Yellow rice with raisins

Yellow Rice with Raisins


1 cup (250ml) long grain rice
1 tsp (5ml) turmeric
Pinch salt
¼ cup (125ml) raisins or sultanas
2 cups (500ml) boiling water


Place all ingredients except sultanas into a heavy pot, cover, bring back up to the boil and then turn down heat as low as possible and leave for 25 minutes. stir in sultanas just before serving. Alternatively cook on low in microwave for 25 minutes in a covered microwave safe dish, or in a rice cooker.  stir in raisins just before serving.

sunflower rice variation:
1 onion, chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 red capsicum, diced
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/3 cup sunflower seeds

saute onion, capsicum  and cumin seeds with the rice.  cook as above, then stir in peas, sulflower seeds and sultanas at the end.