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Title: Avocado-Almond Rice
Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients

      2 tb Unsalted butter, margarine,
           -olive o
           or avocado oil
    1/2 c  Minced onion
      1 c  Long-grain white rice
      2 c  Hot water
      1    Bay leaf
    1/4 ts Salt
           Black pepper, freshly ground
      1 md Red bell pepper; roasted and
           - peeled
      1 lg Avocado - (10 or 11 oz);
           -preferably Haas
  1 1/2 ts Fresh thyme leaves
           (or 1/2 teaspoon crumbled
           -dried thy
      2 tb Olive oil; plus
      2 ts Olive oil
    1/3 c  Whole or chopped toasted
           -almonds

Instructions

In a heavy medium saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Add onion and cook,
stirring, for 7 minutes, or until softened. Add rice and saute over
medium heat, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add hot water and stir once. Add
bay leaf, salt, and a pinch of ground pepper. Bring to a boil, cover, and
simmer rice over low heat, without stirring, for 18 to 20 minutes or until
it is tender and the liquid is absorbed.
Discard bay leaf. Dice bell pepper. A short time before serving, peel,
pit, and dice avocado. Add thyme, red pepper, oil, and avocado to rice and
stir gently with a fork. Gently stir in about half the toasted almonds.
Taste rice, adjust seasoning, and transfer rice gently to a serving dish.
Sprinkle with remaining almonds. This recipe serves 4.

Comments: Rice with a garnish of toasted nuts is a Sephardic dish for
festive occasions. This colorful version also features roasted red bell
peppers as well as avocado cubes, and can play the double role of hot dish
or salad. A major crop in Israel, avocado from the Jewish state is
exported in large quantities to Europe.

Recipe Source:
FAYE LEVY'S INTERNATIONAL JEWISH COOKBOOK by Faye Levy (c) 199(?)
Warner Books, New York - ??? pages, (over 250 recipes) - $29.95
As reprinted in the May/Jun, 1992 issue of Cookbook Digest

Formatted for MasterCook II by: Joe Comiskey {* Prodigy Service ID #
JPMD44A} on 12-03-1995

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Contributor: Faye Levy

Preparation Time: 0:00

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