tomato sauce or the Easy Nigerian vegetable sauce.
Notes
- If using raw rice, wash rice with several changes of water to remove excess starch, pour into a sieve to drain.
- Add washed rice to the fried onions and garlic, stir to coat with the oil over medium heat.
