How To Make Rice-Ah-Roni
Rice-ah-roni is a truly American dish from San Francisco that combines rice & pasta. In this recipe, it is flavored with warm spice blend and chicken broth.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Spice Blend:
- 1½tspkosher salt,plus more as needed
- ⅛tspfreshly ground black pepper
- ⅛tspground coriander
- ⅛tspmustard powder
- ⅛tspcelery salt
- ⅛tsppaprika
- ⅛pinchground turmeric
- ⅛tspcayenne pepper
For Rice:
- 3tbspunsalted butter
- ½cuponions,finely diced
- ⅔cuporzo pasta,uncooked
- 1⅓cupslong grain white rice,uncooked
- 3cupsgood quality chicken broth
- 1tbspparsley,freshly chopped
Instructions
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Mix together salt, pepper, coriander, mustard powder, celery salt, paprika, turmeric, and cayenne pepper in a small bowl.
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Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add diced onion and pasta. Cook and stir for 4 to 6 minutes until onions soften and pasta turns golden brown.
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Stir in spice blend; cook and stir about 30 seconds. Add rice and stir until rice is coated with butter.
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Pour in chicken broth. Bring to a simmer.
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Stir; reduce heat to low. Cover with a tight-fitting lid; cook for 17 minutes.
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Remove from heat; let covered skillet sit for 5 minutes.
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Remove lid and stir in parsley, fluffing rice and breaking up any clumps.
Nutrition
- Calories: 143.92kcal
- Fat: 7.43g
- Saturated Fat: 4.08g
- Trans Fat: 0.23g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.23g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.55g
- Carbohydrates: 14.41g
- Fiber: 0.69g
- Sugar: 2.80g
- Protein: 4.81g
- Cholesterol: 18.86mg
- Sodium: 355.86mg
- Calcium: 12.88mg
- Potassium: 180.34mg
- Iron: 0.52mg
- Vitamin A: 54.45µg
- Vitamin C: 2.11mg
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