Herbed Rice and Pasta Pilaf

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2014

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

Herbed Rice and Pasta Pilaf

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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