Rice and Pasta Pilaf

Name: Rice and Pasta Pilaf
Yield: Serves 4 to 6 As a Side Dish
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, basmati rice or other long-grain white rice; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 ounces, vermicelli, broken into 1-inch pieces; 1 , onion, grated; 1 , garlic clove, minced; 2 1/2 cups, chicken broth; 1 1/4 teaspoons, salt; 3 tablespoons, minced fresh parsley

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2014, America's Test Kitchen TV

Side Dishes

Pasta

Rice

How do you get rice and pasta to cook up fluffy and tender in one pot? With a good soak.

SERVES4 to 6 As a Side Dish

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This elegant version of rice pilaf combines rice with pieces of vermicelli that have been toasted in fat to add richness and a nutty flavor. In order to produce a rice pilaf with rice as perfectly cooked as the pasta, we had to get the rice...

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