Name: Sesame Rice with Edamame & Dill
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 tbsp dill; 2 cups frozen edamame beans, blanched; 5 spring onions, finely sliced on the diagonal; 2 tbsp coriander, stems picked, and roughly chopped; ½ cup good sesame seeds, toasted; 1 tsp sesame oil; 3 tbsp tahini; juice of 2 lemons and grated zest of one; ½ tsp saffron, steeped in 2 tsp boiling water; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 rounded tbsp butter; 1½ cups basmati rice

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Set a Table

By Karen Dudley

Published 2018

About

There was a time in my life when I lived, almost hermit-like, on a beautiful property wedged between Groot and Klein Constantia called Little Stream. The silence there, my solitude (just me and my dog, Latté) and the time I had for contemplation was a deeply formative time in my life. Although that solitude has now completely dissipated with my immersion in the joyous noise of family and catering life, there are moments, usually when I am eating something simple like this rice dish, when I