Southern

Rice and Gravy

Name: Rice and Gravy
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 cups white rice; 3 tbsp butter; 3 tbsp all-purpose flour; 2.5 cups beef broth; 1/2 onion, chopped; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Tamika @tamika_clt

Rice and Gravy is Southern 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.

25 min Easy Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups white rice
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
2.5 cups beef broth
1/2 onion, chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Cook the rice according to package directions and keep warm.
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat, add the onion, and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
Whisk in the flour and cook, stirring, until deep golden brown, about 5 minutes.
Gradually whisk in the broth and simmer until the gravy thickens, about 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper.
Spoon the rice into bowls and ladle the gravy generously over the top.

Watch how to cook Rice and Gravy

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

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Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rice and Gravy, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Rice and Gravy carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Rice and Gravy
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Vegetarian Baked Beans
Gluten	Yes	Cheese Grits
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: 420 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 78 g
Fat: 9 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 560 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

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

When to cook it

Rice and Gravy takes about 25 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.