Tomato Rice

In Egypt, we eat rice almost everyday. Maybe that's why we have many different rice dishes.

Ingredients:
1- One cups of Egyptian rice or basmati rice.
2- One small onion, diced.
3- One garlic clove, mashed.
4- Two tablespoon of oil.
5- Two tomatoes, diced.
6- One cube of chicken/vegetable broth.
7- One tablespoon of tomato paste.
8- One teaspoon of salt.
9- One teaspoon of cumin.
10- A bunch of fresh parsley and cilantro, chopped.
11- 1 ½ cups of water.

Preparations:
1- In a deep pot, heat the oil, fry the onion and garlic for 2 minutes, then add the diced tomato and stir well.
2- Add the broth and rice, stir well.
3- Add the salt and cumin.
4- Add the chopped parsley and cilantro. Stir well.
5- Add the water, the water should cover the rice.
6- bring to boil.
7- reduce the heat. and cover the pot.
8- Cook until done. Taste the rice to see if it's soft.

Be Al-hana We Al-shafa!

Turmeric Rice

In Egypt, we have so many different rice dishes, the most common one is Egyptian white rice cooked with fried vermicelli. Turmeric rice is the second most common and it is very delicious.

Ingredients:
1- 350g of basmati rice.
2- 50g of unsalted butter.
3- 500ml water.
4- One teaspoon of salt.
5- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
6-One cinnamon stick.
7- A dash of ground cardamom.
8- One teaspoon of turmeric.

Preparations:
1- In a heavy bottomed pot, mix all of the ingredients together. Cook on medium heat, uncovered. Bring to boil and make sure that the butter melted.
2- Stir the rice for few seconds. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for 6 minutes.
3- Remove from heat. Keep the lid on for 5 more minutes.
Serve hot. Served as a side dish with fish.

Be Al-hana We Al-shafa!