Healthy rice recipe for 4 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has vegetable oil, onion, tagine spice blend, butternut squash, basmati rice, root ginger, garlic clove, fruit & nut mix, vegetable stock, crispy onion and parsley.
Butternut squash pilaf
Course: Healthy rice
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Oil: 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, crushed
- Onion: 1 onion, chopped
- Vegetable Stock: 600ml vegetable stock
- Parsley: chopped parsley, to serve (optional)
- Butternut Squash: 350g pack ready-diced butternut squash
- Root Ginger: 2 1/2 cm/1in piece root ginger, peeled and finely grated
- Basmati Rice: 225g basmati rice
- Tagine Spice Blend: 1 tbsp tagine spice blend (we used Bart Baharat)
- Fruit & Nut Mix: 100g fruit & nut mix
- Crispy Onion: 1 tbsp ready-made crispy onions
Directions
- Place a large pan over a medium heat. Add the oil and onion, and cook gently until softened, around 5 mins. Tip in the spice blend, butternut squash and rice, and fry until everything is sizzling and coated in the spices. Add the ginger and garlic, fry for 30 secs more, then scatter in the fruit & nut mix. Stir in the stock and put the lid on the pan. Keep covered but stir regularly, every 5 mins or so, for 20 mins.
- Once the rice is tender and the stock has been absorbed, serve at once on a large platter topped with crispy fried onions and chopped parsley, if you like.
