Wednesday, 24 May 2006

Joanna Lumley's Girl Friday's Rice

Joanna Lumley reveals a quick and easy rice recipe

Serves 4 good portions

Method
1 Put 2 mugs of basmati rice into boiling water, flavoured with a vegetable stock cube. One large saucepan should have a whole cube – if you have 4 cardamoms toss them in as well.
2 Boil the rice until cooked, ie, until there is a pinprick of white in the centre of a bitten grain. Drain, put in a covered sieve over an inch of practically boiling water for 3 mins to steam dry – then serve as an accompaniment to vegetable curry, drenched in the juice of four lovely ripe limes.

Recipe taken from Cooking For Life compiled by Louise Robinson. For more information about this book, call 020-7793 4500 or visit www.wateraid.org.