Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Rice Pilaf

Rice Pilaf.

You can cook Rice Pilaf using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Rice Pilaf

1. It's 1 tbsp. of unsalted butter.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp. of olive oil.
3. It's 1 of small carrot, peeled and diced.
4. Prepare 1 of small stalk celery, diced.
5. You need 1/4 of yellow onion.
6. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
7. You need 1 cup of long grain rice.
8. You need 1 3/4 cup of unsalted chicken or veggie broth.
9. You need 1/4 tsp. of each salt, pepper, salt-free all purpose seasoning.
10. You need 1/8 tsp. of each poultry seasoning, ground sage.

Rice Pilaf step by step

1. Heat the butter and oil in a medium pot with a tight fitting lid over medium heat. Once its melted and hot, add the carrots, celery and onion with a large pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, until everything has softened up...about 7-10 minutes. Then add the garlic and cook a minute or two more, until fragrant. Stir in the rice and seasonings and increase the heat to med-high..
2. Stir often, so the rice toasts evenly for about 3 or so minutes. Then stir in the broth and place on the lid. Once it starts to come to a low boil, which should be fairly quickly, decrease the heat to low and let simmer undisturbed for 13-15 minutes, or until the liquid has been absorbed. Then turn off the heat and keep the lid on an additional 5 minutes. Then fluff with a fork and serve..