Southern
Dirty Rice
Dirty Rice is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground pork
- 4 oz chicken livers
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 green bell pepper
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1.5 cups long-grain white rice
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 tbsp cajun seasoning
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 scallions
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Finely chop the chicken livers.
- Heat the olive oil in a deep skillet over medium-high and brown the ground pork, then add the livers and cook until no longer pink, about 3 minutes.
- Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic and cook until softened, about 6 minutes.
- Stir in the rice, cajun seasoning, salt, and pepper to toast for 1 minute, then pour in the broth and add the bay leaf.
- Cover and simmer over low heat until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed, about 20 minutes.
- Discard the bay leaf, fluff with a fork, and fold in the scallions before serving.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dirty Rice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Dirty Rice carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Dirty Rice takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on rice, pork, and celery.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.