Carbs. A giant plate full of carbs. I love it.
Carbs with topping!
red bell pepper, onion, golden raisins, peas, pistachios
Oh and the orange zest! AB added orange peel and removed. I've kept it in. It was good!
Sweatin' the onions and peppers.
Added the rice and let it get "nutty".
At about this time I realized that the pot is supposed to oven as well. crap. So everything is moved to a cast iron dutch oven.
Instead of water, the rice cooks in chicken stock. AB uses chicken stock and saffron water but holy hell that is expensive. We just replaced the saffron water with more stock and it was still delicious.
The part where I was most skeptical. Alton takes a wet kitchen towel to wrap the lid of the pot before placing in the oven.
It worked! Well at least the the towel didn't catch on fire, which I take to mean it worked!
The moment of truth.
Ours wasn't quite done and still crunchy. Added a half cup of water and put the lid back on for 10 minutes and that was all it took to finish it up!
Added the fixins.
We threw in some chicken to appease my protein lovin' husband.
A big bowl of this is a giant warm hug. From rice. Just let it happen. With chicken this was a great main dish. When we do this again, I think we will double all toppings and add more vegetables. You can pretty much throw in any bits and pieces of leftovers from the fridge/pantry.
I have no idea how long this took to make. I'll time it next time.
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