Scorching Buttered Corn Rice is a straightforward but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – it goes with all the pieces. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!
I do not know what you’re planning to make for dinner tonight. However no matter it’s, an enormous steamy mound of garlicky, buttery rice with candy pops of corn goes to work with it, and it’ll make your meal even higher than you already envisage it to be!!
And such is the great thing about at the moment’s recipe. It’s a kind of unicorns that simply works with any delicacies and any meals that may do with a starchy facet. A stir fry? Undoubtedly! Lemony Rooster Francese? Oh sure. Firecracker Beef? Oh course! Coq au vin? Attempt to cease me!
It’s tasty sufficient to eat by the spoonful, straight out of the pot however impartial sufficient to work with full flavoured, saucy mains, just like the Mexican Chipotle Pork & Beans pictured under. I additionally see myself topping it with canned tuna, a squiggle of kewpie mayo and dollop of chilli. Scorching Buttered Corn Tuna Rice Bowl! Sounds a lot extra fascinating than tuna and rice. 😂
Components for Scorching Buttered Corn Rice
Right here’s what you should make this buttery, garlicky rice! Inexperienced onion shouldn’t be vital.
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Corn – I exploit frozen corn for comfort so think about how nice it’s with recent corn! Canned corn will work too nevertheless it’s not my first choose because it’s slightly softer so as soon as cooked, it’s a little too gentle for my style.
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White rice – I like to make use of lengthy grain white rice for this dish because the rice stays fluffier as a result of the rice itself is much less sticky than brief grain rice (like sushi rice).
Substitutes: Basmati rice (works simply as effectively, with slightly additional fragrance of flavour), medium grain rice (subsequent finest), sushi rice (works however the rice is slightly stickier).
Don’t use: Jasmine rice (too gentle, requires totally different cooking therapy), brown rice, risotto rice, paella rice, wild rice, quinoa, or any fake rice (eg cauliflower rice), any par-cooked rice (these microwave packets). The recipe shouldn’t be designed for this, it might require tweaking.
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Butter – For buttery goodness! Some is used to cook dinner the corn and rice, then we stir some via on the finish for a great hit of buttery flavour.
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Garlic – 3 complete cloves! Garlic + butter + corn = house run.
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Inexperienced onion – For slightly hit of recent and wonderful inexperienced color. Not the tip of the world in case you don’t have it. You could possibly additionally simply sauté slightly onion or eschalots (US: shallots) with the corn.
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Rooster or vegetable inventory/broth – The cooking liquid. As a result of it’s tastier than water and we’re making a fast recipe right here, so we want the additional serving to hand. If we have been going to the trouble of creating a selfmade corn inventory, we might get away with utilizing water. However we’re not! Not at the moment. 🙂 (However if you wish to make one thing utilizing a selfmade corn inventory, make this Chilly Corn Soup! It’s wonderful – nevertheless it does require extra effort than this recipe.)
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Salt – Just a bit bit (1/4 teaspoon), so the rice has sufficient flavour to eat it by the spoonful straight out of the pot. Simply flippantly salted is finest else your general meal will likely be too salty if you add a correctly seasoned primary onto the plate, just like the pictured Shredded Chipotle Mexican Pork and Beans.
The right way to make Scorching Buttered Corn Rice
Use a small pot or giant saucepan (20 – 22 cm/8 – 9″+). In case your saucepan is just too small, the depth of the rice will likely be too deep so the rice will cook dinner erratically, with mushy rice on the bottom and uncooked rice on the floor. In case you use a pot that’s too giant, then the depth of the rice will likely be too shallow so the liquid will evaporate too quick, leaving your rice undercooked, and sure with some burnt patches.
The pictured pot is 24cm / 9.4″ and it’s a wee bit on the big facet, however OK for knowledgeable rice makers!
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Sauté – Soften the butter over excessive warmth. Add the garlic and stir for 15 seconds till it smells wonderful, however don’t let it go golden. Add the corn (nonetheless frozen is ok) and stir for two minutes. It would thaw and coat the floor within the tasty garlic butter.
If utilizing recent corn, it received’t cook dinner via on this time which is ok as a result of it’s going to steam cook dinner with the rice.
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Coat rice – Add the rice and stir to coat it within the tasty garlic butter flavour.
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Deliver to simmer correctly – Add the inventory and salt. Stir then let the inventory come to a simmer.
⚠️ Be certain that the entire floor is effervescent or rippling, not simply across the edges, earlier than you decrease the warmth and put the lid on. We need to make sure that the inventory will get sufficient warmth in it to ensure the rice truly cooks, quite than sitting in scorching water simply bloating.
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Cook dinner the rice for 12 minutes with the lid on. No peeking (this lets steam escape) and no stirring (categorical path to mushy rice!). On the finish of this time, the water needs to be absorbed by the rice. Tilt the pot and peek shortly to examine.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the the range and depart it to relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid nonetheless on. This step is so vital anytime you cook dinner rice, whether or not plain or fully-loaded! The rice will end cooking and the residual water on the floor of the grains will get absorbed, leaving the rice fantastically fluffy. See FAQ for extra details about this and for extra rice-making rantings, see my The right way to cook dinner White Rice put up. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
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Butter & fluff – Take away the lid and add the butter. Gently fluff the rice. As soon as the butter is generally melted, toss the inexperienced onion via. By the point you’ve completed, the butter needs to be absolutely melted. Time to serve, whereas it’s scorching and recent! In any case, it’s referred to as HOT Buttered Corn Rice, not Lukewarm Corn Rice (effectively there’s a mean recipe title for you!).
Scorching Buttered Corn Rice will final for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. And it’ll reheat very well, so it is a good one so as to add to your menu planning for an enormous gathering as a result of you may make it effectively upfront then simply reheat till steamy!
