good morning youtube all right today i'm going to show you how to make
dirty rice and boy are you going to be glad that i'm going to do this
it is amazing all right you're going to want to make this one you're going to want to make it
twice three times it's just phenomenal all right let's cook y'all we got a family to feed
all right so we're starting our dirty rice with with the rice all right listen
i use a rice cooker that's just all there is to it it's the easiest thing on the planet and i
knock this stuff out three or four times a week love it if you don't have a rice cooker put it on
the stove bring it to a boil don't take the lid off of it and let it simmer for 20 minutes okay
otherwise just throw it in there and let it do its thing all right so i've got a cup and a half
of just plain old long grain rice okay and rice is a food you cook with ratios it's two to one so
if you've got cup and a half of rice you're going to do three cups of chicken broth because you want
double the liquid all right so to this dirty rice is a very richly flavored dish and so starting
with the rice we're going to add about a teaspoon of kosher salt about a teaspoon of garlic powder
we're throwing a bay leaf we're going to throw in half a teaspoon of crushed red pepper flake
all right this is going in the rice cooker i'm just going to turn it on all right so our rice is
in the rice cooker getting going i've got medium heat over here and we're going to do this next
stage we're just going to like brown some stuff off take out the pan brown something else off
take that out of the pan so we're going to be back and forth a little bit it's fine don't
worry about it all right so you can put olive oil in here if you want i'm using a little bacon
grease because that's how we roll around here if you're horrified by the idea of bacon grease
it's okay it's fine um dirty rice is a food of opportunity all right so i'm
adding about three quarters of a pound of ground pork what do i mean by opportunity
um it was a way to use up food that was often less desirable i have grown up with dirty rice um
having chicken gizzard uh you know when you get a whole chicken and it's got the little tube
of stuff that's the gizzard and the liver off in the neck that's how i grew up with dirty rice lots
of place places you'll see it with a little bit of sausage you'll see a little bit of ground beef
all of those are legitimate y'all so it's a food of opportunity it was a way to make
something delicious out of something that maybe wasn't quite as appealing
as the higher cuts all right so this is all we're going to do we're going to let this brown off
my skillet's not going to heat up fast oh here it comes all right so we're just going to sit
here and stir this until this ground pork is brown all right so our ground fork is cooked
i'm just gonna
slide that right off to the side for a minute all right
the same skillet i got about six chicken livers
you're gonna chop these up after you cook them they're just easier to cook or easier to mince up
once they're cooked okay so this is this step oh there's only three livers in three and a half
ish it's not as much as i thought there were um look
once they've cooked you can just beat them up and don't freak out over chicken livers y'all
it really adds to the depth of flavor in this dish and you're going to chop it up tiny tiny
tiny and so people are really not going to get hit in the face with liver but the
flavor is going to be phenomenal okay so give this a couple minutes get those cooked through
and that's our next step all right this is exactly what we want i'm going to get you right up in the
pan because i want you to see you see how it almost caramelizes come on like that see that
that that's what you want okay and this is also why we're working in the same skillet
you want to keep all those flavors all right so we're setting the liver over here
because we're going to um chop it fine sorry about the bottom of my
pan there we go one of these days i'll learn how to do everything backwards
all right so in our same skillet the trinity okay so an onion one bell pepper two stalks of celery
and that's going to go in here with about four fat cloves of garlic
and i'm going to add at this point where to put my salt
about two teaspoons of kosher salt okay
so this is going to get five or six minutes just to get those vegetables softened and fragrant
perfect all right our veggies let's see see nice and soft really fragrant and then you
see this beautiful stuff down here on the bottom of that skillet don't okay this is a
nonstick skillet so you don't want to take a metal instrument and scrape all that up whoa
hang on get a phone call all right sorry about that it was not those i tell you
i'm still doing doctor's appointments for five kids my mother and my sister sometimes my niece
although not not not too often um and myself and then you have the cats and the dogs and
i get medical reminder calls two or three times a day okay so i'm just gonna throw in a little
bit of chicken broth just to help loosen up a little bit of that beautiful brown bits high boom
little brown bits on the bottom of the pan
and here we go all right so here is our sausage browned off
we're putting that right back in there with all of its juices you want that flavor
and here is look how fine i chopped up that chicken liver
food is home because we
we're quarantined we got our vaccination back in april and then my little girl i got this summer
and [Music] kids went back to school and sure enough two weeks ago they came home vaccinated
and positive for coping so we've been a quarantine bone's negative luckily nobody's been really sick
so i am not complaining just explaining why my children are home in the middle of the day okay
dried oregano a lot of dried oregano i love it i think it is phenomenal
i probably have a full tablespoon and then a good two teaspoons of dried thyme
i'm putting in a good teaspoon of black pepper
now we did have a little bit of red pepper flake that we cooked into the rice and because we
cooked it with the rice it will really that small amount will really help perfume the entire batch
we're going to add about half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper
be careful with cayenne pepper it can really take your head off and so we want some
but we don't want our food to be dangerous okay so here we are
and from the amount of steam coming out of my rice cooker the rice is almost cooked
and that is our final stage so i'm going to turn this down we're just waiting on
the rice cooker to sing all right a rice is done so i'm gonna pull the bay leaf out
and here is what we look at you can see a little bit of red pepper flake and then here i have a
big handful of fresh parsley that i minced up and a little bunch of green onions okay this
is the final little hoo-ha all right so that is so hot i really wish i wasn't holding it
ouch you're really just going in here and by the time you've gotten to this
stage you have such a beautiful rich hearty dish dirty rice really is not a side dish
there you go
just stir it all together i'm going to
hold off a little on my parsley my green onion just to make it pretty
and get stirred all in here together
bird is stalking cause he knows i'm cooking dirty rice child loves rice
there we go guys tell me how easy that was other than a few minutes just standing and stirring
it really is almost no effort okay how do we do here
we should pretty much have an explosion flavor
pretty good huh
oh man
phenomenal sometimes i surprise myself man that's good
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