This one's the base of your average brazilian meal. "You'd get tired of eating anything if you ate it every day" this is proof that's not true. Pretty much everyone that has the habit of eating a normal lunch that I know from here eats this almost every single day, and I'm one of them, the key however is to make a good rice and also like, not eat JUST rice...
With this portion you can serve up to [like 3 I think] people. It can take from 30 to 60 minutes [my guess]
Rice: duh 1 cup (200ml)
Garlic: 3 - 4 cloves fun fact in portuguese we call these "garlic teeth"
Cooking Oil: idk a bit
Salt
Water
[Optional] Onion: 1/4
0. Fill a kettle with water and leave it heating up, this will save time while you get other ingredients ready.
1. Peel and chop the garlic into tiny little pieces, the smaller pieces tend to fry and burn before the bigger ones, so the more evenly chopped they are the less likely you are to get any of them uncooked or burnt
2. Put some oil [specify how much] on the pan and turn the fire on high. After it heats up for a bit, deploy the cut garlic and with a wooden spoon or other similar utensil spread iton the pan. Keep stirring the garlic around from time to time until you notice they start to golden.
3. Once you do, put the fire on low and add the rice, then the water from the kettle. Add water until it's about the width of two fingers together above the rice line. Now you can turn the heat back up.
4. Now you have to add salt to it, usually a little more than those spoons for stirring coffe should sufice, but add to it and do taste tests until you feel is just a little salty or you feel it's right.
5. Last step guys! After some time the water should be below the rice line, when that happens turn the heat down and put a lid on the pan for 10 minutes, once that's up your rice is ready!