2bleu's Lemony Rice With Peas (Risi E Bisi)
"This side dish is a light, refreshing, and a wonderful accompiniment to broiled fish or meat. It is also a great use of leftovers. You can vary the nuts from walnuts, to pecans, pine nuts or even sunflower seeds."
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- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 6 green onions, thinly sliced
- 3 cups rice, cooked
- 1 cup peas, cooked (frozen or shelled fresh)
- 2 lemons, juice and zest of
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
- salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons walnuts, toasted and chopped fine (optional)
directions
- Heat butter and oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add all but 2 tablespoons green onions; sauté 30 seconds.
- Add rice and sauté until heated through, about 4 minutes.
- Add peas, lemon juice, zest, parsley, and salt and pepper. Sauté 2 minutes to blend flavors.
- Garnish with remaining green onions and optional chopped walnuts and serve immediately.
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Reviews
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This is a very good rice dish. We all really enjoyed it. I used my Wok to saute in. I cut the lemon in half as my husband isn't crazy about lemon. He thought it was very good and it had enough lemon for me as well. I subbed sliced almonds for the walnuts and they were perfect. I will be making this one again. Thanks for sharing your recipe. -
Absolutely delicious! The tart lemon against the sweet peas was superb, and the walnuts were indeed a good touch. Next time I'll see what almonds or pine nuts do. -
This is really good. Used a pinch of dried parsley and omitted the optional walnuts as I didn't have it. The lemony taste blended well with the rest of ingredients and I considered it an extra Vit C since I'm down with the flu. Thanks, 2Bleu!
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it was a little too much lemon, so with the leftovers i added a little goat cheese. That made it a little more savory and a meal in itself!! -
Amazingly good! The walnuts were a really nice addition, I recommend including them. Although I ended up using juice and zest of 1 1/2 lemons, I think 2 would have been better (as per chef's recommendation). Otherwise, I cooked the rice in vegetable broth and lowered the butter and oil to 1 teaspoon each and added some dill (mmm). I did overcook the peas a bit (forgot to lower the cooking time for 1 cup of frozen peas) so they came out a bit wrinkled. This of course was not the recipe's fault. My BF is a huge fan of rice and peas (risi e bisi) so I figured he'd love this recipe, and so he did! Will definitely be making this again, it's a winner!
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This is a very good rice dish. We all really enjoyed it. I used my Wok to saute in. I cut the lemon in half as my husband isn't crazy about lemon. He thought it was very good and it had enough lemon for me as well. I subbed sliced almonds for the walnuts and they were perfect. I will be making this one again. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
2Bleu
Duncan, South Carolina
Original Zaaarite. Food lovers.
Lynnda passed away in March 2020. Her recipes live on here for everyone to enjoy and Rick continues the tradition. We will forever live together through our food. Live well. Eat well.?
