Showing posts with label Tomatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tomatoes. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2015

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!