Orange Rind Rice Recipes

ORANGE RICE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, saute celery in butter until tender. Add the remaining ingredients; mix well. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the rice is tender.

PERSIAN ORANGE RICE WITH ALMONDS

Steps:

• Peel and chop oranges. Remove as much of white as possible from inside of rind by scraping gently with a sharp knife. Sliver rind as thinly as possible. Blanch rind and set aside. In a blender puree oranges, garlic, ginger, saffron, chiles, curry powder, cinnamon, dill, orange juice, sugar, and anise. In a large, heavy skillet or casserole with a tight-fitting lid, melt butter. Gently saute orange rind for 1 minute. Adjust heat to keep butter from burning. Pour in contents of blender and broth and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add rice and stir. Smooth top of rice and cook until done. Stir gently to fluff; add almonds, pistachios, and parsley, and fluff again. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pile into a serving dish and serve hot.

ORANGE-FLAVORED RICE

Steps:

• Place a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the olive oil and rice, and cook until the rice smells toasty, about 3 minutes. Add the chicken stock and half of the orange zest and juice. Bring to a boil, stir once more, then cover and reduce the heat to low. Simmer until tender and the liquid has been absorbed, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand, still covered, for 5 minutes. Stir the remaining orange zest and juice into the rice, and garnish with the green onions.

ORANGE RICE

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the orange zest, orange juice, and butter. Bring to a boil, and stir in rice. Cover, and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Mix in mandarin orange segments, and serve immediately.

ORANGE RICE RECIPE WITH CRANBERRIES

Steps:

• Cook the rice according to the directions on the box.
• In a frying pan, brown the onion.
• Lower the heat and add the orange juice, orange zest, ginger, and cranberries to the onion. Cook for 30 seconds.
• Add the cooked rice the frying pan and cook until the excess liquid from the frying pan has been cooked off, approximately 1 -2 minutes.
• Serve while warm.

ORANGE RICE PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix the rice with the milk, honey and orange rind in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Reduce the heat, cover with a tight-fitting lid and simmer very gently for 1 ¼ hours, stirring regularly.
• Remove the lid and continue cooking and stirring for 15-20 minutes until the rice is creamy.
• Pour in the cream and simmer for 5-8 minutes longer.
• Serve the rice sprinkled with chopped pistachios.

ORANGE RICE PILAF

Steps:

• In a 3-qt. saucepan, saute celery, onion and orange zest in butter until tender but not brown. Add salt. Combine orange juice and water; add to celery mixture. Bring to a boil. Stir in the rice. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork.

ORANGE-CINNAMON RICE PUDDING

Steps:

• Combine the orange peel, 2 cups water, the butter and a pinch of salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the rice and return to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cook, shaking the pan occasionally, until the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes.
• Bring the milk, granulated sugar, cinnamon sticks and vanilla to a low boil in another saucepan. Add the rice and simmer over medium-low heat, stirring, until the liquid is mostly absorbed, about 15 minutes. Stir in the grated orange zest and 1/4 cup mascarpone.
• Transfer the rice pudding to a large bowl and let cool, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold and set, about 2 hours.
• Beat the remaining 1/4 cup mascarpone and the confectioners' sugar in a bowl. Remove the cinnamon sticks and orange peel from the pudding. Serve topped with the mascarpone and cinnamon.

CREAMY ORANGE RICE PUDDING

Steps:

• Remove zest from orange using the smallest holes on a box grater, and set aside. Cut ends off orange, and remove peel, pith, and outer membranes, following the curve of the fruit with a paring knife. Lift sections away from membranes, and set aside. Squeeze juice from membranes over sections before discarding.
• Place the Arborio rice, milk, reserved orange zest, lemon zest, vanilla bean and seeds, salt, and sugar in a medium saucepan, and bring to a simmer over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the rice is tender and most but not all of the liquid has been absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes. Stir in the heavy cream. Remove the vanilla bean, and serve the pudding in small bowls garnished with orange sections.

ORANGE RICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• Rinse the rice under cold water. Drain, and cook rice in the milk over medium-low heat for about 15 minutes, or until the rice has absorbed all the milk. Remove from heat and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks on high speed until they are pale yellow and doubled in volume. Add the egg yolks to the butter mixture, blending well, and then add this to the rice. Add the orange zest and the raisins.
• In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites to stiff peak stage. Gently fold the whites into the rice mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 50 minutes or until the top of the cake is golden brown and puffed up. Cool on a wire rack for at least 20 minutes before turning out. Cool completely. Serve chilled.

SWEET RICE WITH ORANGE RIND

Steps:

• Wash the rice in several changes of water and drain.
• Put in bowl with 5 cups water and soak for 1 hour.
• Drain in a sieve set over a bowl.
• Peel carrots & cut into 1/8" diagonal slices, then slice lengthwise into 1/8" julienne strips.
• Melt butter in wide, flame & oven-proof 3-quart pot with tight-fitting lid over medium flame.
• Add carrots & stir for 5 minute.
• Remove carrots with slotted spoon & set aside. Put pot aside as well.
• Cut orange peel into 2" by 1/8"strips & put in pot with 4 cups water.
• Bring to a rolling boil then immediately invert the pot into a colander set in the sink & rinse under cold water.
• Return the peel & 4 cups water back into the same pot and repeat the blanching process a second time, draining & rinsing as before.
• In a heavy saucepan, combine the peel, sugar, almonds & saffron & 1/2 cup water.
• Bring to a boil, reduce & simmer gently for 30 min., stirring often.
• Add carrots & raisins & simmer 5 minute being careful not to burn. The mixture should be thick & syrupy. Leave in a warm place.
• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Return pot with butter to medium heat & add drained rice.
• Stir & fry for 5 min., reducing heat if it sticks.
• Add 2 2/3 c water & the salt.
• Stir gently & cook until the water has evaporated.
• Quickly spread the orange peel mixture over the rice, cover tightly & place in oven for 25 minute.
• Stir the rice gently to mix before serving.