Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice is a straightforward but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – it goes with all the pieces. 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, an enormous 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 at the moment’s recipe. It’s a kind of unicorns that simply works with any delicacies and any meals that may do with a starchy aspect. A stir fry? Undoubtedly! Lemony Hen 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 fascinating than tuna and rice. 😂
Elements for Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice
Right here’s what it’s essential make this buttery, garlicky rice! Inexperienced onion isn’t crucial.
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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 however it’s not my first decide because it’s a bit softer so as soon as cooked, it’s a little too mushy 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 brief grain rice (like sushi rice).
Substitutes: Basmati rice (works simply as properly, with a bit further fragrance of flavour), medium grain rice (subsequent finest), sushi rice (works however the rice is a bit stickier).
Don’t use: Jasmine rice (too mushy, requires totally different cooking remedy), 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 by means of on the finish for an excellent hit of buttery flavour.
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Garlic – 3 complete cloves! Garlic + butter + corn = residence run.
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Inexperienced onion – For a bit hit of contemporary and beautiful inexperienced color. Not the top of the world should you don’t have it. You can additionally simply sauté a bit onion or eschalots (US: shallots) with the corn.
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Hen 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 creating a selfmade corn inventory, we may get away with utilizing water. However we’re not! Not at the moment. 🙂 (However if you wish to make one thing utilizing a selfmade corn inventory, make this Chilly Corn Soup! It’s wonderful – however it 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 total meal will probably be too salty if you add a correctly seasoned important onto the plate, just like the pictured Shredded Chipotle Mexican Pork and Beans.
Easy methods to 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 will probably be too deep so the rice will cook dinner erratically, with mushy rice on the bottom and uncooked rice on the floor. When you use a pot that’s too massive, then the depth of the rice will probably be too shallow so the liquid will evaporate too quick, leaving your rice undercooked, and certain with some burnt patches.
The pictured pot is 24cm / 9.4″ and it’s a wee bit on the massive aspect, 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 wonderful, however don’t let it go golden. Add the corn (nonetheless frozen is ok) and stir for two minutes. It would thaw and coat the floor within the tasty garlic butter.
If utilizing contemporary corn, it gained’t cook dinner by means of on this time which is ok as a result of it’ll 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 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 be certain the inventory will get sufficient warmth in it to verify the rice truly cooks, quite than sitting in sizzling water simply bloating.
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Prepare dinner the rice for 12 minutes with the lid on. No peeking (this lets steam escape) and no stirring (categorical path to mushy rice!). On the finish of this time, the water must be absorbed by the rice. Tilt the pot and peek shortly 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 vital 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 fantastically fluffy. See FAQ for extra details about this and for extra rice-making rantings, see my Easy methods to cook dinner White Rice publish. 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 generally melted, toss the inexperienced onion by means of. By the point you’ve completed, the butter must be totally melted. Time to serve, whereas it’s sizzling and contemporary! In any case, it’s known as HOT Buttered Corn Rice, not Lukewarm Corn Rice (properly there’s a median recipe title for you!).
Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice will final for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. And it’ll reheat very well, so it is a good one so as to add to your menu planning for an enormous gathering as a result of you can also make it properly upfront then simply reheat till steamy!
I’m additionally considering this is perhaps an excellent 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 probably my crew will make a model with extra greens in it so it will likely be an entire two-in-one aspect dish (ie starch plus greens). Then we will simply add a chunk of protein and we’ll have an entire, 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 best water to rice ratio which is 1.5 : 1 for many kinds of white rice cooked on the range.
When you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this, the rice will probably be mushy.
When you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this and rinses the rice, the rice will probably be VERY mushy (as a result of there’s additionally water within the waterlogged rice).
When 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 (should you purchase rice in packets from grocery shops like I do, you don’t 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 Easy methods to cook dinner White Rice publish. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
When you insist on rinsing the rice (I get it, some habits are unimaginable 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. When you skip this step, the rice will probably be moist and slippery with a tough centre.
When you’re considering 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 sooner? The reply is not 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 by means of correctly is to take it off the range when the outdoors of every grain is completely cooked however the inside continues to be a bit arduous. At this stage, there’s additionally a slick of water on the floor of every rice grain. Then through the resting stage, this layer of water will get absorbed by every rice grain and the residual warmth spreads it by means of to the centre of the grain so it softens and finishes cooking by means of.
By the way in which, should you rinse rice or soak rice, you continue to should relaxation the cooked rice. There isn’t a getting round this step, if you need correctly cooked rice!!
You may make as much as triple the recipe utilizing a big inventory pot. When you attempt to scale up any extra, the depth of the rice will probably be too nice so the rice will cook dinner erratically (mushy).
If tripling or doubling the recipe, remember to convey the liquid as much as a full boil earlier than placing the lid on, and decrease the warmth to medium low quite than low, and cook dinner for 18 to twenty minutes (tilt pot to verify to make sure all of the inventory is absorbed). Count on a little bit of golden crunchy rice on the bottom (truly, it’s my favorite half – chef’s deal with!)
It would serve 4 to five as a aspect dish for an everyday meal. If making it as half of a bigger banquet the place there are different starches (like bread rolls, potato salad, macaroni salad), it’ll simply serve 6 to eight (a big, heaped serving spoon scoop per individual).
Make per the recipe, together with fluffing and stirring by means of butter whereas sizzling. Then let it totally 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
Prepare dinner: 12 minutes
Rice resting: 10 minutes
Complete: 29 minutes
Rice, Sides
Western
Servings4 – 5 as a aspect
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 all the pieces. 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, convey to a simmer (be certain the entire floor is effervescent/ripplling), then put the lid on and switch the warmth all the way down to medium low (or low, in case your range is powerful). (Observe 3)
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Prepare 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 vital, don’t skip it! (Observe 4)
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Toss – Elevate the lid, add the remaining butter, fluff the rice to soften the butter by means of. Add inexperienced onion and toss by means of.
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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 properly. Subsequent finest is medium grain. Brief grain (sushi rice) may even work however the rice is a bit stickier.
No have to rinse rice except you’re involved about cleanliness. Don’t fear, the rice is fluffy (see video proof) as a result of we’re utilizing the best water to rice ratio of 1.5:1. When 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 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 vital to permit the rice to complete cooking and turn out to be fluffy. Learn in publish for extra rantings about why that is so vital! (Within the How To Make part).
Retains for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Reheats extraordinarily properly. Wonderful one to make forward for gatherings!
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