2000s Recipes + Menus

Nutty Brown Rice
Serves4
- Active time:10 min
- Start to finish:1 hr
November 2008
Even brown-rice skeptics will enjoy this textural dish full of butter-browned nuts.
- 4 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups short-grain brown rice
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups mixed nuts, chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
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Bring water to a boil in a heavy medium saucepan. Add rice and 1/4 tsp salt, then reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until rice is tender, about 40 minutes. Drain in a sieve.
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Heat butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat until foam subsides. Add nuts and cook, stirring, until butter and nuts are golden brown, about 4 minutes.
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Add rice and nutmeg to skillet and toss to coat.
- Keywords
- andrea albin,
- nuts,
- rice,
- quick kitchen,
- vegetarian