Rice is Nice

[commodorified]

Heavy pot with lid.

About 15 garlic scapes, washed and chopped to 1" lengths
1/4 cup dried chopped mushrooms, presoaked by covering them with water and giving them 1 minute in the microwave (covering them with boiling water would work too)
1 C golden basmati rice
pinch salt
2 C water
1 T Sunny Paris seasoning or other bouquet garni.
2 T olive oil.

Sautee garlic scapes in olive oil until dark green and just beginning to brown.

Add mushrooms, mix in, sautee together for 3-5 minutes.

Add rice, water, salt, and bouquet garni. Cover, bring to boil, turn off electric burner or reduce gas to minimum.

Let stand 15 minutes, fluff, serve.

Comments

[technoknob]

What is a good substitute for garlic scapes? Green onions, maybe? I'll look for garlic scapes this weekend, but I do not hold out hope that I will find any.

[commodorified]

Green onions would be yummy, I think! With chopped sauteed onion in there as well, if onion-mushroom rice sounds good, or else with some ordinary garlic tossed in.

It's VERY amenable to substitutions as desired.

I had the math I'd write a formula for this: [allium] + [fungi] + [rice] + [herbs]

let A = allium of choice, and so forth. :)

[technoknob]

Thanks! So garlic scapes are in the allium category, then. I'll probably try the various onions and a little garlic solution, see how it turns out. I'm tired of the usual rice dishes we have, and this looks terrific.