Saturday, April 21, 2012

Is this Arabic rice?


No. This is just another ordinary flavored rice, this is the same like fried rice of Asia, nasigoring of Indonesia, bit like paella of Spain.

Very easy to cook. We just need the following:

Oil, bay leaves, chop garlic, chop onion, diced carrots and potato, salt and pepper, and tomato paste for flavor and coloring, rice of course.

1. In a pot sauté the carrots and potato with garlic and onion.
2. Add the rice, roasted it a little bit.
3. Add some water, The same quantity like the rice.
4. Put salt, pepper and tomato paste according to your taste.
5. Let it cook for about 20 minutes.


There are different way of cooking of this rice. You can cook it in the rice cooker, in the oven, or even in the traditional wood fire.

With the rice cooker you just need to sauté the vegetables in the pan or wok and then transfer it to the rice cooker, add the rice, water, tomato paste and seasoning and cook it like normal rice cooker procedure.
We need to sauté it first to get the maximum flavor from the vegetables.