Rice is one of the most consumed carbohydrates in the world. It’s very versatile; it can be prepared in both sweet and salty foods and is also used to make drinks such as “chicha”, to make vinegar or even liqueurs such as rice liquor.
But today I come to give you a simple recipe for rice with meat and vegetables. This recipe can easily be modified to suit each individual, if the person is a vegetarian, he can leave only vegetables to his liking, and if instead he prefers it with meat, he can use fish, beef, pork, chicken, hen and even farmhouse meat.
To make it, you only need to cook your favorite rice as usual and move it away from the fire just before it completely softens while waiting for your vegetables or meat.
The ingredients I use are:
- 2 cups of rice.
- 1 chicken breast.
- ¼ cup of zucchini.
- ¼ cup of patata.
- ½ paprika.
- 1 sweet pepper.
- ¼ cup of a small, sliced cabbage.
- ¼ onion.
- 1 large piece of garlic
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.
- Salt to your liking.
- ¼ cup of basil.
- ¼ cup of oil.
- 1 branch of Spanish celery, coriander or your favorite herb in the kitchen.
Preparation:
Chop the onion into julienne strips and the garlic into small pieces and place them in a hot frying pan with a little hot oil. When the onion starts blanching add all the other vegetable ingredients, which are chopped into small pieces to the cook’s liking. You’ll know when to do this because the onion will start to smell delicious.
Leave it in the pan with some salt, basil leaves and your favorite spices for 15 minutes.
The chicken breast is then cut into small squares, sauté with some salt and the proper spices. Then reserve it to add to your rice along with the other ingredients.
After the vegetables have about 15 minutes of preparation, it’s added along with the chicken (or meat that you prefer) to the rice that is separated and semi-hard.
Once all ingredients are added to the rice, some soy sauce is placed and then everything is covered for 15 more minutes. After tasting it to make sure it has enough salt for your liking, it will be ready for you to remove it from the heat and for eating. Or if you prefer, it can be put away to eat it the next day, reheated with ¼ cup of water.
I hope my rice with vegetables and (or) meats recipe is to your liking.
I also make many times for lunch rise with meat and vegetable.You put chicken in rise but I can not because my husband does not eat chicken.I will try your recipe when he will not be home on lunch.