Buttery Steamed Rice with Green Onion
A recipe for fluffy, fragrant, buttery rice! Rice steamed in butter with green onion is a very tasty, wholesome, simple, quick-cooking dish. This side works beautifully for both lunch and dinner.
Pirko Rita
Recipe author
Buttery Steamed Rice with Green Onion
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 6 %
2 g
Fats 21 %
7 g
Carbohydrates 73 %
24 g
168 kcal
GI:
4
/
96
/
0
- Gather all the ingredients and equipment for this fragrant buttered rice. Use a heavy-bottomed pot. First, rinse the long-grain rice thoroughly under cool running water several times, until the water runs clear — this keeps the rice from clumping later. Put the rinsed rice in the pot, add a pat of butter, and set a peeled onion in the center. Bring water to a boil separately, then mix it with salt. Pour the salted boiling water over the rice so the liquid covers the grains by about 1/2 inch (1–1.5 cm). Using boiling water keeps the grains whole; cold water would make them mushy. Steam the rice over the lowest heat until the water has completely evaporated. Then turn off the heat and let the rice sit, covered, for 15 minutes. Serve it hot, either on its own or as a side for seafood or meat. I finish mine with green onion. Rice is a wholesome staple across China and Asia. It comes polished or unpolished, and there are countless varieties — basmati, jasmine, wild rice, arborio, and many more — each delicious in its own way and suited to particular dishes. These grains go into a huge range of dishes: pilaf, risotto, paella, soups, casseroles, and steamed rice like this. It's nourishing and easy to digest, ideal for anyone eating clean, watching their diet, or who simply can't do without it. Steamed rice is best cooked over low heat in an enameled pot with a tight lid — much like steaming, so the nutrients and vitamins stay in the grains rather than leaching into the cooking water as they would with ordinary boiling.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Raw wild rice - 353 kcal/100g
- Brown raw rice - 360 kcal/100g
- Boiled brown rice - 119 kcal/100g
- White fortified raw rice - 363 kcal/100g
- White fortified boiled rice - 109 kcal/100g
- White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369 kcal/100g
- Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106 kcal/100g
- Instant dry rice - 374 kcal/100g
- Instant rice, ready to eat - 109 kcal/100g
- Fig - 344 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Green onion - 19 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
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