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Basic Rice Pilaf

Type: Rice
Courses: Side dish
Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 tablespoon 15mlOlive oil
1/2 cup 31g / 1.1ozChopped onion
1 cup 160g / 5.6ozRice
2 1/2 cups 592mlChicken broth - plus additional, if necessary
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1/2 lb 227g / 8ozShrimp - peeled, deveined
1 tablespoon 15mlChopped green onions
1 tablespoon 15mlChopped parsley
1 teaspoon 5mlBayou Blast - see * Note

Recipe Instructions

* Note: See the "Bayou Blast - {Emeril's Creole Seasoning}" recipe which is included in this collection.

In a medium saucepan heat oil over high heat. Add onion and cook until tender but not browned, about 5 minutes. Add rice, stirring to coat in oil. Add stock and season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmering, cover and cook 10 minutes. Check rice, and if almost tender add shrimp, green onions, parsley, and more liquid, if necessary. Cook until shrimp are pink and rice is tender. Sprinkle with Bayou Blast before serving.

This recipe yields 2 servings.

Source:
ESSENCE OF EMERIL with Emeril Lagasse - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # EE-019 broadcast 02-26-1997) - Downloaded from their Web-Site - http://www.foodtv.com

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