American

Rice Pilaf

Name: Rice Pilaf
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1.5 cups long-grain rice; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 onion; 2.5 cups vegetable broth; 1/2 tsp salt

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Rice Pilaf is American 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 Medium Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups long-grain rice
2 tbsp butter
1/2 onion
2.5 cups vegetable broth
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Melt the butter in a saucepan and cook the diced onion until soft, about 4 minutes.
Add the rice and stir until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes.
Pour in the broth and salt, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until the rice is tender, about 18 minutes.
Fluff with a fork and serve.

Watch how to cook Rice Pilaf

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

Classic Rice Pilaf - How to Make Perfect Rice Play the video

Serve it with

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

The dish at the centre
- Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
  
  45 min
The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 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 Pilaf carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Rice Pilaf
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Baked Sweet Potato
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: 220 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 39 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 420 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

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

When to cook it

Rice Pilaf takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.