Traditional Recipes – Yellow Rice

250ml rice

1L boiling water

25ml yellow sugar

1 cinnamon stick

5ml salt

10ml turmeric

125ml raisins

12,5ml butter

 

Wash the rice. Add everything except the raisins, sugar and butter to the boiling water. Slowly add the rice and cook fast for 20 minutes. Pour the rice in a strainer. Add the raisins and cinnamon stick. Steam the rice in the strainer over boiling water for 1 hour. Remove the cinnamon. Add the butter and sugar. Serve piping hot.

Low-Fat Basmati Rice Dessert

A low-fat dessert for the health conscious.

INGREDIENTS

125ml Basmati rice

625ml fat-free milk

85ml Castor sugar

3 vanilla pods

1 bay leaf

ground cinnamon

METHOD

Heat the rice, milk, vanilla and bay leave in a saucepan. Stir until the mixture starts to boil. Reduce heat and let it simmer for 30 minutes. The mixture will become thick and soft. Stir often.

Add water if the fluid is cooked away before the rice is soft. When the rice is cooked there should be no fluid left. Cool the mixture, stirring from time to time. Remove the vanilla and bay leaf and dish into separate bowls.  Sprinkle cinnamon over before serving.

Kedgeree

This is a favourite dish served at Highland hunting lodges and in many an Officers’ Mess – breakfast or brunch, it’s filling and delicious. You’ll need:

Melt the butter in a pan, add the haddock and shake over the heat until thoroughly hot. Add the rice and hard-boiled eggs and seasoning. Shake and stir over the heat then add the raw egg and cream – enough to moisten the whole mixture. Reheat and turn out into a serving dish.