Yellow Rice Recipe
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Even though many people think that yellow rice is a special kind of rice (like brown rice), in reality yellow rice is made from the plain old white rice :) Yellow rice side dish gets its yellow color from the spice turmeric. Turmeric colors the rice and also flavors it, and all you need is a pinch of turmeric to make the whole pot of rice yellow!
Yellow rice looks impressive, but it is extremely easy to make! Just cook the white rice the same way you’d normally do (I always use my rice cooker), and add turmeric to the water before cooking. That’s it! The mystery of the yellow rice has been revealed!
Ingredients:
2 cups of white rice
3 cups of water
1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp salt
Directions:
Put rice in a rice cooker. Pour oil over it and sprinkle with turmeric. Stir with a spoon until all the rice is yellow and coated with oil.
Add water. Press the “Cook” button on the rice cooker.
Note: you don’t have to use the rice cooker to make yellow rice. You can use the conventional method of cooking rice on the stove. Just coat the rice with oil and turmeric, add water and cook as usual :)
looks great and it’s so easy! I really like the taste tumeric too.
this looks so comforting… i love it! thanks for sharing:)
It looks great! I make yellow rice as well with saffron. It looks very good especially when I have guests.
Beautiful bright yellow colour. I love adding a pinch of turmeric to rice too.
I love how simple you’ve made this – now I have no excuse not to try it!
I was watching a Asian Indian cooking show 3 weeks ago. They use yellow rice a lot in their side dishes, but they are big into Jasmine as part of that recipe. I LOVE yellow rice!
I love this as a side dish! It looks great, and turmeric is so good for you too.
Yummie, I love colorful food and this rice looks great dressed in yellow :-) Pretty and healthy!
I’ve often seen yellow rice made with saffron, but I’m not a real big fan of the flavor, so I like your method much better. Good idea!