Garlic Butter Rice

Here’s another recipe y’all requested on Instagram: Garlic Butter Rice. While I only have one other recipe with Garlic Butter in the title, it is a favorite flavor combination in my house, and I have quite a few recipes that use it. This is your basic white rice, just with hella garlic added. I think it’s amazing!

Garlic Butter Rice Ingredients

Feel free to jump to the full recipe, but here are useful notes about the ingredients you will need to make this Garlic Butter Rice recipe:

• Water: Can’t cook rice without water! Well, not this way, at least.
• Long-grain rice: I use Uncle Ben’s parboiled enriched long-grain rice. If you use a different grain, or rice that isn’t parboiled, you likely will need to follow package instructions to get the best results. Making rice can seem finicky, but it almost always boils down to knowing how to cook the kind you’re using.
• Unsalted butter: Salted butter is fine if you have taste buds that enjoy more, or if you omit or reduce the amount of Kosher salt added to the recipe.
• Minced garlic, dried parsley, dried chives: I guess I could technically call this Garlic and Herb Rice but I’m not! The herbs are optional, honestly. I initially added them for appearances, but I do enjoy the light flavor they impart as well. Make sure you mince the garlic before you measure it. Three tablespoons of minced garlic is a lot, whereas three tablespoons of garlic, minced is not.
• Kosher salt, cracked black pepper: Keeping it simple on the seasonings front. We want the garlic to be the star of this Garlic Butter Rice. If you’d like to be more adventurous you most definitely can.

How to Make Garlic Butter Rice

Full instructions are included in the recipe below, but here is a basic overview of what you’ll need to do, along with some important tidbits to help you make the most of this Garlic Butter Rice recipe:

• Start on the Garlic Butter Rice. Add your butter to a medium-sized saucepan and place it over medium high heat. Once the butter has melted, add the rice. Stir to coat in the melted butter, then allow to toast for 4-5 minutes, until most grains are lightly browned. Stir in the salt, pepper and minced garlic, then pour in the water. Stir to break up any clumps of rice, and allow to come to a boil.
• Let it Cook. Once boiling, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce the heat to low. Allow the rice to cook, undisturbed, for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, all of the liquid should be absorbed. Remove from heat and allow to steam, without lifting the lid if possible, for an additional 5 minutes.
• Finish the Garlic Butter Rice. After 5 minutes have passed, pour in the dried chives and parsley, and use a fork to fluff the rice as you stir the dried herbs into the rice. Be gentle, but throughout so the herbs and garlic is evenly distributed throughout the rice. Dassit!

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