Cilantro Lime Rice
INGREDIENTS
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2 cups of water or broth, like a chicken broth. I prefer water as to not hide the lime or cilantro taste but if you use broth you might want to cut back on the amount of salt.
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1 cup of rice, long grain white rice or basmati work well. I prefer basmati and its fairly easy to find nowadays but you could substitute brown rice if you prefer.
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1 Lime, since you are mostly using the lime just for the juice, in a pinch you could substitute a condensed lime juice, but I like to add a little zest and think fresh lime juice is better.
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1/2 tsp. of salt, again you can adjust the amount for personal taste. I find people's preferance for salt levels varies greatly.
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1/2 cup of fresh cilantro (chopped). I love cilantro so I add a bit more but adjust for personal taste. Once the store was out of fresh cilantro so I used a "fresh" cilantro paste and it was horrible so please use fresh cilantro, a bunch usually runs
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1 tbsp. of vegetable oil or quarter stick of butter. I like vegetable oil, but butter or margarine works too. Only need enough oil to coat the bottom of pan. Be careful, too much oil and it can turn out a bit greasy and heavy when done.
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