Green Rice

Yesterday my daughter made us the best rice ever - in minutes - using leftovers.

The ingredients:

about 2 cups (mugs will do) of cooked, left-over, white rice
1/2 tablespoon butter

a good handful of fresh, spinach leaves

2 cloves of garlic, peeled

1/2 vegetable stock cube

3/4 cup/6 fl oz/about 170 ml water

6-8 fresh basil leaves

She put the rice and butter in a medium size saucepan and the rest of the ingredients into our food processor.  The processor was ‘whizzed’ for about 30 seconds to roughly puree the contents.  A few broken spinach leaves left are fine.  The resultant deep emerald green loose paste was then poured over the rice in the saucepan.   The contents were warmed over medium heat, while stirring, up to serving temperature.  This takes about 2-3 minutes.

The refreshed,  beautiful green grains of rice had the aroma of garlic with a hint of basil.  A serving gave real eye appeal on the plate along side grilled, blushing red, Wild Alaskan salmon, caught in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year.  Try and enjoy!