Readers of this blog know by now that apart from turning everything into a Choka (thanks Bee), I am a serious lover of rice. I am always on the lookout for new rice dishes, so when a long-time reader of my column suggested Dirty Rice after delighting in my Offaly Good column, I knew I had to make this dish. I set about evaluating and analyzing a number of Dirty Rice recipes and took a little from each that inspired, and came up with one that I think stays true to this Cajun dish. Click here to read the column and for the recipe that is included in this week's edition.
I steamed some corn and okra to accompany the meal alongside some grape tomatoes.
Like I suggested at the end of the recipe, you can opt to reserve a couple of the chicken livers to pan-fry separately and serve on top of the rice.
Last week, I came across this site and when I found this Vietnamese Roasted Chicken meal, I promptly got up, went into the kitchen, assembled the ingredients and set my chicken to marinate for 16 hours. Oh, and guess what? the recipe said that the accompaniment was a Dirty Rice! In this case, a green-onion Dirty Rice. My heart, be still. The results, well, I think you can see for yourself. We don't get sticky rice in these parts so I used Basmati. The taste? Indescribably good! This meal is now definitely a part of my repertoire. Please try this dish, you will not regret it. I followed the recipe exactly. If you have the time, let me know what you think of it.
Have a great weekend everybody!
65 comments:
the pan fried chicken with rice looks SO good!
Great combo!
That is a beautiful rice dish!
I think both dishes are great but the rice is very original that I have bookmarked it.
The dirty rice with liver looks delicious. And your basamati dirty rice and chicken look fantastic! I'm really happy you like the recipe.
We must have similar tastes because, I made an okra, corn and tomato saute recently. Cheers!
I love vietnamese food and your chicken looks so delish especially with all that dirty rice. ;)Will have to try out that recipe.
Dirty rice looks so delicious and served with chicken liver (a fav of mine) would be a hearty meal.
I'd eat some of that Dirty Rice any time! It looks fantastically scrumptious! I love rice...
cheers,
Rosa
What can I say? Everything looks delicious here today, as always! :)
That rice looks good!
I LOVE okra. My grandma used to make this okra dish with stewed with tomatoes and herbs and spices. So yummy.
The rice looks wonderful. I'm doing a video sometime in the future with my Spanish friend who is going to teach me paella. Can you make a Caribbean paella??
Fabulous comfort food! Dirty rice reminds me of congri, a dish I learned to make under the guidance of a Cuban neighbor when I was a teenager.
THe dirty rice looks fantastic, I love chicken livers but the gizzards is something I am not comfortable yet. And the Vietnamese Roasted chicken looks fabulous as well.
Just about any type of chicken and any type of seasoned rice is delicious to me. I've had dirty rice in the past and it was delicious and looks very simple to make. The vietnamese roasted chicken looks delicious as well.
Love it. No way would I substitute beef (or anything for that matter) for the livers! You made me happy, Cynthia, with the photo of the extra livers on top!
Love this kind of food.
Looks sooo delicious.
Great pictures :)
zainab :)
I want a plate, that chicken and green onion rice looks delish! Fraid I can't do the chicken livers ... :)
A confort meal and the chicken looks wonderful :)
Dirty rice topped with more livers can be a meal by itself . But that Vietnamese chicken is lookig mighty good too. Im afraid I have only had restaurant versions of dirty rice. I have to make some homemade.
O Cynthia...you're a girl after my heart...& it aint keeping still after seeing the Vietnamese chicken & green dirty rice. WOW!!
As a great rice lover I would fall for all. But the dirty rice with chicken livers is my favorite. Love the side dish too!
The chicken with the green onion dirty rice looks amazing! I want to grab a plate and eat at your table!
I love rice in any form, kind or color and this dish is making my mouth water......and liver, yummmmm!!!!
Rice looks so gud Cynthiya!!
Wonder why it is called dirty rice! It looks yum.
I would cheerfully lick the plate and the serving bowl for that rice! Love your two choices of toppings, too!
The title caught my eye. I thought we washed our hands clean before eating and you're cooking "Dirty" rice?
Now I get it.:)
What a great looking pan-fried chicken, I am inviting myself to your kitchen to taste this +_+, feeling hungry.... and dont call it dirty rice, I love it!
Great shots and combo, Cynz
Dity rice looks so delish, cynthia.....i want to try it soon...i think i will use ground meat to make it....looks too tempting :)
My gosh, Cynthia, everything looks SO good, I just want to go home and make it right away! I love dirty rice but have actually never tried making it myself, so I definitely need to try it. And how beautiful are those simply steamed veggies?!
