WHITE RICE WITH PLANTAINS
(8 servings)

White Rice with Plantains, served in green pottery from Michoacan.

4 ripe plantains
Corn oil
2 recipes White Rice

WHITE RICE
(4 servings)

1 cup rice
2 T lard or 3 T corn oil
1/2 small onion, grated
1 garlic clove
1 celery stalk
Juice of 1/2 lime
2 c. chicken broth

Soak the rice in very hot water for 15 minutes.  Drain it; rinse it in cold water; then drain very well.  Saute the rice in hot lard or oil for a minute or so.  Add the onion and garlic.  When the rice sounds like sand as it is stirred in the pan, add the celery, lime juice, and chicken broth.  Bring to a boil, cover, lower heat and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes.  Discard the celery and serve.

Peel the plantains and slice them diagonally.  Fry the plantains in hot oil, turning once, until golden.  Drain on brown paper.  Top the rice with the fried plantains.

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