Rice for Fish
RIZ BI SAMAK
- 2 cups uncooked rice
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1 cup sliced onions
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1/4 tsp. saffron
- 1 tsp. salt
- Water
Soak rice in hot water for 30 minutes. Drain. Heat oil which may be
fresh olive oil or the oil remaining after preparing Yakhnit el Samak.
Fry pine nuts in oil until slightly browned. Remove nuts. Add rice to
oil along with salt and stir it thoroughly. Add 2 1/2 cups water and
saffron. Simmer rice gently, covered, on low fire until water is
absorbed and rice is tender. Turn rice onto a platter. Sprinkle with
fried onions and pine kernels and serve it as the accompaniment to
Yakhnit el Samak. The rice may be garnished with pieces of any
fried fish and served with a salad of cabbage, lettuce or radishes.
(From Food from the Arab World Marie
Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge, Khayat's, Beirut 1959)
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