I’m additionally considering this is perhaps a great one so as to add to the RecipeTin Meals rotation! (That is my meals financial institution the place we make and donate meals to the susceptible). Although presumably my workforce will make a model with extra greens in it so will probably be an entire two-in-one facet dish (ie starch plus greens). Then we are able to simply add a bit of protein and we’ll have an entire, nutritious meal that’s environment friendly to make on a big scale! Should run this previous them. 🙂 – Nagi x
Scorching Buttered Corn Rice FAQ
No, you don’t. You simply want the appropriate water to rice ratio which is 1.5 : 1 for many kinds of white rice cooked on the range.
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this, the rice will likely be mushy.
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this and rinses the rice, the rice will likely be VERY mushy (as a result of there’s additionally water within the waterlogged rice).
In case you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this and rinses the rice and soaks the rice -> 🤯
The one motive to rinse rice is if you’re involved about cleanliness (in case you purchase rice in packets from grocery shops like I do, you do not want to fret about this) or if you’re making a speciality rice recipe like Biryani.
For heaps extra rice making rantings, see my The right way to cook dinner White Rice put up. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
In case you insist on rinsing the rice (I get it, some habits are unimaginable to interrupt) then you have to to cut back the inventory within the recipe by 2 tablespoons, to account for the water logged within the rice.
As a result of throughout this step, the rice will end cooking and the water on the floor of every grain will get absorbed, leaving the rice fluffy. In case you skip this step, the rice will likely be moist and slippery with a tough centre.
In case you’re considering can’t I simply add extra water and cook dinner for longer to I can skip this step so I can get the rice on the desk quicker? The reply is not any! The rice will find yourself mushy as a result of the surface of every rice grain will take up an excessive amount of water and overcook by the point the centre of the rice cooks.
The one solution to cook dinner rice via correctly is to take it off the range when the exterior of every grain is completely cooked however the inside remains to be a bit arduous. At this stage, there’s additionally a slick of water on the floor of every rice grain. Then through the resting stage, this layer of water will get absorbed by every rice grain and the residual warmth spreads it via to the centre of the grain so it softens and finishes cooking via.
By the way in which, in case you rinse rice or soak rice, you continue to need to relaxation the cooked rice. There is no such thing as a getting round this step, if you need correctly cooked rice!!
You can also make as much as triple the recipe utilizing a big inventory pot. In case you attempt to scale up any extra, the depth of the rice will likely be too nice so the rice will cook dinner erratically (mushy).
If tripling or doubling the recipe, make sure to convey the liquid as much as a full boil earlier than placing the lid on, and decrease the warmth to medium low quite than low, and cook dinner for 18 to twenty minutes (tilt pot to examine to make sure all of the inventory is absorbed). Count on a little bit of golden crunchy rice on the bottom (truly, it’s my favorite half – chef’s deal with!)
It would serve 4 to five as a facet dish for a daily meal. If making it as half of a bigger banquet the place there are different starches (like bread rolls, potato salad, macaroni salad), it’s going to simply serve 6 to eight (a big, heaped serving spoon scoop per particular person).
Make per the recipe, together with fluffing and stirring via butter whereas scorching. Then let it absolutely cool, uncovered, earlier than storing in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days, or freezer for 3 months.
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Scorching buttered corn rice
Prep: 7 minutes
Cook dinner: 12 minutes
Rice resting: 10 minutes
Complete: 29 minutes
Rice, Sides
Western
Servings4 – 5 as a facet
Faucet or hover to scale
Recipe video above. Scorching Buttered Corn Rice – a easy but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – goes with all the pieces. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!
Directions
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Sauté – Soften half the butter in a pot over excessive warmth. Add the garlic and stir for 15 seconds. Add the corn and half the salt. Stir for two minutes.
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Deliver to simmer – Add the rice and stir for 30 seconds. Add the inventory and remaining salt. Stir, convey to a simmer (make sure that the entire floor is effervescent/ripplling), then put the lid on and switch the warmth right down to medium low (or low, in case your range is robust). (Word 3)
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Cook dinner for 12 minutes (no peeking, no stirring!). The liquid needs to be absorbed by now – tilt the pot and take a fast peek to examine.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the range and let it relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid on. This step is vital, don’t skip it! (Word 4)
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Toss – Raise the lid, add the remaining butter, fluff the rice to soften the butter via. Add inexperienced onion and toss via.
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Tumble into serving bowl. Serve scorching!
Recipe Notes:
2. Rice – Lengthy grain finest (that is what I exploit), additionally basmati works simply as effectively. Subsequent finest is medium grain. Quick grain (sushi rice) may also work however the rice is a bit stickier.
No have to rinse rice until you’re involved about cleanliness. Don’t fear, the rice is fluffy (see video proof) as a result of we’re utilizing the appropriate water to rice ratio of 1.5:1. In case you can’t shake the behavior, go forward and rinse however cut back the inventory by 2 tablespoons (to account for waterlogged rice).
Don’t use: jasmine rice, brown rice, risotto rice, paella rice, wild rice, black rice, quinoa, or any fake rice (eg cauliflower rice), any par-cooked rice (these microwave packets).
3. Effervescent inventory – Be certain that the entire floor of your liquid is effervescent / rippling, not simply across the edge, to ensure the inventory is scorching sufficient earlier than decreasing the warmth and beginning the timer.
4. Resting rice is vital to permit the rice to complete cooking and grow to be fluffy. Learn in put up for extra rantings about why that is so vital! (Within the How To Make part).
Retains for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Reheats extraordinarily effectively. Wonderful one to make forward for gatherings!
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