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South African Yellow Rice

“This is a traditional South African recipe, which comes from the great culinary tradition of the Cape Malays -- originally brought in as slaves in the 17th century. It's easy and plain, but great with meats like venison, corned beef tongue or any meat with gravy. Also usually served with Bobotie: There is a good recipe by Caryn on this site.”

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Reviewed: Feb. 20, 2012

I was skeptical but being we were celebrating Fluorescent Yellow Food Day and I dislike most yellow foods like bananas and eggs I went ahead and tried it. My family really enjoyed this rice. Since my guy will not eat raisens, I soaked them in hot water seperately and stirred them into individual portions on our plates. We made mustard wings for more yellow food and had yellow cake for dessert. It was a lot of fun.

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Mich

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Boise, Idaho, USA

Living In: Nampa, Idaho, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 26, 2011

I recently attended a dinner party at a colleague's house. He is from South Africa and made this dish and was excellent. Compared to his version, this was a bit sweeter, but pretty close. It was great mixed with the Bobotie from this site, as well. I did sub craisins, as I don't like raisins.

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bsp09

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Phoenix, New York, USA

Living In: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2011

A good side dish to bobotie. It is pretty sweet, so depending on who you're cooking for I would adjust the sugar. I've made it both ways (sugar as written & sugar decreased) and it's delicious. It's not an amazing-wow dish, but it's a nice compliment to bobtie. I also made a cumin-date sauce to go with it. So all and all, a pretty good geelrys recipe.

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CookBookBabe

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: New York, New York, USA

Reviewed: Jul. 17, 2011

I enjoyed this recipe. It was very easy to cook. I used Splenda and reduced the sugar. With the raisins it was more than sweet enough. Very good, thanks for sharing.

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mzzg

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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Dallas, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 10, 2010

This was very good. My only complaint is that I don't think the turmeric dissolved well and some bites were a bit chalky. This might of been my fault, since I like my rice dry and only used 1.75 cups of water. It might of dissolved better in more water as the original recipe called for. Next time I will stir the spices in the water vigorously before adding the rice. My other changes was that I used only one tablespoon of sugar. Combined with the raisins, it gave the dish a hint of sweetness without being overally sugary.

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ETZNAB

Reviewed: Jul. 24, 2010

I made this with a north African chicken dish, and it was good. After reading some other reviewers' comments that they found it somewhat sweet, I made 1 serving ahead of time, and based on that, decided to use only about a quarter of the amount of sugar called for. I also soaked the raisins for about an hour to plump them up a bit. Served the meal with a South African white wine.

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Dave W.

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Reviewed: Jul. 19, 2010

I made in in the rice cooker, as a previous poster did. It turned out wonderful. This was delicious! This recipe is going into our regular rotation.

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Sandi

Reviewed: Mar. 13, 2010

This recipe was good, but the spices took from the rice its self.

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Morgan_Saffel

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2010

This was really good. I had a package of yellow rice and I wanted to try something new. I of course omitted the salt and turmeric because my packaged yellow rice already had spices in it. I made the yellow rice according to the package and tossed in the raisins, cinnamon, and sugar. I took the suggestion of others and only used 1 tablespoon of the sugar and it wasn’t too sweet to me at all.

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jaded

Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2010

this rice is so easy and it tastes awesome! my whole family loved it! i will definatly be making this again very soon! i served it with Bobotie, and it was really great! i don't really like meat loaf but i loved the bobotie and rice together!! i highly recomend this recipe!

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