Spanish Rice

I call this 'Spanish rice' but I think the name is a misnomer from childhood.

This is not common in Australia so I make it more than I used too as a 'bring a plate'.

This dish keeps for a long time and transports easily.

It can also be made early in the day, and re-heated to serve, so I make it when we have people over for burritos, or something in the Mexican food vein.

I have also taken this camping twice, and it kept well for days in a cooler no problems.

 

Here is my recipe.

I make about 3/4 of a cup of rice and twice that water and add it to our rice cooker. I let the rice finish before I do anything else.
I boil about a 1/2 cup of water and add some vegeta or any time of vegetarian dry soup making mixture- but vegeta is my first choice. I set this aside.

I then take a tablespoon of olive oil, and about just one clove of chopped garlic and heat that.

Then I add in about 3 chopped tomatoes (no seeds or core)

As many peas as I can get my hands on

 (I used all ripe peas from our garden)

I put in about as much carrot, and again I just use what is on hand, here we have the small variety of carrots, so I just cut them and it was as if they were already diced, you want the pieces to be about pea size

I saute the carrots just for about 3-minutes, then I add the tomatoes and the peas for just about another 3 minutes

Then I add in the cooked rice

After I mix it all through

I start adding in the vegeta mixture slowly- and I keep stirring until the consistency seems pleasing.

 

So easy, even I can make it.