Lime Cilantro Rice
This is a tasty way to prepare rice no matter how you serve it, and it's also excellent in the Cafe Rio-Style Pork Salad. Basmati rice is a must for this recipe; whether you use the brown or white variety is up to you. Basmati makes the first step of toasting the rice in olive oil and garlic much less important. In fact, when I used basmati rice, I had a hard time telling the difference in flavor between the rice that was toasted in oil and garlic and the rice that I simply used plain. While the zest is the key ingredient that makes this rice stand above other lime rice recipes, be careful to not add too much zest when feeding young children. Start with 1/2 tsp and then add more to taste, if desired. My kids loved the rice and gobbled it up. They chose the white rice first, but when that was finished, the brown rice disappeared from our refrigerator as well!