Ingredients for Cooking Rice Pilaf

Series Summary

Throwing a dinner party? Cooking for that special someone? Looking for the perfect side dish to go with the perfect entrée?

Cooking rice can sometimes turn into a sticky situation, but not this time. In this free video cooking class, learn how to cook rice pilaf, a great low-fat side dish for any entrée. Our chef will walk you through this rice recipe with step by step instructions, including what ingredients to use, and how to get started cooking. Then he’ll give you the all-important signs to look for, to tell when the rice is perfectly cooked. When it’s time to put the recipe together, he’ll guide you to the plate.

Recapture the joy of cooking with this easy rice recipe.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and today I'm going to show you a basic rice pilaf cooking technique. So this is a technique from scratch receipt that comes out really nice and fluffy and its just really pleasing on the pallet as well. Again just is the basic preparation now if I was going to make a bigger batch I would use more rice and more salt obviously but I'm going to use a half batch so I got a half cup of white basmati rice here which is just a basic white rice. Okay and this is just the raw rice obviously that you know you probably just buy out of the box. Then I got one full cup of chicken stock here. So if we where doing a full cup of rice which is usually enough for two people anyway we would use 2 cups of stock but instead I just got one cup of chicken stock and a half of cup of rice. I got some dice carrots here and some dice onions as well. So we would step through these techniques here in just a second. We got our basic stuff ready to go all the ingredients and we would come right back. "