Easy Greek Lemon Rice In A Rice Cooker

Do you ever order takeout, but make your salad or rice to help you STRETCH your meal? We did that the other night when I made super easy Greek lemon rice in a rice cooker.

Takeout For The Win!

We tried a new (to us!) Greek restaurant for takeout and it was SO GOOD!!! We ordered shrimp on skewers, chicken, and lamb. The lamb was the favorite. Two of our meals came with greek salad and they all came with amazing French fries – we loved the cumin garlic fries!

I added lettuce from our garden to stretch the salad into a large family size Greek salad and I ordered a chickpea salad, as well. I just dumped the chickpeas, red onion, and arugula into the Greek salad. Delicious! 

We make A LOT of rice around here … How To Make Fluffy Indian Basmati Rice, Copycat Pork Fried Rice, and Kimchi Fried Rice With Kale are a few of our go-to favorites, but this super simple recipe is definitely going into the rotation.

Easy Greek Lemon Rice In A Rice Cooker

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Easy Greek Lemon Rice In A Rice Cooker

Super easy, very delicious!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Gluten-free, Greek

Keyword gluten free

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 291 kcal

Author Erin Brighton

Ingredients

Ingredients:

• 3 cups basmati rice
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 medium onion sliced
• 5 cloves garlic sliced
• 1 large lemon - zested and then juiced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1 tablespoon fresh dill - more for the top
• Chicken broth

Instructions

1. I rinsed 3 cups of white basmati rice until the water ran clear and then let the rice sit in water while I prepped the other ingredients.
2. In a saucepan on the stove, heat your olive oil. Add the onions and garlic and the salt, cumin, and oregano. Saute. Add the lemon zest and the three cups of basmati rice, drained. Add the lemon juice to the rice and stir it well to coat your rice with the olive oil, herbs, and lemon.
3. Transfer to your rice cooker - or continue cooking on the stovetop.
4. I transferred the very flavorful rice to my rice cooker and added enough chicken broth to go a little higher than the 3 cup mark for white rice.
5. Turn it on! That's it!
6. At the end, I added additional lemon juice and fresh dill. I had read in some places to add additional butter at the end, but I did not do that. It tasted fine! I will definitely try to add butter on another day - I usually don't say no to butter.

This was my first experiment with Greek rice! Any tips???