Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2019
This umami-rich rice dish with tomato paste, soy sauce, and butter pairs perfectly with Shaking Beef (Bo Luc Lac).
Com do, or red rice, is an ultrasavory Vietnamese side dish. It's normally made as a fried rice by stir-frying precooked rice, but we made ours from scratch in one pot. To re-create the slightly drier texture of a fried rice, we held back a...