Rice with string beans in tomato sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products that we will need to cook rice with string beans. Beans can be taken both fresh and frozen.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the carrots, onions and garlic. Cut the pepper into two parts, remove the core with the seeds and the stalk. Rinse the vegetables in clean water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the tips off the beans. If the beans are not very young, then they have stiff tendrils on the sides, which will be felt in the finished dish, remove them.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the carrot into cubes or grate on a coarse grater, as it is more convenient for you. Chop the onion and bell pepper into small half rings or slightly smaller. Cut the beans into fragments of one and a half to two centimeters long (as in the photo).

5. Step 5:

   

   Make a cross-shaped incision on the tomatoes and pour boiling water over the tomatoes. After a minute, drain the water (carefully, do not get burned!).

6. Step 6:

   

   Remove the peel from the cooled tomatoes (after boiling water it will be very easy and simple to do this).

7. Step 7:

   

   Cut tomatoes into small cubes, and chop garlic finely by hand (if desired, garlic can be excluded from the list of products). Prepare the tomato sauce.

8. Step 8:

   

   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, use dishes with high edges if possible. Fry the onion and carrot briefly, stirring continuously so that nothing burns.

9. Step 9:

   

   Add the bell pepper to the pan and fry for about another minute.

11. Step 10:

    

    Next comes the turn of beans and tomatoes. Send them to the vegetables, stir, reduce the heat to medium and simmer under a closed lid for about 10 minutes. Tomatoes should give juice, lift the lid and check if there is not enough liquid from tomatoes, then add a few tablespoons of water so that the vegetables are stewed, and not fried.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour the tomato sauce into a frying pan, add salt to taste, mix everything again, leave for 2-3 minutes, and at this time prepare the rice.

13. Step 12:

    

    Rinse the cereal several times until clean water.

14. Step 13:

    

    Send the rice to the frying pan, spread evenly, make the stove to the maximum.

15. Step 14:

    

    Fill the contents of the pan with water so that it covers the rice by about 1.5 centimeters. Cover with a lid, after boiling, reduce the stove to medium and cook for about 20-25 minutes.

16. Step 15:

    

    During this time, the rice should be cooked, and the water should be almost completely absorbed. Sprinkle the rice with finely chopped herbs.

17. Step 16:

    

    Gently stir the contents of the pan, if there is too much liquid left, add a little heat and, stirring, cook until the amount of sauce you need evaporates. It takes about 1-2 minutes. At this stage, try for salt and add salt, if required.

18. Step 17:

    

    Ready, you can serve!