Rice Pilaf

I made this rice pilaf the other day to go with some ribs we had.  (Recipe on it's way)  The pilaf wasn't very difficult and was super delicious.  Good bye rice a roni.  The idea for this recipe came from allrecipes.com, but I did some changing.  I added carrots for some color, and then I had actually forgotten to put the chicken stock back in the fridge when I made the Mexican white rice the other day so I had no chicken stock so I subbed out beef stock.  The result was excellent.  You could make this with chicken broth to make a chicken flavored pilaf as well.

Ingredients

• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup orzo pasta (mine is labeled riso but it is the same stuff)
• 1/2 cup white rice (I used long grain)
• 1 carrot chopped fine
• 1/2 cup diced onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 cups beef stock

Directions

1. Melt butter in a saucepan.  Add orzo and stir to coat.  Add onion and saute for about 5 min (until it starts to smell good and brown just a tiny bit.) Add garlic and carrot and rice and stir to coat with butter.  Add beef broth.
2. Bring to a boil.  Cover and reduce the heat.  Cook for 20 minutes.