Most of the time we serve brown rice, made in the rice cooker at our restaurant. But every now and then we have this beautiful blue rice served with a special dish (kao koo kapee). The color is made naturally with the help of the butterfly pea flower, which can be bought in dry form in Asian supermarkets. We just pick it in our garden of course. The recipe is for cooking the rice on your stove, because not everybody has a rice cooker.
BEAUTIFUL BLUE RICE
Prep Time: 10 minutes - Cook Time: 30 minutes - Total Time: 32 minutes (plus 10 minutes for steaming) - Makes: 3 cups of blue rice
INGREDIENTS
5 - 10 dried butterfly pea flowers
1 cup rice
8 cups of water
EQUIPMENT
Measuring cups
A pot for cooking the rice
PREPARATION
Rinse the rice under running water to remove excess starch.
Add the water to a pot and boil it with the butterfly pea flowers
METHOD
Remove the butterfly pea flowers from the boiling water
Add the rice to the boiling blue water.
Reduce the temperature as necessary to prevent overflow, but maintain a steady boil.
Boil, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
Drain off the remaining cooking water and return the rice to the pot.
Cover the pot and let the rice rest, off the heat, for 10 minutes.
Fluff, season as desired, and serve.
NOTE: if you sprinkle some lemon over the blue rice, it will turn purple!
This recipe is made at the @THEFOODFORESTKITCHEN, the slow food restaurant of @ECOLOGICTHAILAND.
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