Back in the 1980s I do remember seeing packs of yellow savoury rice, often branded Golden Vegetable or similar. I also remember never having it and never buying it.
Over the last few years (or is that decades) I have been cooking Spanish inspired rice dishes (which I have been known to call paella), and a range of risotto dishes. When cooking paella and risotto I always use a specialist rice to ensure that it cooks right.
Well there I was cooking dinner and we decided on a rice dish, however I had no paella or risotto rice in the cupboard. I did however have some long grain rice. So reviewing a few recipes I came up with the following recipe.
1 onion
1 small red pepper
3 or 4 mushrooms
Pack of diced smoked pancetta
200g long grain rice
600ml boiling water
Knorr Chicken Stock Pot
1 teaspoon of Morrisons Chicken Seasoning
Tomatoes
Fresh parsley
Dice the onion, red pepper and mushrooms.
In a large frying pan, heat some olive oil.
Cook off the pancetta.
Add the onions and pepper and cook until softened.
Add the diced mushrooms and cook for another minute.
Stir in the rice.
Stir the stock pot into the boiling water and add to the rice mixture. Add the chicken seasoning.
Simmer for fifteen minutes until the rice is cooked.
Garnish the rice with chopped fresh tomato and chopped parsley.
We had our rice dish with some fish and salad.