Source:

William Bohannon

Serves/Makes:6

Ingredients

• 2 cups (475 ml) basmati rice
• 1 flour tortilla
• olive oil
• butter or margarine
• 1 moistened terry cloth kitchen towel

Preparation

• Pour some olive oil in a small stew pot.
• Place tortilla on bottom of oiled pot.
• In another pot, start water boiling for rice.
• Place rice in pot and parboil in rapidly boiling water for 5 minutes while stirring.
• Put rice in collander rinse and strain.
• Place wet rice on flour tortilla in pyramid fashion.
• Make several evenly spaced holes in rice pyramid and mold little pieces of cold butter with your fingers and fill the holes.
• Cover pot with dry kitchen towel.
• Place lid on top.
• Cook on very low heat 20 min.

Comments

Serve with tiny pieces of the burnt tortilla mixed in. Very authentic.