Simple Rice Pilaf

Name: Simple Rice Pilaf
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, basmati rice or long-grain rice; 2 1/4 cups, water; 1 1/2 teaspoons, table salt; , Ground black pepper; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 , small onion, minced (about 1/2 cup)

Side Dishes
Rice
Vegetarian

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2000, America's Test Kitchen TV

Traditional recipes insist that for a truly great pilaf you must soak or at least repeatedly rinse the rice before cooking. Is this really necessary, or is it just an old wives' tale?

SERVES 4 as a side dish

TIME 50 minutes

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