Spanish

Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice)

Name: Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1.5 cups long-grain rice; 1 garlic clove; 1 bay leaf; 2 tbsp olive oil; 3 cups water; 1 tsp salt

Pilar @pilar_zgz

Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups long-grain rice
1 garlic clove
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp olive oil
3 cups water
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring the water, garlic clove, bay leaf, and salt to a boil in a saucepan.
Stir in the rice, cover, and lower the heat to a bare simmer, cooking for 15 to 18 minutes, until the water is absorbed and the rice is tender.
Remove from the heat and let the rice stand, covered, for 5 minutes, then fish out the garlic and bay leaf.
Fluff with a fork, drizzle with the olive oil, and serve; the plain guarnicion that sits beside a fillet, under a fried egg, or with tomato sauce, and the comida bread basket had nothing this simple in it.

Watch how to cook Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something to sip
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Boquerones en Vinagre (Vinegar-Cured Anchovies)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 240 kcal
Protein: 4 g
Carbs: 40 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.