My recipee

Rice and Beans!

I come from an Armenian cultural background. This rice recipe has been in my society for a very long time. My grandma’s mom thought it to her then my grandma thought it to my mom and now it’s my turn to learn this recipe. In Armenia we call rice ‘pilaf’. To make this, you need to have:

Recipee
¼ lbs butter
½ vermicelli pasta
2 cups rice
4 cups chicken broth
Salt

To start off, you melt the butter in a pan. While the butter is melting, you break the vermicelli into small pieces. When the butter has melted, you add it into the pan and you mix it until it gets brown. Once you see that the pasta has become golden brown, you add together the rice and you stir until it is well mixed with the butter. Once this is done, you insert the boiling broth, add salt if it needs to be seasoned. You stir this for a good 3 minutes and your rice is done.

I knew how to make this recipe for a long time because my mom use to make it as a side dish every time we had super. She showed me how to prepare it and it was a success. I shared this with a couple of my friends and they really liked it. The chicken broth gives it a little taste. If you want to add a little more color to your rice, you can add up some vegetables and not only it well taste better, it well be healthier.
In Armenia, rice has always been a side dish because it is part of our cultural beliefs.
We can’t eat a meal without having rice as a side dish.

Araz Torossian