Description

Serve this wonderful side dish with your favorite meal. In just a few minutes you will have a dish that everyone enjoys. Vary the taste with chicken stock one time, beef stock the next time and make it vegetarian with vegetable stock.

Ingredients

• 1/3 c. butter
• 1/2 medium yellow onion, finely diced or grated
• 1 1/2 c. long grain white rice
• 3 c. good quality chicken stock (beef or vegetable stock could be used as well)
• salt, to taste
• freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 3 bay leaves
• freshly chopped parsley, for garnish

Steps

1. Melt butter over medium heat in large saucepan; add onion; saute 5-6 minutes; stir in long grain rice; coat in the butter.
2. Pour in remaining ingredients. Cover; bring to boil; reduce heat to low; cook 5 minutes less than what is listed on rice package directions, which should be about 15 minutes.Turn off the heat, but keep it hot on the burner for 10 minutes to steam and to prevent scorching.
3. Fluff rice with fork; remove bay leaves; serve. Garnish with chopped parsley, if desired.