Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, creamy rice cilantro lime. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy rice cilantro lime using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy rice cilantro lime:

1. Prepare 2 cups uncooked Basmati rice
2. Prepare 3 cups vegetable broth
3. Get 1 cup water
4. Make ready 1 white or yellow onion
5. Prepare 1 clove garlic more if you prefer
6. Get Olive oil to sauté
7. Make ready Zest and juice from two limes
8. Get 1/2 bunch cilantro washed and stems removed so you just are using the leafy part
9. Take 1 can evaporated milk or heavy cream
10. Get to taste salt and pepper
11. Make ready Butter to season
12. Prepare Shredded cheddar cheese for top if you like

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Steps to make Creamy rice cilantro lime:

1. Cook first three ingredients on stove just like you are cooking rice with package directions, but use the vegetable broth and water.
2. Above picture is how mine turned out Then allow to cool
3. In sauté pan, sweat onions and garlic
4. Add to that lime zest and cilantro. Looks like this when done
5. Cook just a liitle longer and add all juice from the two limes
6. Once the sautéed mixture has cooled a bit, place all in a food processor or blender
7. Once in food processor, blend slowly and start adding the milk, or cream if you choose, to the onion and cilantro mixture. Mine came out like this
8. Now take the cooled cooked rice, put in a casserole dish for the oven large enough for all ingredients
9. The combine all together in a prepared casserole dish. Stir in some shredded cheddar cheese if you like and maybe some pads of butter. I like to add some cheddar cheese to the top and a little Panko for crunch. This is what mine looked like just before the oven
10. Cook in center of oven 350 degrees for about 15 - 20 minutes done. Enjoy.

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