South African Yellow Rice with Raisins

Ingredients:

250 ml uncooked, parboiled rice

1 litre boiling water

30 ml yellow sugar

1 piece of cinnamon

5 ml salt

30 ml ground turmeric

125 ml seedless raisins

15 ml butter or margarine

Cooking Instructions:

Wash rice. Add all the ingredients to the boiling water, except the raisins, butter and sugar. Add rice slowly to boiling water and cook for about 20 minutes over high heat. Drain the water and steamcook the rice with the raisins and cinnamonstick for 1 hour over boiling water. Remove the stick of cinnamon and mic in the butter and the sugar. Serve warm with bobotie.

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