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Pine Nut and Basil Rice

Pine Nut and Basil Rice Ingredients: nuts, pine nuts, dried oil, olive, salad or cooking rice, white, long-grain, regular, unenriched, cooked without salt water, bottled, generic spices, basil, dried Directions: In a...

Pine Nut and Basil Rice

Ingredients:
nuts, pine nuts, dried
oil, olive, salad or cooking
rice, white, long-grain, regular, unenriched, cooked without salt
water, bottled, generic
spices, basil, dried

Directions:
In a 1 1/2-quart heavy saucepan cook pine nuts in oil over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 2 minutes.
With a slotted spoon transfer pine nuts to a bowl.
Add rice to oil in pan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, 1 minute.
Add water and bring to a boil.
Cover rice and cook over very low heat until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 18 minutes.
Remove pan from heat and let rice stand, undisturbed, 5 minutes.
Finely chop basil.
Fluff rice with a fork and stir in basil, pine nuts, and salt and pepper to taste.