Purple rice (red cabbage rice)

Purple atom is simply a garlicky, food atom broadside that owes its vibrant colour to reddish cabbage! Love this 2-in-1 that combines starch positive plentifulness of vegetables successful 1 dish, alternatively than making a crockery positive a starch separately. Goes with everything – Western, Asian, Mediterranean, Indian, Mexican!

Purple rice

You cognize those nights erstwhile you consciousness each smug due to the fact that you got up connected the play and marinated immoderate chicken truthful you could whip up a “quick dinner” during the week, lone to realise you didn’t program for sides to capable retired the meal?

Well, today’s look is conscionable the benignant of happening that volition prevention you. It’s 1 of those broadside dishes I telephone a two-in-one due to the fact that it includes plentifulness of vegetables arsenic good arsenic a starch to capable retired the meal. As opposed to making 2 sides, similar mashed potato positive a garden salad.

What it tastes like: Buttery and garlicky, and precise mild cabbage flavour really which volition entreaty to radical who don’t leap up and down astatine the notation of cabbage for dinner. Bonus: it’s specified a amusive colour!!!

Sautéed reddish cabbage for purple rice

Pouring jasmine atom into the cabbage

Pot of freshly cooked purple rice.

Ingredients successful purple rice

Here’s what you request to marque this colourful, veg loaded rice!

Missing rootlike stock, oops! Sorry!

• Jasmine rice – I similar utilizing jasmine atom successful this crockery due to the fact that you get that beauteous subtle fragrance.

  Other atom – the look volition enactment with agelong atom rice, mean atom grain and basmati rice, though you volition request an other 1/4 cupful of h2o oregon rootlike stock/broth. This is due to the fact that jasmine atom requires little liquid to navigator than different varieties of atom (more connected this successful my plain jasmine atom recipe!).

  The look is not suited to brownish rice, arborio/risotto rice, paella rice, chaotic atom oregon faux atom (cauliflower rice, quinoa etc) arsenic the navigator times and methods disagree truthful I’d request to change the recipe.

• Red cabbage – Also called purple cabbage, this is what gives the atom the vibrant purple hue! You tin usage plain ole’ greenish cabbage if you want, but where’s the amusive successful that?? 😎

• Garlic and onion – Flavour basal aromatics. You volition adore the food ail flavour successful this rice!

• Butter – As above, for promised buttery flavour! You’ll beryllium amazed however buttery it tastes adjacent though we’re lone utilizing 30 grams / 2 tablespoons of butter.

• Vegetable stock – The atom cooking liquid, tastier than water! Use debased sodium stock. If yours is afloat salt, skip the brackish successful the recipe.

• Salt and pepper – Seasoning for the rice.

• Green onion – For caller garnish astatine the end, though I wouldn’t accidental it’s critical.

How to marque purple rice

One big, abdominous rice-making regularisation that applies to ANY atom you cook: DO NOT STIR, DO NOT PEEK erstwhile your enactment the lid connected the pot! Unless, of course, you similar your atom unevenly cooked, gluey and mushy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. Use a ample saucepan oregon tiny pot, astir the size of excavation which is 28cm/11″. If you usage a saucepan that is excessively tiny (~20cm/8″) past the rice-cabbage substance volition beryllium excessively heavy which volition origin the atom to navigator unevenly.

   Sauté the ail and bulb successful the food until it smells astonishing / bulb is translucent. Then navigator the cabbage for a fewer minutes until it starts to soften (rather than being stiff and pokey). Don’t fto it get wholly wilted and brushed due to the fact that it volition navigator much with the rice.

2. Add atom and disturbance to overgarment successful the ail butter.

3. Add banal then scrape down the sides and propulsion the cabbage-rice nether the aboveground of the liquid, arsenic champion you can. The main happening is that you privation each the atom nether the liquid. A fewer grains poking supra the aboveground volition beryllium fine, they volition steam-cook.

4. Cook 12 minutes – Bring the liquid to a simmer, past enactment the lid connected and little the vigor to mean low, oregon debased if your burner is precise strong. Leave to navigator undisturbed for 12 minutes. Do not assistance the lid to peek and astir decidedly bash not stir! That volition disrupt the atom cooking and you’ll extremity up with unevenly cooked atom that’s mushy and gluey.

   Check – At the 12 infinitesimal mark, moving quickly, region the lid and tilt the saucepan to guarantee each the liquid has been absorbed. If it has not, permission it connected the stove for different infinitesimal oregon two.

5. Rest 10 minutes – Remove the saucepan from the stove with the lid inactive connected and remainder for 10 minutes. Never skip the atom resting step! The atom volition decorativeness cooking and the liquid connected the aboveground of each atom atom gets absorbed = fluffy rice.

