Some general rules for flavoring rice

To season your rice, give it flavor and make a change from classic rice, you can:

• Vary the liquids used to cook your rice: a few lemon zests or poultry or vegetable stock dropped into the water will give it plenty of flavor and fragrance. You can also replace the cooking water with coconut milk or another vegetable milk.
• Add fresh spices and herbs: rice goes very well with many spices (which you can mix), but also many herbs.
• Test all kinds of sauces with different inspirations and textures: soy sauces, creamy-based sauces, sweet and savory sauces... 
Play with textures and the senses by adding crunch, fondant, acidity, bitterness or sweetness.
• Change the type of rice to vary the tastes, textures and colors of the dish.
• Cook rice differently to change from classic rice dishes by choosing to fry it, cook it pilaf-style, make risotto or arancini.

Rice's mild, rather neutral flavors enable it to marry with many kinds of spices and aromatic herbs, which give it plenty of flavor and fragrance.

• The ciboulette, its freshness, spicy taste and light onion fragrance to favor in cold salad recipes or add after cooking,
• The herbaceous taste ofparsleyfor cold as well as hot rice,
• The chopped coriander and its fragrant lemon-like taste for Asian-influenced rice dishes,
• The aniseed flavor of tragon and the warm scents of herbes de Provence for meat, vegetable or fish dishes.

On the spice side, 

• The indispensable curry (especially yellow curry) and its sweet, tangy flavor,
• The aniseed and slightly lemony flavors of cumin,
• The safran is its delicate, complex flavors that pair particularly well with rice,
• The sweet, bitter and slightly spicy taste of paprika,
• Turmeric, its peppery aromas and pungent taste, 
• Milled ginger, pungent and spicy.

Oriental-style spiced rice 

A fragrant, spicy recipe that showcases rice at its simplest  !

Ingredients:

• 150 g rice
• 1/2 red pepper
• 4 garlic cloves
• Sweet paprika
• Curry
• Vegetable oil
• Garden Intense garlic and chive crunch
• Pepper

Step 1: Peel and mince the garlic and dice the bell pepper.

Step 2: Sauté garlic and bell pepper in oil, add paprika, salt and pepper.

Step 3: Add water, rice, curry,

Step 4: Simmer for 15 minutes... Add a few turns of crunchy garlic and chives, and you're done!

Rice with Jardin Intense shallot crunch

A simple seasoning idea for a light rice dish but very fragrant and full of crunch: the Garden Intense crystallized potatoes with Le Guérandais Salt and in particular the Jardin Intense shallot crunch. In just a turn of the mill, these fragrant, delicately salt-crystallized shallots will simply sublimate the rice and bring out all its flavors in both cooking and seasoning.

The sweet fragrances of the shallot combined with the power of Le Guérandais Guérande Salt subtly lift the dish while leaving a delicate crunch under the tooth.

A Cantonese rice revisited

A gourmet, highly fragrant recipe with delicious Asian influences.

Ingredients:

• 200g cooked rice
• 100g peas
• 2 eggs
• 2 slices of ham
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• Soy sauce
• Nuoc sauce-mâm sauce
• Curcuma
• Cumin
• Milled coriander
• Fresh parsley
• Chives
• Vegetable oil, 
• Garden Intense Red Onion Crunch
• Pepper

Step 1: Heat a little oil in a frying pan, sauté the minced onion and garlic.

Step 2:Add the turmeric, cumin, ground coriander, and mix.

Step 3:Include the peas, diced ham, then fry for a few minutes.

Step 4:Beat the eggs into an omelette and cook separately, then cut into pieces.

Step 5:Add the pan-cooked rice, mix with the soy sauce, nuoc-mâm and leave to cook for 5 minutes.

Step 6:Integrate the eggs, add a few turns of the red onion crunch mill, sprinkle with chopped parsley and chives before serving... And bon appétit!

A creamy mushroom risotto

A gourmet, comforting recipe and a new technique for cooking rice... In risotto!

Ingredients:

• 200g risotto rice
• 300g mushrooms (button mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms...)
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 50g grated Parmesan
• 15cl fresh cream
• Persil
• Chives
• Thyme
• Romarin
• Curcuma
• Paprika
• Vegetable broth
• Olive oil, 
• Pepper
• Garden Intense thyme and rosemary crunch

Step 1: Heat the oil in a frying pan, sauté the minced onion and garlic until translucent.

Step 2: Add the sliced mushrooms, and sauté until golden.

Step 3: Add the rice and stir until pearly.

Step 4: Stir in the turmeric, paprika, thyme, and rosemary.

Step 5:Pour a ladleful of hot broth over the rice, let it absorb, then continue to add the broth as you go, while stirring.

Step 6:When the rice is cooked and creamy (after about 18 to 20 minutes), stir in the crème fraîche and Parmesan. Pepper gently.

Step 7:Sprinkle with chopped parsley and chives before serving. Add a few grindings of crunchy thyme and rosemary, and you're done!"

Lemon rice and spicy yoghurt sauce

A light, fresh dish, perfectly balanced thanks to the acidity of the lemon and the sweetness of the yoghurt.

Ingredients:

• 200g basmati rice
• 1 lemon
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 plain yoghurt
• Mustard
• Cumin
• Curcuma
• Minthew fresh
• Pepper
• Olive oil
• Garden Intense garlic and chive crunch

Step 1: Cook rice with salt, lemon juice and zest.

Step 2:For the sauce, mix the yogurt with the mustard, cumin, turmeric, minced garlic, and chopped mint.

Step 3:Serve the hot rice sprinkled with a few turns of Jardin Intense garlic and chive crunch mill. Top with spicy yoghurt sauce for a fresh, fragrant touch. Your recipe is ready!