Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice is a straightforward but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – it goes with every little thing. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!
I do not know what you’re planning to make for dinner tonight. However no matter it’s, a giant steamy mound of garlicky, buttery rice with candy pops of corn goes to work with it, and it’ll make your meal even higher than you already envisage it to be!!
And such is the fantastic thing about as we speak’s recipe. It’s a kind of unicorns that simply works with any delicacies and any meals that may do with a starchy facet. A stir fry? Undoubtedly! Lemony Rooster Francese? Oh sure. Firecracker Beef? Oh course! Coq au vin? Attempt to cease me!
It’s tasty sufficient to eat by the spoonful, straight out of the pot however impartial sufficient to work with full flavoured, saucy mains, just like the Mexican Chipotle Pork & Beans pictured under. I additionally see myself topping it with canned tuna, a squiggle of kewpie mayo and dollop of chilli. Sizzling Buttered Corn Tuna Rice Bowl! Sounds a lot extra attention-grabbing than tuna and rice. 😂
Substances for Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice
Right here’s what you have to make this buttery, garlicky rice! Inexperienced onion isn’t vital.
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Corn – I exploit frozen corn for comfort so think about how nice it’s with contemporary corn! Canned corn will work too but it surely’s not my first choose because it’s slightly softer so as soon as cooked, it’s a little too smooth for my style.
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White rice – I like to make use of lengthy grain white rice for this dish because the rice stays fluffier as a result of the rice itself is much less sticky than quick grain rice (like sushi rice).
Substitutes: Basmati rice (works simply as nicely, with slightly additional fragrance of flavour), medium grain rice (subsequent finest), sushi rice (works however the rice is slightly stickier).
Don’t use: Jasmine rice (too smooth, requires completely different cooking therapy), brown rice, risotto rice, paella rice, wild rice, quinoa, or any fake rice (eg cauliflower rice), any par-cooked rice (these microwave packets). The recipe isn’t designed for this, it could require tweaking.
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Butter – For buttery goodness! Some is used to cook dinner the corn and rice, then we stir some via on the finish for hit of buttery flavour.
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Garlic – 3 entire cloves! Garlic + butter + corn = residence run.
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Inexperienced onion – For slightly hit of contemporary and beautiful inexperienced color. Not the top of the world in case you don’t have it. You would additionally simply sauté slightly onion or eschalots (US: shallots) with the corn.
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Rooster or vegetable inventory/broth – The cooking liquid. As a result of it’s tastier than water and we’re making a fast recipe right here, so we’d like the additional serving to hand. If we had been going to the trouble of constructing a home made corn inventory, we might get away with utilizing water. However we’re not! Not as we speak. 🙂 (However if you wish to make one thing utilizing a home made corn inventory, make this Chilly Corn Soup! It’s superb – but it surely does require extra effort than this recipe.)
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Salt – Just a bit bit (1/4 teaspoon), so the rice has sufficient flavour to eat it by the spoonful straight out of the pot. Simply calmly salted is finest else your general meal might be too salty whenever you add a correctly seasoned primary onto the plate, just like the pictured Shredded Chipotle Mexican Pork and Beans.
How one can make Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice
Use a small pot or massive saucepan (20 – 22 cm/8 – 9″+). In case your saucepan is just too small, the depth of the rice might be too deep so the rice will cook dinner inconsistently, with mushy rice on the bottom and uncooked rice on the floor. In case you use a pot that’s too massive, then the depth of the rice might be too shallow so the liquid will evaporate too quick, leaving your rice undercooked, and sure with some burnt patches.
The pictured pot is 24cm / 9.4″ and it’s a wee bit on the big facet, however OK for knowledgeable rice makers!
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Sauté – Soften the butter over excessive warmth. Add the garlic and stir for 15 seconds till it smells superb, however don’t let it go golden. Add the corn (nonetheless frozen is ok) and stir for two minutes. It’s going to thaw and coat the floor within the tasty garlic butter.
If utilizing contemporary corn, it received’t cook dinner via on this time which is ok as a result of it is going to steam cook dinner with the rice.
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Coat rice – Add the rice and stir to coat it within the tasty garlic butter flavour.
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Convey to simmer correctly – Add the inventory and salt. Stir then let the inventory come to a simmer.
⚠️ Be certain that the entire floor is effervescent or rippling, not simply across the edges, earlier than you decrease the warmth and put the lid on. We need to ensure the inventory will get sufficient warmth in it to verify the rice truly cooks, reasonably than sitting in sizzling water simply bloating.
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Cook dinner the rice for 12 minutes with the lid on. No peeking (this lets steam escape) and no stirring (specific path to mushy rice!). On the finish of this time, the water must be absorbed by the rice. Tilt the pot and peek rapidly to verify.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the the range and depart it to relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid nonetheless on. This step is so necessary anytime you cook dinner rice, whether or not plain or fully-loaded! The rice will end cooking and the residual water on the floor of the grains will get absorbed, leaving the rice superbly fluffy. See FAQ for extra details about this and for extra rice-making rantings, see my How one can cook dinner White Rice put up. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
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Butter & fluff – Take away the lid and add the butter. Gently fluff the rice. As soon as the butter is usually melted, toss the inexperienced onion via. By the point you’ve completed, the butter must be absolutely melted. Time to serve, whereas it’s sizzling and contemporary! In spite of everything, it’s referred to as HOT Buttered Corn Rice, not Lukewarm Corn Rice (nicely there’s a median recipe identify for you!).
Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice will final for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. And it’ll reheat rather well, so this can be a good one so as to add to your menu planning for a giant gathering as a result of you may make it nicely prematurely then simply reheat till steamy!
