Cilantro Lime Brown Rice (and my favorite way to cook brown rice)

Cilantro Lime Brown Rice 

• 4 2/3 c water
• 2 T chicken bouillon ( I like better than boulion organic chicken base from Costco)*
• 4 t garlic –minced
• ½ bunch cilantro
• 1 can green chiles—or equivalent fresh
• ¾ t salt
• 1 T butter (optional)
• ½ onion
• Juice of 1 lime
• 3 c brown rice (I like Lundberg’s short grain brown rice from Costco)

1. Pulse cilantro, green chiles, salt, water, chicken bouillon, and onion together in a blender.
2. In a rice cooker add brown rice, the mixture from the blender, lime juice, and butter if using.
3. Cook on brown rice setting.

***Instead of cooking the rice in a rice cooker, I like cooking the rice this way

Foolproof Oven-Baked Brown Rice
Perfected by America’s Test Kitchen

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups brown rice
2 1/3 cups water
2 teaspoons unsalted butter or vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spread rice in an 8-inch square baking dish.

2.  Bring water and butter or oil to a boil, either in a saucepan or in the microwave.  Keep an eye on it and take it off heat immediately after it starts boiling.  Immediately stir in salt and pour water over rice in baking dish.  Cover baking dish tightly with 2 layers of foil, or heavy-duty foil.  Transfer baking dish to oven and bake rice until tender, about 1 hour.

3.  Remove baking dish from oven and uncover.  Fluff rice with fork, then cover dish with kitchen towel and let rice stand for 5 minutes.  uncover and let rice stand 5 minutes longer.  Serve immediately.

*** Can easily be doubled, just use a 9x13 pan. The cooking time remains the same.