Oh yum- this looks so good.
I love basmati rice but I mix with with Jasmine to get more flavor..I forget what your rice dish similiar to ours Indian food In Malaysia but its' look soooo good!!.I have something for you hop over my kitchen now!!
"Dirty" rice actually looks so good! :)
ooo.. what a lovely idea.. and that looks too pretty to be called dirty rice!
Hey Cynthia,
Sorry but I haven't been here for a while, have been too busy traveling. I am now traveling overseas for work once a month and I am constantly jetlagged, like now, it's 3:10 am PST!!!
Are you still moving to the US? Your island is too nice, don't leave. :)
Best,
Bee
PS: Your photography is getting better and better. I am so proud of you. :)
Emm..I remember eating chicken livers when I was way young. That brings back a flood of memories including eating chicken feet at dim sum. hahaha.
oh my goodness... I can't stop drooling!!!
wow--the colors of everything work so well together--very vibrant!
Hi cynthia
nice post and very unique thought process !
Whew...that's some rice! I made rice too - a creamed spinach risotto - I posted the pics too.
-DTW
www.everydaycookin.blogspot.com
That is one beautiful rice dish! I love rice, too. I think we eat about 2 pounds every week. That is a lot of rice :D
Thanks for this Dirty Rice recipe. I'm going to try this out on my kids this weekend along with the steamed corn and okra. Looks great!
What a great heading, Cynthia! The rice looks so savoury and delicious with the chicken liver.
I was away in Malaysia for 18 days. While there I sampled several kinds of burfi (Indian cakes or sweets?) Do you know how to make any? If yes, please point me to a good recipe. Thanks!
Fantastic! I love dirty rice!
That rice aint dirty and the chicken ohhhh my I can only imagine for now how good it must be after soaking up the marinade for 16 hrs....will have to try this.
Hi Cynthia,
my daughter-in law is from Taiwan and she likes to cook rice very often and very yummy. And I am a serious lover of rice too.
About Dirty Rice I read first time. I wonder if she knows something about dirty Rice.
As always your post is perfect!
Hugzzz & Love
You're dirty rice post inspired me to give risotto another try! :) You can check out the recipe (and adventure!) at http://www.naturallyoriginal.blogspot.com
hi!come and join in the chicken event going in my blog!
Cynthia, chundakka is called turkey berry in English. It is small, round and green in colour. The plant is thorny.
This looks like heavan on a plate!
I don't eat rice nearly enough - especially dirty rice! What a beautiful dish!
Thank you for seeing my blog Cynthia! 're very polite, you have a webpage fantastic, you have some very beautiful pictures, I like a lot.
kisses!!!
Vanesa Sierra
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Ohhh lordy it's been forever since I've had dirty rice. Or as we call it, dirrrrrrty rice.
Your pictures are perfect. So clean & crisp. I love the char on the chicken. mmmm!
Thank you for your comments on my food blog. I aim to please all my chocoholics & saltaholics out there.
Cynthia!
That looks more like "Dirty Chicken"! Lol... I love the idea of the 16 hour marination! That by design is a recipe for success!
Thanks for sharing! Glad I found your blog!
It looks like a fantastic recipe. And what fabulous pictures...as always.
Cynthia, I love rice also. I had a dish called Muddy Rice with Blacked Prawns in New Orleans when we were there. I have to say it was hot hot hot. Thought my mouth was on fire lol. But, it tasted great at the same time. I'll have to give your recipe a try, it looks delicious.
I like the idea of eating lots of steamed veggies along side the meat rice combo.
Mmm ... dirty rice. Now you've reminded me that I haven't made it in a while! I'll have to try out your recipe!
Really a very tastey dishes...and looking very thristey in my throat
Dirty rice! I don't care! I want to be dirty! There is a Chinese-Teochew rice that looks like this - some kind of olive rice.
Cynthia,
Dirty Rice! , rice looks amazingly tasty , a must try for me , and to top it with fried chicken and chicken liver , ah! what more one can ask for .
hugs and smiles
jaya
I tried this out. It was SUPER yummy-licious. The leftover chicken stripped off the bone, mixed with the rice and frozen, tasted GREAT when re-heated in the microwave.
chicken liver! gosh i miss that dearly! let me try to get some from the market this weekend...and that dirty rice! i always love it dirty, baby ;)
My god, that looks such a terrific combo!! Cynthia, I feel like diving straight into that plate....Its been months since I had anything non-veg to eat coz my in-laws are strictly veg ...
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