I’m additionally pondering this may be one so as to add to the RecipeTin Meals rotation! (That is my meals financial institution the place we make and donate meals to the weak). Although presumably my crew will make a model with extra greens in it so it will likely be a whole two-in-one facet dish (ie starch plus greens). Then we are able to simply add a bit of protein and we’ll have a whole, nutritious meal that’s environment friendly to make on a big scale! Should run this previous them. 🙂 – Nagi x
Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice FAQ
No, you don’t. You simply want the precise water to rice ratio which is 1.5 : 1 for many sorts of white rice cooked on the range.
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this, the rice might be mushy.
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this and rinses the rice, the rice might be VERY mushy (as a result of there’s additionally water within the waterlogged rice).
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this and rinses the rice and soaks the rice -> 🤯
The one motive to rinse rice is in case you are involved about cleanliness (in case you purchase rice in packets from grocery shops like I do, you do not want to fret about this) or in case you are making a speciality rice recipe like Biryani.
For heaps extra rice making rantings, see my How one can cook dinner White Rice put up. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
In case you insist on rinsing the rice (I get it, some habits are unattainable to interrupt) then you’ll need to scale back the inventory within the recipe by 2 tablespoons, to account for the water logged within the rice.
As a result of throughout this step, the rice will end cooking and the water on the floor of every grain will get absorbed, leaving the rice fluffy. In case you skip this step, the rice might be moist and slippery with a tough centre.
In case you’re pondering can’t I simply add extra water and cook dinner for longer to I can skip this step so I can get the rice on the desk quicker? The reply isn’t any! The rice will find yourself mushy as a result of the surface of every rice grain will take up an excessive amount of water and overcook by the point the centre of the rice cooks.
The one technique to cook dinner rice via correctly is to take it off the range when the outdoors of every grain is completely cooked however the inside remains to be a bit arduous. At this stage, there may be additionally a slick of water on the floor of every rice grain. Then in the course of the resting stage, this layer of water will get absorbed by every rice grain and the residual warmth spreads it via to the centre of the grain so it softens and finishes cooking via.
By the way in which, in case you rinse rice or soak rice, you continue to should relaxation the cooked rice. There is no such thing as a getting round this step, if you need correctly cooked rice!!
You can also make as much as triple the recipe utilizing a big inventory pot. In case you attempt to scale up any extra, the depth of the rice might be too nice so the rice will cook dinner inconsistently (mushy).
If tripling or doubling the recipe, be sure you deliver the liquid as much as a full boil earlier than placing the lid on, and decrease the warmth to medium low reasonably than low, and cook dinner for 18 to twenty minutes (tilt pot to verify to make sure all of the inventory is absorbed). Anticipate a little bit of golden crunchy rice on the bottom (truly, it’s my favorite half – chef’s deal with!)
It’s going to serve 4 to five as a facet dish for a daily meal. If making it as half of a bigger banquet the place there are different starches (like bread rolls, potato salad, macaroni salad), it is going to simply serve 6 to eight (a big, heaped serving spoon scoop per particular person).
Make per the recipe, together with fluffing and stirring via butter whereas sizzling. Then let it absolutely cool, uncovered, earlier than storing in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days, or freezer for 3 months.
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Sizzling buttered corn rice
Prep: 7 minutes
Cook dinner: 12 minutes
Rice resting: 10 minutes
Whole: 29 minutes
Rice, Sides
Western
Servings4 – 5 as a facet
Faucet or hover to scale
Recipe video above. Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice – a easy but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – goes with every little thing. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!
Directions
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Sauté – Soften half the butter in a pot over excessive warmth. Add the garlic and stir for 15 seconds. Add the corn and half the salt. Stir for two minutes.
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Convey to simmer – Add the rice and stir for 30 seconds. Add the inventory and remaining salt. Stir, deliver to a simmer (ensure the entire floor is effervescent/ripplling), then put the lid on and switch the warmth right down to medium low (or low, in case your range is powerful). (Notice 3)
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Cook dinner for 12 minutes (no peeking, no stirring!). The liquid must be absorbed by now – tilt the pot and take a fast peek to verify.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the range and let it relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid on. This step is essential, don’t skip it! (Notice 4)
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Toss – Carry the lid, add the remaining butter, fluff the rice to soften the butter via. Add inexperienced onion and toss via.
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Tumble into serving bowl. Serve sizzling!
Recipe Notes:
2. Rice – Lengthy grain finest (that is what I exploit), additionally basmati works simply as nicely. Subsequent finest is medium grain. Brief grain (sushi rice) may even work however the rice is a bit stickier.
No have to rinse rice until you’re involved about cleanliness. Don’t fear, the rice is fluffy (see video proof) as a result of we’re utilizing the precise water to rice ratio of 1.5:1. In case you can’t shake the behavior, go forward and rinse however scale back the inventory by 2 tablespoons (to account for waterlogged rice).
Don’t use: jasmine rice, brown rice, risotto rice, paella rice, wild rice, black rice, quinoa, or any fake rice (eg cauliflower rice), any par-cooked rice (these microwave packets).
3. Effervescent inventory – Be certain that the entire floor of your liquid is effervescent / rippling, not simply across the edge, to verify the inventory is sizzling sufficient earlier than decreasing the warmth and beginning the timer.
4. Resting rice is essential to permit the rice to complete cooking and grow to be fluffy. Learn in put up for extra rantings about why that is so necessary! (Within the How To Make part).
Retains for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Reheats extraordinarily nicely. Glorious one to make forward for gatherings!
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