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Brown Rice Recipes

Brown Rice Recipes - Healthy and Delicious - Easy To Cook

A Mediterranean Brown Rice Recipe

We absolutely love experimenting with brown rice recipes. It's such a versatile food, with its mild, nutty flavour, and the health benefits from eating it regularily are legendary.
It contains far more nutrients than white rice because, in the milling process, only the outside husk(bran)is removed, whereas all of the husk layers and the germ are removed from the white, leaving mainly starch and little nutrient.
Brown rice is a great source of B vitamins and minerals, helps prevent different cancers, aids in the lowering of cholestrol, the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is full of healthy heart fibre.....and much more.
Why not include this in your own Mediterranean diet it's healthy and full of goodness.
Eat well - feel full and satisfied and lose those excess pounds without undue effort.

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Brown Rice Recipes Easy Cooking Method

Ingredients

Brown rice (whichever type you prefer) short or long grain
Water – use at least four cups of water for every one cup of rice(or one part rice to 4 parts water)
Salt – to taste

Or if you are short of time why not use a rice cooker.

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Method

Rinse rice in a strainer under cold running water for a minute, swirling the rice around with your hand.
Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a large pot over high heat.
When water comes to the boil, add the drained rice, stir it once.
Reduce the heat to medium and boil, uncovered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
After 30 minutes, pour the rice into the strainer over the sink.
Let the rice drain for 10 seconds, until most of the water has gone, then return it to the pot, off the heat.
Immediately cover the pot with a tight-fitting lid and put it to one side to allow the rice to steam for 10 minutes. (If your pot lid isn’t extremely tight, place a piece of aluminum foil or baking parchment over the pot then place the lid on top of it. This makes a tight seal and allows the rice to steam and absorb any liquid that is left.)
After ten minutes, uncover rice, fluff up with a fork, and season with salt to taste.
Use straight away or you can store it in a plastic container in the fridge and use whenever you like...it keeps for about 5 days.

Our delicious Mediterranean Brown Rice Recipe serves 4 people as a main course or more as an accompaniment.

Mediterranean Brown Rice Recipe Ingredients

A good tablespoon extra virgen olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 medium red bell pepper, cut into smallish dice
3 fat cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 small zucchini/courgette, cut into smallish dice
5 medium mushrooms, washed and roughly chopped
1/2 vegetable or chicken stock cube, well crumbled
A handfull of coriander, chopped
1lb/500g cooked brown rice
Salt and ground black pepper to taste
Freshly grated parmesan, optional

Method

In a large frying pan, heat the olive oil over a medium to high heat.
Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2-3 minutes until translucent, then add the red pepper.
Continue cooking and stirring for 3 more minutes, turn down the heat to medium and add the garlic and the crumbled stock cube. Stir well while cooking for another 3 minutes.
Add the courgette and mushrooms turn up the heat again to medium/high, keep stirring for another 3-4 minutes.
Pour in the cooked brown rice, a little seasoning and most of the coriander.
Mix well together...you may need to turn the heat down if things start to stick.
Keep stirring until the rice is really hot and all of the ingredients are evenly mixed together.
Check for seasoning.
Pile the rice onto a large serving platter and sprinkle with the remaining coriander and a little grated parmesan if desired.