Authentic Greek Lemon Rice-Rizi Lemonato
The authentic recipe for the famous Greek rice. Delicious to eat plain or as a side. This Greek lemon rice is cooked with sauteed onion in olive oil, vegetable broth and finished with plenty of fresh lemon.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small white onion finely chopped
- 1 cup uncooked plain white long grain rice
- 2 cups (500 ml) water or vegetable broth
- 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- Lemon zest from half a lemon optional
- 1 ½ tbsp. chopped parsley optional
- Fresh ground pepper for serving
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil over over medium heat. Sauté the onion until soft and translucent for about 5 minutes.
- Add the rice and continue heating stirring the rice until it begins to turn golden about 1 minute.
- Add the broth, cover and lower the heat until you have a simmer. Cook for 10-15 minutes (this depends on what kind of rice you used), rice should be cooked, and most of the liquid absorbed.
- Turn off the heat and keep the rice covered for 10 minutes.
- Add lemon juice and fresh ground pepper and fluff up with a fork.
- Add salt to taste.
- Optionally add chopped parsley and lemon zest.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Notes
For this particular Greek rice recipe you traditionally use plain long grain rice as you don’t want a sticky texture. I do not recommend using basmati or Jasmine rice which will give out a different flavor.