So my good friend Christine from Life on Manitoulin gave me a fresh trout – well she gave me two extremely large, fresh trout. I love fish, but have yet to figure out how to cook trout in a spectacular way.
So I tried a recipe with paprika and cayenne pepper and lemon juice with a little garlic but it came out quite bland. Maybe I under-seasoned it.
Anyway, because it was so bland, I decided I wanted to make saffron rice to eat with it to pump up the flavor in my meal a bit.
But I am lazy, so I didn’t do the entire process of making saffron rice, I just used left over rice and threw some stuff in a pan.
And it ended up being an in-between between saffron rice and fried rice.
I’m letting you know that in advance, because today, I’m leaving you a pretty yummy recipe.
Enjoy – it was really good with the trout – but would be really good with grilled chicken or possibly even steak.
Not-quite Saffron Rice.
Ingredients:
1/2 medium onion, sliced (or chopped if you wish)
1 tsp tumeric powder
1 cup of leftover, cooked rice (mine was one day old)
pinch of salt
black pepper to taste
1/2 cup frozen peas (I used frozen pigeon peas because that’s what I had on hand)
1/2 cup golden raisins (again, what I had on hand – ideally it should be Craisins or Goji Berries)
1/4 cup almond slivers
Method:
Soak raisins in just enough warm water to cover in a bowl. Set aside.
In a large skillet, add a little oil to prevent sticking.
Fry onions until almost clear, stir in saffron, salt & black pepper.
Break up rice with a fork so that the grains are not in one great big lump
Add the loose rice grains to the hot pan and stir until heated through.
Mix well.
Add the frozen peas & stir gently until peas are warmed through.
Add the raisins & water from the previously set aside bowl into the rice. Stir gently and allow the water to evaporate.
Add almonds to the mix and allow to heat through as well.
Taste and add extra salt or black pepper to taste if needed.
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