6. Fluff past serve, garnished with a sprinkle of greenish onion!

What to service with purple rice

This cabbage atom is reasonably neutral flavoured, with a beauteous buttery, ail flavour. Which means it volition spell with beauteous overmuch immoderate dish, and immoderate cuisine, some Western and Asian.

While the possibilities are endless, here’s a starting constituent for you – immoderate speedy mains that I’d service alongside purple rice:

Crispy Garlic Chicken Thighs

Killer Lemon Butter Sauce for Fish

Chicken Rissoles (chicken patties!)

Garlic Prawns (Shrimp)

Salmon Patties

Greek Chicken

Sesame Crusted Tofu Steaks

Asian Glazed Baked Barramundi recipe

Ayam Goreng (Malaysian Fried Chicken)

And of course, it goes without saying that your purple atom volition sensation adjacent amended if you serenade it with Prince’s Purple Rain portion it’s steaming connected the stove. 🎶 Go on, bash it. You cognize I did!! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Print

Purple rice

Recipe video above. Purple atom is simply a garlicky, food atom broadside that owes its vibrant colour to reddish cabbage! Love this 2-in-1 that combines starch positive plentifulness of vegetables successful 1 dish, alternatively than making a crockery positive a starch separately.

Goes with everything – Western, Asian, Mediterranean, Indian, Mexican!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Western

Keyword cabbage and rice, purple cabbage recipe, purple rice

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Rice resting 10 minutes

Servings 5

Calories 206cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

• 30g / 2 tbsp unsalted butter
• 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
• 1/2 onion , finely diced
• 3 cups finely shredded reddish cabbage (tightly packed)
• 1/2 tsp cooking salt (kosher salt)
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1 cup jasmin rice , nary request to rinse oregon soak (Note 1 for different rice)
• 1 1/4 cup vegetable stock , debased sodium (or chickenhearted banal oregon h2o + 1 banal cube- Note 2)

Garnish, optional:

• 1/4 cup green onion , finely chopped

Cups – Metric

Instructions

• Melt butter successful a ample saucepan oregon tiny cookware implicit mean heat. (Note 3)
• Sauté veg – Cook bulb and ail for 1 infinitesimal until soft. Add cabbage, salt, and pepper. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring from clip to time, until the cabbage starts to soften but not wholly floppy (as it volition navigator much with the rice).
• Coat atom – Add atom and disturbance good to overgarment successful the flavour.
• Add the rootlike stock. Scrape down the sides and property the cabbage-rice substance down truthful each the atom is submerged.
• Cook 12 minutes – Bring to a simmer, past screen with a lid, crook the stove down to mean debased (or debased connected a stronger burner) and navigator for 12 minutes. Do not peek oregon stir!
• Rest 10 minutes – Turn disconnected the heat, region the saucepan from the stove and fto to remainder for different 10 minutes (with the lid on).
• Fluff & service – Use a rubber spatula oregon atom paddle to fluff the atom past tumble into a serving dish. Sprinkle with greenish bulb and serve!

Notes

1. Rice types – Recipe volition besides enactment with agelong grain, basmati and mean atom grain BUT you request to summation the banal by 1/4 cupful (60ml), due to the fact that jasmine atom needs somewhat little liquid to navigator through. (See plain jasmine rice look for much info.)

Rinsing – Not required to forestall atom from being mushy due to the fact that this look uses the close water-to-rice-ratio for jasmine atom (which is 1 cupful atom to 1 1/4 cups water). Most recipes get it incorrect = mushy rice. Also nary request to rinse to cleanable the atom if it was purchased successful a packet astatine the supermarket arsenic it volition beryllium clean. If you bash request to lavation the atom to cleanable it past shingle excess h2o disconnected precise good and trim banal by 2 tablespoons (to relationship for waterlogged rice).

2. Liquid – banal volition marque this atom tastier. If utilizing using water, adhd 1 chickenhearted oregon rootlike banal cube (dissolved) oregon 1 tsp banal powder.

3. Cooking vas size matters! Use a ample saucepan, excavation is 28cm/11″ wide, usage 1 astir this size. Don’t marque this successful a tiny 1 (~20cm/8″ wide) due to the fact that the rice-cabbage substance volition beryllium excessively heavy for the atom navigator evenly.

4. Leftover rice volition support for 2 days. Freezing volition enactment but the cabbage volition spell a tad watery though if you flip done good this shouldn’t beryllium a problem.

Nutrition per serving, assuming 5 servings.

Nutrition

Calories: 206cal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 486mg | Potassium: 211mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 928IU | Vitamin C: 33mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg

Life of Dozer

What bash you deliberation – volition helium spit it out?? 😂

The station Purple atom (red cabbage rice) appeared archetypal connected RecipeTin Eats.