Kateh - Smothered Rice

Ingredients: (4 servings)

basmati or long-grain rice, 3 cups
salt
cooking oil

Directions:

Kateh is normally served with kababs or any of the main dishes in this collection, unless rice is already used as one of the ingredients. Kateh is simpler to cook than polo. We recommend you make Polo when time allows and skip kateh all together which is regarded as a simpler and less delicious rice. Your stews should be served over polo.

Wash three cups of rice with plain water twice and drain the water. Pour rice into a non-stick pan. Add five cups of water, four spoons of oil and two spoons of salt, and mix. Bring the water to a boil over high temperature. Let the water boil until water level sinks to just below rice level. Cover the pan, and cook over low temperature for about half an hour.