Rice With Onion Mashkoul


A good and simple flavoured gulf arabian rice dish which is standard accompaniment to most gulf meals. Good with recipe #372093 or recipe #418079 among others. This dish may be made into yellow rice by adding 3/4 tsp turmeric for colour and is also very good with a chicken stock cube added to the water for more flavour. I recently made this with homemade stock and added some pine nuts to the onions near the end of cooking time until they were golden, it was really tasty. Modified from, the complete middle east cookbook by tess mallos.

Steps


Preheat oven to 350f.
Pick over rice and wash gently with cold water until water runs clear.
Drain.
Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a large pot , add rice and salt and return to the boil , stirring occasionally to keep the grains separate.
Boil for 8 minutes , the strain in a large sieve.
Heat ghee or butter in a heavy pan and add onion.
Fry gently until transparent , increase heat and fry until crisp and light coloured.
Grease a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
Add half the onion to the pan and add strained rice on top and toss with a fork to mix onion through rice.
Sprinkle the rest of the onion on top of rice.
Cover well with aluminum foil and place in oven until done.
Approximately 15 minutes.
Fluff up with a fork and serve pilled on a plater.

Ingredients


basmati rice, cold water, salt, onion, ghee