Sunday, March 04, 2007

Granny's Savannah Red Rice

I have been archiving Granny's recipes. Here's one to share, good for this chilly Sunday!

Granny's Savannah Red Rice

Recipe By: Helen Burns Ewing
Serving Size: 4
Cuisine: American-South
Main Ingredient:
Categories: Side Dish

Ingredients
1 can whole tomatoes
1 cup white rice
1/2 medium onion ; chopped
4 -6 bacon strips
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Dash ; of garlic powder

Instructions
1. Fry the bacon. If you use 6 strips, remove two or three teaspoons of drippings.
2. Remove the bacon, add the onion to the drippings and cook until the onions are soft, about 2-3minutes.
3. Crush tomatoes well, by hand if you like.
4. Crumble the bacon.
5. Add the crumbled bacon, garlic powder, salt, and onion to the cooking onions.
6. Bring to boil, then simmer for five minutes.
7. Add rice, bring back to boil, then reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes or until the rice has absorbed the liquid. Let stand five minutes.

5 comments:

Jennifer said...

I'm pretty sure Granny also added a bit of sugar to her red rice. Can anyone confirm this?

Jennifer said...

Oh-and she used instant rice~!

Julia said...

Oooh can we post more of these??

Laura said...

Jennifer - here's Granny's Shrimp Scampi where she specifically says Rice-A-Roni:

Granny's Shrimp Scampi

Recipe By: Helen Burns Ewing
Serving Size: 0
Cuisine:
Main Ingredient:
Categories: Ewing, Main Dish

-= Ingredients =-
Spanish ; Rice-a-Roni
Langostinos
1 can mushrooms
1/3 cup dry white wine

-= Instructions =-
Cook Spanish Rice-a-Roni, then in a 2 ½ casserole combine rice with langostinos, 1 can mushrooms, 1/3 cup dry white wine. Bake 20 minutes at 350°.

JerryFLA said...

This looks like my modified version of the original recipe I have from Granny, through Jean. I modifed to added the extra 2 pieces of bacon because, well, it's bacon. :-)

And Granny did indeed use instant rice, which I never seemed to have, so I used regular rice and added the 20 minutes of simmering to the recipe. If you use Minute Rice, you don't need the 20 minutes. Yummmmm!

I have a couple of other recipes from Granny, including fried chicken, and short ribs. I'll dig 'em out and post 'em.