Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dom's Recipe Challenge & Sunflower Rice

From Williams-Somoma Kids Cooking ~ Scrumptious Recipes for Cooks Ages 9 - 13!  Dom at Belleau's Kitchen is having a recipe challenge, click here for details!  The challenge calls for taking cookbook # 18 off your shelf, turn to a page and cook a recipe.  First I had to select the shelf, I have a serious amount of cookbooks.  Next, from my Williams-Somoma shelf I counted to number 18, and low and behold this is the book, "Kids Cooking."  I laughed until I was beside myself and said "why not, it will be fun."

Then I randomly selected a recipe, and it was Sunflower Rice, how appropriate for Spring!  It was delicious, the sunflower seeds gave the rice a really nice and unexpected nuttiness.  If you wanted to jazz it up some more try adding dried cranberries, carrots, and some green pepper.  I didn't add anything extra, I followed the directions!

This dish went well with the grilled steak and veggies that I served for dinner that evening.  It would also go well with chicken or fish, I thought it was a pretty versatile side-dish!



Below is the recipe as typed from the kid's cookbook!

Ingredients
2-4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup brown rice
2 2/3 cups chicken broth
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup sunflower seed kernels
Salt

1. Put 2 tablespoons of the butter in the medium saucepan.  Set the pan on a burner of your stove, turn the heat on to medium and melt the butter.  Add the rice to the melted butter and stir with the wooden spoon until each grain of rice glistens with butter.  Pour the chicken broth over the rice, stir once. Let the mixture come to a boil.

2. As soon as the mixture starts boiling, turn the heat down to very low.  Put the lid on the saucepan and simmer until the rice is tender and has absorbed all of the broth, about 50 minutes. (To make sure the rice doesn’t burn, start checking after 40 minutes.  Be sure to lift the lid away from you, as the steam inside the pan can burn you.)

3. Turn the heat off.  Remove the saucepan from the stove.  Carefully remove the lid from the pan.  Add the Parmesan cheese and sunflower seeds and stir lightly.

4. Taste the mixture.  If you want a richer dish, add up to 2 tablespoons more butter.  Add enough salt to make the rice taste great to you.  Serve immediately.


One last thing, if you don't Follow Dom at Belleau Kitchen I highly suggest you do!  Not only is he a fabulous cook, he has a fantastic sense of humor!  

23 comments:

  1. this has made me chuckle too!... how brilliant is this challenge that it made you pick such a funny cookbook... I have a couple like this that I thought would also be hysterical to get!... some months it will be mad and others it may be more of a challenge, so thank you for taking part!

    All the best

    Dom x

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  2. Too funny! It must be a good cookbook as the recipe really sounds good!

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  3. This recipe sounds really good - I love brown rice and the sunflower seed addition sounds great.

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  4. Great! Something I might be able to prepare lol!! Sounds delish... Thanks for visiting me, keep those recipes coming!!

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  5. That does seem like a nice way to vary a staple dish. Great idea.

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  6. I love the idea of Dom's challenge but own so many strange cookbooks I'm too scared to!

    Well done - the rice looks great :-)

    Celia

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  7. Oh what fun!!!!
    What a brilliant way to get you trying something new!
    Looks a good recipe too - my daughter will like this one if i subsitute the chicken broth for vegetable.
    Gill x

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  8. What fun challenge that I sould love to try out. Have to wait till I return to my kitchen; I have LOTS of cookbooks that need to be reviewed.
    Rita

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  9. This sounds really good, never heard of this combo. Yum!

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  10. Sounds actually sounds really good! What a fun challenge and so cute the book that happen to be #18 :)

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  11. What a hilarious challenge!
    I'm calling my friend Cookie...we'll walk into our kitchens at the same time and pull one out!
    Your rice sounds yummy :)

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  12. I love the fact that others have childrens' cookbooks on their shelves too! Leave it to Williams and Sonoma to have a chi-chi good recipe for kids to make with brown rice and sunflower seeds! Healthy and good for the sun starved soul!

    Great Random Pick!

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  13. Sounds like a great change...thanks for sharing...

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  14. hey mary...the recipe looks great...and what fun... i may have to jump on board....

    hugs to duke-ster

    have a great weekend
    kary and teddy
    xxx

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  15. I may have to check out that cookbook for my niece. The recipe looks good! I'll go check out his blog and see what else is cooking today!

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  16. What a quick and easy recipe. I love the addition of the crunchy sunflower seeds. Fun challenge I will posting mine this weekend.

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  17. Sounds like a fun challenge! The sunflower rice sounds really yummy. A complete protein too!

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  18. I love the addition of sunflower seeds to the rice. What a fun food challenge!

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  19. the sunflower seeds do sound like a nice addition to the rice, what a great way to change them up a bit. Cheers
    Dennis

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  20. Sounds like fun...got to try this random recipes too.

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  21. mmmm. bbq chicken sounds so great

    :-)
    it's teriyaki tri tip...

    wish you were here...and Duke too

    kary and teddy
    xxx

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  22. Happy birthday to Duke!

    Sunflower rice sounds pretty tasty! I never thought to add that ingredient for a nice crunch. I love all WS cookbooks!

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  23. Well done to you for joining in!! Knowing my luck I'd have got something awful covered in aspic or something lol

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