Elizabeth and I decided to make a nice Mexican meal for dinner and I was responsible for figuring out how to make Spanish Rice. Have I told you how much I appreciate Google? It can be used to find recipes for anything. Well, I'm guessing anything but I haven't tried to find every recipe yet. Perhaps there's no recipe for cooking Durian... I did find a bunch of Spanish Rice recipes out there and was immediately drawn to the one I used because of its title: "Best Spanish Rice." After all, if I'm going to try making something new why settle for less than the best?
It turns out that this was an incredibly easy way to make Spanish Rice and it even used a rice cooking technique I learned from Julia Child when I made Risotto for the first time. After chopping up a small onion, it was cooked in about two tablespoons of oil until tender. That, by the way, was about the hardest part of this entire recipe! I then added 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice an sauteed it with the onions for a couple of minutes. This cooks the starch coating of the rice to keep it from turning into "sticky" rice. You'll notice the rice grains turn an almost translucent color as it cooks.
Once that was done it was time for the liquid. 2 cups of chicken broth and 1 cup of chunky salsa are used for the liquid instead of water. The combination of onions, broth, and salsa give the rice its color and yummy flavor. Everything was brought to a boil then covered and cooked at a simmer for 20 minutes.
All that was left was dishing out the rice when the time was up. Easy, right? While I was doing this, Elizabeth was taking care of the enchiladas. I get at least partial credit because I'd bumble across the recipe and showed it to her. Since she made the enchiladas I won't tell you much about them other than they were some of the best tasting enchiladas we've had! Good enough that we had leftovers for breakfast the next day and then made some more for dinner the next night! Yes, they really were that good. If you'd like to make them yourself, the recipe is found at:
The rice was incredibly moist and flavorful. Also nice was that the leftover rice was still nice and moist the next day. So take that Covid-19! We couldn't go to our Mexican restaurant for dinner but we still had an awesome dinner!
Bon Appetit!
P.S. After I wrote this I did a quick Google search and, yep, sure enough there are a bunch of recipes for Durian. I'm still not brave enough to even try them. I've seen the Durian fruit used on several TV cooking shows and watched very daring chefs gagging and retching as they smell or taste this fruit. Most have described its smell as similar to a rotting dirty sweatsock. Even one of the recipes I looked at describes it as "very aromatic" and "an acquired taste." Thanks but no thanks. If you want to make something with Durian please add a comment and tell me about your experience. I'll even help you out and give you a link to some recipes: https://www.kuali.com/kitchen-inspirations/10-mouth-watering-recipes-with-durian/
Good luck!
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