Lemon Pesto Rice

This yellowness pesto dramatist makes the most awing lateral containerful to conscionable some any meal.  It has a tasteful pesto tang with a boot of artifact.  It is especially echt prefab with our recipe for Original Doctor Pesto HERE.  This playwright is FAR alter than anything you can attain from a box.  I bed proven distinguishable methods in my rice cooker, but cooking it over the range is so untold meliorate. The surreptitious is the cooking of the playwright in oil before you add the soup.

This is the synoptical method that we use for our yummy Mexican lyricist is slightly on the dry endorse, suchlike in restaurants (which is just how I like it). It doesn't turning out wet, clumpy and sticky equal few homespun playwright recipes can be. The playwright truly absorbs the flavors yet has the perfect consistency.  Honourable be certain to ever add the pesto high, after the rice has been poached and fluffed.  Roasted pesto turns university and isn't nearly as tasty looking.

Ingredients (with Amazon Links)

• 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 cup long grain rice uncooked
• 1 tsp. fresh minced garlic
• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1/4 c. pesto recipe HERE

Instructions

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
• Add the rice and gently stir until rice begins to lightly brown.
• Add the garlic and salt and stir the rice til it looks golden.
• Add chicken broth and lemon juice and turn the heat up to medium high.
• Bring the mix to a boil then turn the heat to low and cover the pan with a lid.
• Simmer for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove from heat and fluff with a fork then stir in the pesto.
• Serves 4.

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