Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Royal® Basmati Rice (cooked as per Easy-to-Make Basmati Rice)
- 2 cups water
- ½ white or yellow onion
- 1 tablespoon Grapeola® Grape Seed Oil or olive oil
- A handful of chopped fresh parsley or 1 teaspoon dried parsley (or your favorite herb: basil, thyme, tarragon)
- 4 tablespoons crumbled Feta cheese
- Salt & black pepper to taste
- 2-3 tablespoons pine nuts or slivered almonds
Instructions
- Prepare Royal Basmati Rice. This can be done up to one day ahead. While the rice cooks, dice the onion and mince the fresh parsley.
- Heat a well-dried frying pan over low heat and add the oil. Warm for 30 seconds and add onions. Increase heat to medium. Sauté the onions for 2-3 minutes, stirring often, until they are translucent.
- Gently stir in the cooked rice, using a fork to break apart the grains if needed. Stir to combine the rice and onions. Sauté for 3 minutes.
- Mix in parsley, salt, pepper and Feta cheese. Cook rice for 3 minutes so the flavors blend. Stir occasionally to prevent the rice and cheese from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
- When the ingredients are well mixed and hot, turn off the heat. Place rice in a serving dish and garnish with pine nuts. Sprinkle more parsley over the dish, if you like. Serve hot as a light lunch or part of a larger meal.