Cilantro Lime Rice

Another week night dinner go-to recipe. It’s so easy, yet sooo good! You have got to try this one.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of long grain rice

2 TBSP vegetable oil

1 clove of garlic, minced

1 lime

1 small bunch of cilantro

Method:

Heat up oil in a medium size pot on medium high. Add rice and toast the rice until it’s golden brown. This adds a lot of flavor to the rice and makes it super fluffy.

Add the minced garlic and stir the rice for another minute. You will almost immediately smell the fragrance of the garlic clove. But don’t worry, it will not linger in the rice in the end, just adding a very subtle hint of depth.

Add 2 1/4 cup of water to the pot. while the water is heating up, zest a lime directly into the pot. Use only the green part of the lime, don’t zest the white part, since it will be bitter. Add a dash of salt as well. Give it a good stir to distribute lime zest and salt.

Once water is boiling, lid on and lower heat to low. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Then turn off heat, leave lid on and let the rice sit in the pot and continue steaming for 10 minutes.

In the mean time, cut the lime zested, and finely chop the cilantro leaves and soft stem part.

Lid off the pot, squeeze in the juice of the lime and add chopped cilantro. Fluff the rice with a fork and mix in the cilantro. Dish up and enjoy!