Lemon and Garlic Rice

Try a new alternative to your plain old white rice with this lemon and garlic rice recipe. Perfect, fluffy rice with plenty of flavour is the best side and goes with anything!

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• Ingredients
• How to cook lemon and garlic rice
• Serving suggestions
• Top tips to make the BEST rice
• More tasty side dishes
• Recipe

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Ingredients

• Lemon and garlic – the main flavour enhancers of your dish.
• Rice – Use white or brown rice to suit your preference.
• Vegetable stock, or water + a stock cube – adds more flavour to the rice.

How to cook lemon and garlic rice

Heat the oil in a small pot, and add finely minced garlic. Sute for a minute, then add dry rice and vegetable stock.

Cook the rice on medium heat until all the water has absorbed. Depending on the type of rice you use, this should take 10-20 minutes.

Add the juice from half a lemon to the cooked rice, and give it a stir. Allow the rice a minute to absorb the lemon juices, then serve it while still hot.

Serving suggestions

Serve lemon and garlic rice with your favourite protein mains. This dish is perfect with lemon chicken, honey mustard pork chops, lemon and caper sea bass, chicken and aubergine curry or slow cooker chicken adobo.

You can also serve dish with any meal where you would typically serve rice. The combination of lemon and garlic is particularly nice paired with most meats and Mediterranean flavours.

Top tips to make the BEST rice

Here is how you can get perfect lemon and garlic rice every time:

• Always cook rice on medium heat. If using a too high heat, more water will evaporate and it will not be cooked properly. You also risk burning the rice!
• Use double the volume of water compared to rice. This is the perfect water to rice ratio.
• Add seasoning to the rice before cooking. This way, the rice will absorb more flavour.

More tasty side dishes

Complete your meal with any of these delicious sides:

• Creamy slow cooker mashed potatoes – creamy, fluffy and delicious mashed potatoes made super easy in your slow cooker.
• Oven roasted green beans – these flavourful green beans are roasted in the oven in less than 15 minutes.
• Honey roasted parsnips – a classic British side dish, mandatory for a roast dinner.
• Brussels sprouts with bacon and maple syrup – a new, exciting way to prepare brussels sprouts!

Recipe