Brazilian White Rice

I was searching for a recipe that was similar to a PR restaurant in my neighborhood. This was amazing copy. It needs to be paired with other food and is intentionally plain to complement your main dish. I didn’t have cal rose, so I used what I had - Japanese rice. Salt and oil really brings out a buttery flavor of the rice. The two of us kept going back for more and finished off the whole batch. Made this with pollo Al horno as the main.

Soooooo easy to make and so good! It’s my first time rice actually turned out good! Thanks for the easy easy recipe! Who knew adding a bit of onion and garlic would make this recipe so good!

Hi, I'm the submitter of this recipe. I just wanted to say thank you to all who have tried it and hope that you enjoy it with your loved ones. Although I love this recipe as it was passed on to me, it is very versatile. I play with it all the time! Feel free to do it too. My mom always used vegetable oil but due to personal taste I use olive oil and In addition, I frequently use chicken or vegetable broth, and add more onion and garlic. However if you prefer it to be more subtle then follow the recipe. You can use this method with most types of rice. It works well with brown basmati rice and I have tried it with vegetable medley and brown medley rice too. But beware that It will take longer to cook and may require more tweaking with the water or broth. I always get so many comments about how nice it smells while cooking. Please note that there is one other thing I do frequently... I partially uncover it during the last 5 minutes of cooking. This helps to speed up the cooking and ensures that it doesn't get sticky.

Great turn on plain old rice. I didn't have onion but had a giant clove of garlic. Use sesame oil as a twist to add even more nuttiness to toasting the rice first. I did put some soy on mine after it was done. Very yummy day before payday meal. I may add fresh peas next time too. Versatile.

It took me a while to decide on what to rate this dish. Made exactly as written, and we found it a bit bland. But it is what it says it is... White rice. This is a basic white rice dish in terms to flavours. What's special about this dish is the cooking method. It was so fragrant cooking the rice in the oil, onion and garlic mixture. My rice came out perfectly cooked in 20 minutes covered on a low simmer. And for that reason it was good. It was a good basic white rice.. Which cooked up better then good. I probably won't use this rice dish as a side again but it would be great served under a flavourful stirfry or curry. What I will take from this recipe though is the method of cooking.. I'm looking forward to using that again. Thanks!

A very simple way to put a slightly different spin on white rice.