Rice in tomato sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make rice in tomato sauce? To begin with, prepare the products that you will need to cook rice in tomato sauce: rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil for frying, salt and spices. Of course, you can only do with tomato paste, but spices really decorate simple dishes. Changing spices and seasonings, every time, we will get a new taste. This time I decided to add garlic, ginger and chili pepper to the rice for piquancy.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take one cup of rice. Rice is suitable for any variety, round-grain or long-grain is not essential, you can even take steamed. From this, only the cooking time and the proportions of water will change. For 200 grams of long and steamed rice, you need to take 450 ml of water and cook for 18-20 minutes. For short rice, you need 400 ml of water, cook the same amount. Brown and wild rice is cooked for 45-50 minutes, you need to take 500-575 ml of water. Rinse the rice well and dry it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour a little vegetable oil into a saucepan or a small saucepan. Add finely chopped garlic. Fry the garlic for a few seconds.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the ginger and chili pepper. Chop everything finely and warm it in oil until a bright aroma appears. Strongly browning vegetables is not necessary.

6. Step 5:

   

   Add tomato paste. Stirring, warm up until the oil turns red for about 3-4 minutes

7. Step 6:

   

   Add rice, salt and spices to taste.

8. Step 7:

   

   Stir until the rice is evenly mixed with the tomato toasting.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour in the required amount of boiled water and cook the rice over medium heat until the free liquid is absorbed from the surface of the rice. Then reduce the heat to a minimum, cover with a lid and let the rice cook for another 3-4 minutes. Then turn off the stove and leave the rice under the lid to walk for 10 minutes. Serve the rice in tomato sauce hot, sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.