Easy Yellow Rice With Seafood
This Easy Yellow Rice With Seafood is an awesome recipe that can be put together in no time for dinner. A versatile recipe, comforting and perfect for the entire family. Seafood can be replaced with shrimp.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 338kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- 1 cup Arborio rice
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 ½ cups water or fish/vegetable stock
- ½ teaspoon salt or to your taste
- 1 pound frozen seafood medley
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 4 ounces roasted red peppers
Instructions
- Chop the onion and dice the garlic cloves.
- Heat the oil in a 10-12″ cooking pan over medium high heat. Place the onions and garlic in the pan and stir for 2 minutes until the onion becomes translucent.
- Add the rice to the pan and stir for another 2 minutes until the rice becomes a delicate golden brown. Stir occasionally to ensure that rice does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Add turmeric and stir to combine.
- Add the liquid and the salt.
- Bring the water or stock to a boil and reduce the heat to medium low.
- Cover the pan and let it simmer for about 25 minutes or until the rice is cooked and the liquid almost absorbed.
- 15 minutes after you covered the pan, add the frozen peas, chopped roasted peppers and the seafood.
- Remove the pan from the heat and serve.
Notes
Rice: If you do not use Arborio rice, you will need to adjust the amount of liquid for the type of rice you use. In general, the ratio is 1 cup of rice and 2 cups of liquid. If you are not sure, look at the rice package you are going to use and see if there are some instructions on how to cook it.
Note about seafood: I used a Trader Joe's bag of seafood blend I had in the freezer. This bag had small shrimp, calamari rings, and bay scallops, a pretty good amount to make this quick dinner. If you don’t have seafood, the recipe goes very well with only shrimp. Cooked chicken or even sausages are good too.
Turmeric: Turmeric is used in this recipe mainly for color, so if you don’t have that, there are some options: saffron or annatto. Also curry is a good replacement, but the rice will take the flavor of the curry, which is not necessarily a bad idea.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 338kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 92mg | Sodium: 498mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g
