September 18, 2014
Arroz Con Tomate A La Roteña (Rice With Tomatoes “Roteño” Style) by Pilar Ruiz / You can find more of her recipes at comomegustacocinar.blogspot.com This week we are going to prepare a typical Rota dish “Arroz Con Tomate Roteño”, or Rice with tomatoes “Roteño” style, since we are going to use ingredients from the Rota farms to cook this nice recipe, green peppers and home made tomato sauce with tomatoes from Rota too. You will see how tasty this dish is and how easy it is to make. And besides, it’s very healthy. We are sure you will enjoy it very much By the way, if you have a special wish about any recipe you would like to learn to Cook, please let us know. My mother and I will cook it for you in this section. You can contact us at pilaraprendiendoacocinar@gmail.com Have a nice week and here you have the recipe: Serves: 6 Preparation Time: 30 minutes Difficulty: Easy INGREDIENTS: • ¼ Kilo (2 ½ cups) rice • ¾ liter (3 ¼ cups) vegetable broth (onion, garlic, green pepper, carrots, etc.) • ½ liter (2 ⅛ cups) home made tomato sauce (récipe as follows) • 3 Tablespoons olive oil • ¼ kilo (9 oz) frying type green Peppers, the long, thin peppers, not bell peppers • Salt and pepper (to taste) HOW TO PREPARE: • We are going to start by frying the green pepper in a frying pan on medium heat with olive oil. Then, we let them drain on a plate with absorbent paper and set aside • Then, in the same frying pan on medium heat, we add the home made tomato sauce, the uncooked rice and then we stir for a couple of minutes to mix both ingredients • We add the broth, add some salt and pepper to taste, and let it cook for 10 minutes, at médium heat • 2 or 3 minutes before finished, we add the fried green Peppers to the rice mixture. • We finish cooking, remove from heat and let the dish sit for 2 or 3 minutes before we serve at the table. To take into account: If we notice it needs more liquid, we will add more broth Enjoy your meal
Homemade Tomato Sauce This is the way we cook the homemade tomato sauce at home . You can use it for many recipes, such us Huevos a La Flamenca (the recipe from last week), Pasta, Fried Potatoes and Eggs, … ! Once you make it you can not stop eating it ! It tastes delicious! INGREDIENTS: * 1 kilo (2.2 lbs) fresh tomatoes, crushed * 1 medium onion * 1 green bell pepper and 3 green frying peppers * 1 garlic clove * 2 or 3 tablespoons olive oil * Salt and Black pepper * pinch of sugar * some cooking cream HOW TO PREPARE: * First of all we are going to chop the onion and green Peppers in cubes. Dice the garlic clove. * Then we are going to fry the onion in a large frying pan on medium heat with the oil, then we add the garlic and to finish with add the green Peppers. * We fry these three ingredients together, stirring occasionally and then when they are cooked, we add the crushed tomato. Then we add some salt and a pinch of sugar and we keep on cooking, continuing to stir occasionally. * Once we see it is cooked (10 minutes approximately on medium heat), we are going to use a food mill or vegetable strainer to separate the pureed, cooked vegetables from the creamy tomato sauce. Discard the pieces of vegetables that don’t pass through the strainer. * And then we are going to stir in a dollop of cream so that our tomato sauce gets smoother
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