Persian Rice

5 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (475 ml) basmati rice
  • 1 flour tortilla
  • olive oil
  • butter or margarine
  • 1 moistened terry cloth kitchen towel

Directions

  1. 1
    Pour some olive oil in a small stew pot.
  2. 2
    Place tortilla on bottom of oiled pot.
  3. 3
    In another pot, start water boiling for rice.
  4. 4
    Place rice in pot and parboil in rapidly boiling water for 5 minutes while stirring.
  5. 5
    Put rice in collander rinse and strain.
  6. 6
    Place wet rice on flour tortilla in pyramid fashion.
  7. 7
    Make several evenly spaced holes in rice pyramid and mold little pieces of cold butter with your fingers and fill the holes.
  8. 8
    Cover pot with dry kitchen towel.
  9. 9
    Place lid on top.
  10. 10
    Cook on very low heat 20 min.

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