The Best Way to Make Rice

Name: The Best Way to Make Rice
Yield: Six to eight servings.
Ingredients: Salt to taste, if necessary; 2 drops Tabasco sauce; 1 cup long-grain rice; 1½ tablespoons finely chopped onion; 2½ tablespoons butter; 2 sprigs parsley; ½ bay leaf; 1½ cups fresh or canned chicken broth; 1½ cups fresh or canned chicken broth

Preparation info

Six to eight
servings.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

About

This recipe is foolproof and yields a rice of uncommon delicacy with a buttery, rich flavor and every grain “standing apart,” as some books put it. It is the method of Pierre Franey, one of America’s greatest chefs.

Ingredients

2½ tablespoons butter
1½ tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 c

Main course
Vegetarian
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Use a heavy ovenproof saucepan with a heavy lid (a lightweight saucepan will not work). Melt 2 tablespoons of th