Rice to Accompany Fish

Name: Rice to Accompany Fish
Cuisine: Saudi Arabia
Ingredients: Oil; ¼–½ teaspoon saffron; 500 g (1 lb) long-grain rice; Salt and black pepper; 60 g (2 oz) pine nuts; 2 onions, sliced into half-moon shapes

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

Most Middle Eastern fish dishes are accompanied by rice. The traditional Arab rice for fish is cooked with pine nuts and coloured pale yellow with saffron.

Ingredients

Oil
¼–½ teaspoon saffron
500 g (1

Asia
Saudi Arabia
Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a heavy saucepan. Stir in the saffron and throw in the washed and thoroughly drained rice. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir well over high heat until the rice acquires a yellow, transparent glow. Add boiling water equal to the volume of rice used (