Scorching Buttered Corn Rice is an easy but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – it goes with every part. Make tons – everybody will go in for seconds!
I don’t 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 fantastic thing about right this 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 Hen 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 attention-grabbing than tuna and rice. 😂
Components for Scorching Buttered Corn Rice
Right here’s what you could make this buttery, garlicky rice! Inexperienced onion isn’t crucial.
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Corn – I exploit frozen corn for comfort so think about how nice it’s with recent corn!
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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 quick grain rice (like sushi rice).
Substitutes: Basmati rice (works simply as nicely, with a bit additional fragrance of flavour), medium grain rice (subsequent finest), sushi rice (works however the rice is a bit stickier).
Don’t use: Jasmine rice (too tender, requires totally different cooking remedy), 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 isn’t designed for this, it will require tweaking.
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Butter – For buttery goodness! Some is used to cook dinner the corn and rice, then we stir some by way of on the finish for a superb hit of buttery flavour.
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Garlic – 3 entire cloves! Garlic + butter + corn = house run.
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Inexperienced onion – For a bit hit of recent and wonderful inexperienced color. Not the tip of the world in case you don’t have it. You would additionally simply sauté a bit onion or eschalots (US: shallots) with the corn.
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Hen 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’d like the additional serving to hand. If we had been going to the hassle of creating a home made corn inventory, we might get away with utilizing water. However we’re not! Not right this moment. 🙂 (However if you wish to make one thing utilizing a home made corn inventory, make this Chilly Corn Soup! It’s superb – but it surely 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 frivolously salted is finest else your total meal will likely be too salty once you add a correctly seasoned essential onto the plate, just like the pictured Shredded Chipotle Mexican Pork and Beans.
Easy methods 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 inconsistently, with mushy rice on the bottom and uncooked rice on the floor. When 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 skilled rice makers!
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Sauté – Soften the butter over excessive warmth. Add the garlic and stir for 15 seconds till it smells superb, however don’t let it go golden. Add the corn (nonetheless frozen is okay) and stir for two minutes. It is going to thaw and coat the floor within the tasty garlic butter.
If utilizing recent corn, it gained’t cook dinner by way of on this time which is okay as a result of it should 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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Carry to simmer correctly – Add the inventory and salt. Stir then let the inventory come to a simmer.
⚠️ Ensure 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 wish to be certain the inventory will get sufficient warmth in it to verify the rice truly cooks, somewhat 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 (specific path to mushy rice!). On the finish of this time, the water ought to be absorbed by the rice. Tilt the pot and peek rapidly 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 essential 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 superbly fluffy. See FAQ for extra details about this and for extra rice-making rantings, see my Easy methods to cook dinner White Rice publish. 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 usually melted, toss the inexperienced onion by way of. By the point you’ve completed, the butter ought to be absolutely melted. Time to serve, whereas it’s scorching and recent! In any case, it’s known as HOT Buttered Corn Rice, not Lukewarm Corn Rice (nicely there’s a mean recipe identify 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 can also make it nicely prematurely then simply reheat till steamy!
I’m additionally considering this may be a superb 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 weak). 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 suitable water to rice ratio which is 1.5 : 1 for many forms of white rice cooked on the range.
When you see a recipe that makes use of greater than this, the rice will likely be mushy.
When 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).
When 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 don’t want to fret about this) or if you’re making a speciality rice recipe like Biryani.
For tons extra rice making rantings, see my Easy methods to cook dinner White Rice publish. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂
When you insist on rinsing the rice (I get it, some habits are unattainable to interrupt) then you’ll need to scale 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. When you skip this step, the rice will likely be moist and slippery with a tough centre.
When 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 isn’t any! The rice will find yourself mushy as a result of the skin of every rice grain will soak up an excessive amount of water and overcook by the point the centre of the rice cooks.
The one solution to cook dinner rice by way of correctly is to take it off the range when the outdoors of every grain is completely cooked however the inside remains to be a bit laborious. At this stage, there’s additionally a slick of water on the floor of every rice grain. Then in the course of the resting stage, this layer of water will get absorbed by every rice grain and the residual warmth spreads it by way of to the centre of the grain so it softens and finishes cooking by way of.
By the best way, 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’d like correctly cooked rice!!
You may make as much as triple the recipe utilizing a big inventory pot. When you attempt to scale up any extra, the depth of the rice will likely be too nice so the rice will cook dinner inconsistently (mushy).
If tripling or doubling the recipe, make sure to carry the liquid as much as a full boil earlier than placing the lid on, and decrease the warmth to medium low somewhat 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 is going to serve 4 to five as a facet dish for an everyday meal. If making it as half of a bigger banquet the place there are different starches (like bread rolls, potato salad, macaroni salad), it should simply serve 6 to eight (a big, heaped serving spoon scoop per particular person).
Make per the recipe, together with fluffing and stirring by way of 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 every part. Make tons – 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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Carry to simmer – Add the rice and stir for 30 seconds. Add the inventory and remaining salt. Stir, carry to a simmer (be certain 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 powerful). (Be aware 3)
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Cook dinner for 12 minutes (no peeking, no stirring!). The liquid ought 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! (Be aware 4)
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Toss – Carry the lid, add the remaining butter, fluff the rice to soften the butter by way of. Add inexperienced onion and toss by way of.
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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 nicely. Subsequent finest is medium grain. Brief grain (sushi rice) may even work however the rice is a bit stickier.
No must 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 suitable water to rice ratio of 1.5:1. When 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 – Ensure that the entire floor of your liquid is effervescent / rippling, not simply across the edge, to verify 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 turn out to be fluffy. Learn in publish for extra rantings about why that is so essential! (Within the How To Make part).
Retains for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Reheats extraordinarily nicely. Wonderful one to make forward for gatherings!
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