Rice With Pine Nuts And Pistachios Recipes

RICE WITH PISTACHIOS

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a saucepan and add onion and garlic. Cook briefly, stirring, until wilted. Add nuts and rice and stir to blend.
• Add broth, salt and pepper, bay leaf and parsley sprigs and stir to blend. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for exactly 17 minutes.
• Uncover rice and remove bay leaf and parsley. Stir in the remaining tablespoon of butter with a fork.

RICE WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan.
• Add onion and sauté until translucent.
• Add cooked rice, pine nuts, lemon juice, dill, mint, salt, and pepper.
• Heat thoroughly.

RICE WITH PINE NUTS AND PISTACHIOS

Steps:

• Rinse the rice under cold water in a colander. Drain. In a saucepan, over high heat, bring the chicken stock, water, 1 T of the butter and 1/2 t of the salt to a boil. Stir in the rice and cover tightly, simmer over very low heat for about 20 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the grains have absorbed all of the liquid.
• In another skillet over medium heat, melt the remaining 2 T of butter. Stir in the pistachios and pine nuts and saute until they are a light golden color. It doesn't take long, make sure you don't burn them! Remove the skillet from the heat.
• Put the cooked rice in a serving bowl and fluff it with a fork. Scrape the nuts over the rice and toss gently. Sprinkle the rice with the mace, if desired.

RICE WITH TOASTED PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Spread pine nuts on baking sheet and bake in oven set at 350 degrees until golden brown. Melt butter in saucepan. Add onion and saute until softened. Add rice and stir until coated with butter. Add water, bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat. Continue to cook until water absorbs and rice is light and fluffy, about 20 minutes. Toss in pine nuts and serve.

RICE WITH MUSHROOMS AND PISTACHIOS

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a saucepan and add the onions. Cook briefly, stirring, until wilted. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring, about 2 minutes.
• Add the nuts and rice and stir to blend. Add the broth, salt and pepper and stir. Cover and simmer exactly 17 minutes.
• Uncover and stir in the remaining butter.

RICE WITH MUSHROOMS AND PISTACHIOS

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a saucepan and add onions. Cook briefly, stirring, until wilted. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring, about 2 minutes.
• Add nuts and rice and stir to blend. Add broth, salt and pepper and stir. Cover and simmer exactly 17 minutes. Uncover and stir in the remaining 1 tablespoon butter.

LEMON AND PINE-NUT RICE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Add rice; season with salt and pepper, and return to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until rice is tender and has absorbed all liquid, 15 to 17 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, 5 minutes.
• Fluff rice gently with a fork, then toss with pine nuts, oil, and lemon zest and juice. Season with salt and pepper, and serve.

RICE WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Place pine nuts in skillet and cook, stirring often, until lightly browned. Remove from heat.
• Heat half the butter in saucepan and add onion and garlic. Cook, stirring, until onion is wilted. Add rice and stir. Add pine nuts and water and bring to boil. Cover closely and let simmer exactly 17 minutes.
• Uncover, fluff the rice with fork and stir in remaining butter.

RICE WITH PINE NUTS AND CILANTRO

Steps:

• In a dry small heavy saucepan toast pine nuts over moderate heat, stirring, until golden, about 5 minutes, and transfer to a small bowl. Finely chop cilantro and reserve 1/4 cup for garnish. Mince garlic. In pan cook rice in oil with garlic and remaining cilantro over moderate heat, stirring, 3 minutes and add water and salt. Bring mixture to a boil and cook, covered, over low heat 15 minutes, or until water is absorbed and rice is tender. Remove pan from heat and let rice stand, covered, 5 minutes.
• Serve rice sprinkled with pine nuts and reserved cilantro.

APRICOT AND PISTACHIO BAKED RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Wash rice in 6 changes of cold water in a large bowl until water is almost clear. Drain in a large sieve.
• Bring 6 cups water and salt to a boil in a 4-quart heavy ovenproof pot with a tight-fitting lid, then stir in rice and cook, uncovered, 6 minutes (rice will still be firm). Drain in sieve.
• Heat oil in dried pot over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then add rice, stirring until well coated, and remove from heat. Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Bake, tightly covered, in middle of oven until rice is tender, about 18 minutes, then fluff with a fork.

PISTACHIO PILAU RICE

Steps:

• Fry the onion in the oil in a large frying pan or saucepan until softened. Stir in the turmeric, then the rice, and keep stirring until the grains are golden.
• Pour in the hot stock, bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover and cook for 15 mins until the rice is tender. Remove from the heat and stir through the spring onions, pistachios and some seasoning before serving hot, or allowing to cool.

PESTO RICE WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Cook the rice in the hot water, simmering over a low heat in a covered pan for around 20 minutes, until all the water has been absorbed.
• When the rice is fully cooked, remove from the heat.
• Add the pesto sauce, pine nuts and parmesan cheese. Stir to mix well.
• If the rice has had a chance to cool at all, you may wish to reheat it at this point- the rice should be hot enough for the mozzarella to melt slightly.
• Serve onto plates and top with the grated mozzarella if desired.
• Enjoy!

RICE WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a heavy saucepan and add the onions and pine nuts. Cook, stirring, until wilted. Add the rice, water, thyme, bay leaf and salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil, stirring, making sure there are no lumps in the rice. Cover with a close-fitting lid and place in the oven.
• Bake for 17 minutes, remove the cover and discard the thyme and bay leaf. Using a fork, stir in the remaining butter and blend well.

GARLIC RICE WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Cook peppers, pine nuts, and garlic in butter in large skillet over medium-high heat until light brown.
• Add rice and parsley; stir until thoroughly heated.

RICE PILAF WITH PISTACHIOS AND GOLDEN RAISINS

Steps:

• In a small heavy saucepan cook the onion with the turmeric and the cardamom in 1 tablespoon of the butter over moderately low heat, stirring, until the onion is softened. Add the rice and cook it, stirring, until it is coated with the butter. Add the broth, bring the liquid to a boil, covered, and simmer the mixture for 17 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. Stir in the pistachios, the raisins, the scallion greens, the remaining 1/2 tablespoon butter, and salt and pepper to taste.

PERSIAN RICE WITH PISTACHIOS AND DILL

Steps:

• Rinse rice in several changes of cold water in a large bowl until water runs clear. Drain in a large sieve.
• Bring water and salt to a boil in a 6-quart heavy pot and parboil rice, uncovered, 5 minutes. Drain in large sieve.
• Melt butter in bottom of cleaned pot and spoon rice over it, alternating with sprinklings of dill and pistachios and mounding loosely, ending with rice. Make 5 or 6 holes in rice to bottom of pot with round handle of a wooden spoon, then cover pot with a kitchen towel and a heavy lid. Fold edges of towel up over lid (to keep towel from burning) and cook rice, undisturbed, over moderately low heat until tender and a crust forms on bottom, 30 to 35 minutes.
• Spoon loose rice onto a platter and dip bottom of pan in a large bowl of cold water 30 seconds to loosen tah-dig (the rice crust on the bottom). Remove tah-dig with a large spoon and serve in a separate bowl or over loose rice.