Rice with vegetables, the basic recipe
Rice with vegetables, the basic recipe
Here is the typical recipe for rice with vegetables: in paella and with peppers, green beans and peas. But, as you will see below, there are many versions and it serves as the basis for many other rice or salad recipes.
- Ingredients: 350 g of bomba rice - 1 ½ l of vegetable broth - 1 red pepper - 1 green pepper - 3 tomatoes - 80 g of green beans - 50 g of frozen peas - 1 clove of garlic - rosemary - paprika - white wine - olive oil - salt.
How to do it step by step
- Heat the broth. Wash the peppers and green beans. Clean both and cut the first into cubes and chop the second. And peel and mince the garlic.
- Heat three tablespoons of oil in a paella pan. Sauté the garlic for half a minute and add the peppers. Continue cooking over medium heat for 5 minutes, until they start to brown.
- Wash the tomatoes, cut them in half and grate them. Add them to the sauce along with the beans and a sprig of washed rosemary. Season, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
- Water with half a glass of wine and let it evaporate. Stir in the peas, rice, and half a teaspoon of the sweet paprika. Toast the rice for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly, and cover with the boiling vegetable broth.
- Adjust salt and cook for 18 minutes, over low heat and without stirring. During cooking, lightly shake the paella from time to time, holding it by the handles, so that the rice does not stick. Turn off the heat, cover and let it rest for a few minutes before serving.
- An original touch. To give it a special flavor, you can add a handful of currants along with the peas and rice. It gives you a sweet spot that suits you super good.
Rice with vegetables and artichokes
Rice with vegetables and artichokes
It is also very tasty with artichokes. You can add them along with the peppers. To prepare, remove some of the outer leaves, cut off the tip and base of the stem, cut into 8 pieces, and wash.
- So that the artichokes do not oxidize, while you are not using them, immerse them in the water with lemon. Discover more recipes with artichokes.
Soupy rice with vegetables
Soupy rice with vegetables
If you don't like it to be so dry, as is usually done in paella, you also have the option of making it broth.
- To make it soupy, make the sauce in a deep saucepan, add a little more broth, let it cook for about 25 minutes covered over low heat (the time may vary depending on the type of rice you use), and serve it immediately on plates deep; don't let it rest.
Rice with vegetables and chicken
Rice with vegetables and chicken
Another very typical recipe for rice with vegetables is with chicken. This way it serves as a unique dish and, by adding protein, you make it a very satisfying recipe.
Step by Step
- Clean the chicken, dry it with kitchen paper and chop it into bite-size pieces.
- Brown it on all sides in the paella with a little garlic and remove it.
- Add it again with the rice, peas and broth when the sauce is done.
- If you want to enhance the flavor of the chicken, you can use chicken broth instead of the vegetable.
Rice with vegetables with tofu
Rice with vegetables with tofu
Another way to get a unique dish without having to resort to animal protein is to make rice with vegetables with tofu onions, one of the easiest and most delicious vegetarian recipes. To make this recipe in a last minute plan, you can throw in a glass of pre-cooked rice and a bag of washed and sliced vegetables and mushrooms.
Step by Step
- Saute the veggies on one side.
- On the other, fry onion and, when it is golden brown, add some cubes of tofu and sauté them together with a little soy sauce.
- Then, you just have to mix everything in a bowl and that's it.
Tofu, made from soybeans (a legume), is one of the classic ingredients in vegetarian cuisine to replace meat and fish. Here are more recipes with tofu.
Rice with vegetables and prawns
Rice with vegetables and prawns
Although it is not the most orthodox of all, the typical oriental three delights rice is still a rice with vegetables. Normally, it has peas, carrots, tortilla and prawns or chicken. This we have made with peas, corn and zucchini cubes, which also suit him very well, and some sautéed peeled prawns.
- If you want it to be looser, you can make a white rice, and then add the boiled or sautéed vegetables, the prawns or some cooked prawns, and a little soy sauce.
Eggplant stuffed with rice with vegetables
Eggplant stuffed with rice with vegetables
In addition, as it lasts well for several days, rice with vegetables is a dish that fits wonderfully whether you are looking for meals to take to work or to make several preparations if you opt for batch cooking (cook suddenly one day so as not to have to cook the rest of the week), and gives a lot of play in the so-called "safe food", kitchen of use.
- Good idea. For example, you can use a rice with vegetables that you have left over to make stuffed aubergines. More recipes with aubergines, here.
Rice salad with vegetables
Rice salad with vegetables
And of course it is the perfect base to make any rice salad.
- How to do it. Put vegetable rice with a little tuna belly in a greased flanera to give it shape. Then, turn it over and decorate with grated egg, sprouts, slices of radishes on top, and some lamb's lettuce on the plate. It is one of the quick and easy recipes for when you don't want to complicate your life.
