Buttery red clover rice with lemon

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  • Prep time:5mins
  • Cooking time:25mins
  • Recipe serves:4

Red Clover grows everywhere, even in the city, you may recognise it as a common weed. It is available around the world and it is totally edible from flower down to root - cool hey! It can be used as food and as medicine. Red Clover is an amazing source of many valuable nutrients, it is said to be wonderful for women - especially for breast health and it is used for hot flushes, PMS and lowering cholesterol. Try this simple and delish rice dish if you have not eaten clover before. Harvest on a warm, sunny afternoon and you could even get the kids involved!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups water 
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice 
  • 2 teaspoons butter 
  • 1 cup brown basmati rice (wild rice or millet would be great also) 
  • 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
  • 1 teaspoon zested/grated lemon peel 
  • 1-2 cups of red or white clover blossoms and leaves

Method

  1. In a medium saucepan, bring water, lemon juice and butter to a boil. Add salt and stir in brown basmati rice and finely zested lemon peel. Reduce heat...cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes or until the water is absorbed.
  2. Before serving, sprinkle with red or white clover flowers (plucked out of their flower pockets) and leaves, In reference to the blossoms, don’t select any brownish ones. You want young and fresh, whether white, pink or red clover is way better tasting to us Weedeaters - bright, vibrant and young!