Rice is a food that is consumed daily in all Colombian families, so, naturally, there are many recipes made with rice. Here is a very popular & delicious latin rice recipe that you will love. Arroz con coca-cola.
This is a different type of recipe that can be served as a side dish for chicken, grilled pork chops or a steak. This easy side dish is simple and delicious, the tasty coca cola (coke) rice, is so famous that it is time to learn how to prepare it.
Is coca-cola rice better with or without raisins?
This ric recipe is actually really easy to make. And the best part is that you add other ingredients to make it even more interesting, and it is that it carries an ingredient that is often used and sometimes not, as is the case with raisins or almonds. This rice has a sweet taste, so many people choose to use raisins, and the truth is complicated to decide whether or not to add this ingredient to the rice.
In this recipe, that coca-cola ingredient plays a crucial role, and people who like it will undoubtedly turn out think it is a delicacy when it comes to eating coca-cola rice with raisins. Still, for those who don't like raisins. Definitely, coca-cola rice with or without raisins is the perfect side dish.
Adding almonds is your personal choice, you decide if you put them. I hope you will be encouraged to prepare this delicious rice, made in a straightforward, economical, and also delightful way. You will love it at the first the bite, so do not think about it and come to cook with us.
How to make coca cola rice?
NOTES:
You can substitute the oil for butter to get an extra tasty results.
You can garnish the rice with chopped green onions or scallions.
I prefer to use long grain rice since it keeps its shape better when cooked in the lowest setting.
Coca-Cola Rice FAQ
Three things. Its sugar caramelises lightly as the liquid cooks off, which is where the colour comes from. The caramel and spice notes of the soda flavour the grains. And the acidity keeps the rice from going gluey. It replaces half the cooking water, not all of it.
Not really. What comes through is a caramel sweetness and a faint spiced note, not a soda flavour. If you did not know, you would guess there was sugar and something warm in it. It is sweet enough that it belongs alongside savoury dishes rather than as a plain side.
It will not work the same way. The sugar is what caramelises and gives the colour and body, and sweeteners do not caramelise. You would get the colour of the soda without any of the effect. Use the regular version.
Any regular cola works: the caramel base is what matters. Other dark sodas behave differently, since the spice profiles vary. Clear sodas add sweetness without the colour, which changes the point of the dish.
The last fifteen to twenty minutes cook the rice in trapped steam rather than in liquid. Every time you lift the lid you release it, and the grains on top stay hard while the bottom overcooks. That is why the recipe says not to uncover.
It is a festive rice rather than an everyday one: Christmas tables and celebrations, alongside roast pork or chicken. The sweetness and the raisins put it in the same category as other holiday rices across Latin America.
📖 Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups white rice
- 1 ½ cups Coca-Cola (regular, not diet: the sugar is what caramelises)
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 onion, finely chopped (used in step 2; it was missing from the original list)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon bouillon (about one cube, crumbled)
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
- 2 tablespoon oil
- ½ cup raisins, optional
Instructions
- In a large pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat.
- When it is hot, add the rice and the chopped onion and fry for a few minutes, until the rice turns translucent at the edges and the onion softens.
- Add the water, the Coca-Cola, the sugar, the salt, the raisins and the bouillon. Stir well and let it cook over high heat.
- When the liquid has cooked off the surface, cover the pot and lower the heat, then leave it for 15 to 20 minutes. Do not lift the lid during this time: the rice is cooking in trapped steam, and opening it leaves the top layer hard.
- Turn off the heat, uncover and fluff with a fork. Serve straight away.
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