Sizzling buttered corn rice – RecipeTin Eats


Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice is an easy but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – it goes with every thing. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!

Pot of Hot Buttered Corn Rice

I don’t know what you’re planning to make for dinner tonight. However no matter it’s, a giant 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 in the present day’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? Positively! 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 beneath. I additionally see myself topping it with canned tuna, a squiggle of kewpie mayo and dollop of chilli. Sizzling Buttered Corn Tuna Rice Bowl! Sounds a lot extra fascinating than tuna and rice. 😂

Hot Buttered Corn Rice with Chipotle Pulled Pork and Beans

Elements for Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice

Right here’s what it’s essential make this buttery, garlicky rice! Inexperienced onion shouldn’t be important.

  • Corn – I take advantage of frozen corn for comfort so think about how nice it’s with contemporary corn! Canned corn will work too however it’s not my first decide because it’s just a little softer so as soon as cooked, it’s a little too delicate for my style.

  • 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 effectively, with just a little additional fragrance of flavour), medium grain rice (subsequent finest), sushi rice (works however the rice is just a little stickier).

    Don’t use: Jasmine rice (too delicate, requires completely 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 will require tweaking.

  • Butter – For buttery goodness! Some is used to cook dinner the corn and rice, then we stir some by means of on the finish for a great hit of buttery flavour.

  • Garlic – 3 entire cloves! Garlic + butter + corn = dwelling run.

  • Inexperienced onion – For just a little hit of contemporary and beautiful inexperienced color. Not the top of the world in the event you don’t have it. You possibly can additionally simply sauté just a little onion or eschalots (US: shallots) with the corn.

  • 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 may get away with utilizing water. However we’re not! Not in the present day. 🙂 (However if you wish to make one thing utilizing a home made corn inventory, make this Chilly Corn Soup! It’s superb – however it does require extra effort than this recipe.)

  • 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 calmly salted is finest else your total meal can be too salty while you add a correctly seasoned major onto the plate, just like the pictured Shredded Chipotle Mexican Pork and Beans.

Find out how to make Sizzling 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 can be too deep so the rice will cook dinner inconsistently, with mushy rice on the bottom and uncooked rice on the floor. If you happen to use a pot that’s too giant, then the depth of the rice can 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 massive facet, however OK for knowledgeable rice makers!

  1. 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 can thaw and coat the floor within the tasty garlic butter.

    If utilizing contemporary corn, it received’t cook dinner by means of on this time which is okay as a result of it is going to steam cook dinner with the rice.

  2. Coat rice – Add the rice and stir to coat it within the tasty garlic butter flavour.

  1. Convey 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 ensure that the inventory will get sufficient warmth in it to verify the rice truly cooks, moderately than sitting in scorching water simply bloating.

  2. 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 needs to be absorbed by the rice. Tilt the pot and peek rapidly to examine.

  1. Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the the range and go away it to relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid nonetheless on. This step is so necessary 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 Find out how to cook dinner White Rice submit. Writing that was so therapeutic!😂

  2. 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 means of. By the point you’ve completed, the butter needs to be absolutely melted. Time to serve, whereas it’s scorching and contemporary! 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!).

    Bowl of Hot Buttered Corn Rice

Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice will final for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. And it’ll reheat rather well, so this can be a good one so as to add to your menu planning for a giant gathering as a result of you can also make it effectively prematurely then simply reheat till steamy!

I’m additionally pondering 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 probably my crew 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 will simply add a chunk 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

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Bowl of Hot Buttered Corn Rice

Sizzling buttered corn rice

Servings4 – 5 as a facet

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Recipe video above. Sizzling Buttered Corn Rice – a easy but scrumptious improve from plain steamed rice. Serve with any delicacies, any dish – goes with every thing. Make heaps – everybody will go in for seconds!

Directions

  • 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.

  • Convey to simmer – Add the rice and stir for 30 seconds. Add the inventory and remaining salt. Stir, convey to a simmer (ensure 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 powerful). (Be aware 3)

  • 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.

  • Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away the pot from the range and let it relaxation for 10 minutes with the lid on. This step is essential, don’t skip it! (Be aware 4)

  • Toss – Raise the lid, add the remaining butter, fluff the rice to soften the butter by means of. Add inexperienced onion and toss by means of.

  • Tumble into serving bowl. Serve scorching!

Recipe Notes:

1. Frozen corn – Scrumptious with frozen corn so think about how nice it’s with contemporary! The identical cooking occasions applies to both. Recipe will work with canned corn too however it’s not fairly pretty much as good (it’s wetter, so doesn’t sauté as effectively and will get overly delicate when cooked, I discover). Use one 400g/14oz can, drained.
2. Rice – Lengthy grain finest (that is what I take advantage of), additionally basmati works simply as effectively. Subsequent finest is medium grain. Quick grain (sushi rice) will even work however the rice is a bit stickier.
 No have to rinse rice except 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. If you happen to can’t shake the behavior, go forward and rinse however scale 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 essential to permit the rice to complete cooking and grow to be fluffy. Learn in submit for extra rantings about why that is so necessary! (Within the How To Make part).
Retains for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer. Reheats extraordinarily effectively. Glorious one to make forward for gatherings!

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