Friday 24 April 2020

Main Course - Rice with sausages and vegetables - 30 minutes



Ingredients for 4 People

  1. 240g riz cuit à l'avance - rice cooked in advance (80g uncooked rice)
  2. 2 merguez - merguez sausages
  3. 2 chipolatas - another type of sausages
  4. Huile d'olive - Olive oil
  5. 2 cuillères à soupe de concentré de tomates or ketchup - 2 soup spoon tomato puree or ketchup
  6. 30g de miel ou 150g de sauce soja - Honey or soja sauce
  7. 2 carottes - Carrots
  8. 1 échalotte ou 1 petit oignon - 1 shallot or 1 small onion
  9. 4 feuilles de chou - 4 leaves of cabbage (whatever)
  10. 200g de feuilles d'épinard ou pousses d'épinard : fresh spinach
  11. Piment d'espelette
NB : You can use additional vegetables, you can also cook other vegetables, than the one mentioned.

Directions

Prepare all the ingredients
(The smaller the pieces, the quicker it is cooked).
  1. Cook the rice if not done already
  2. Cut the sausages in small pieces (see the video)
  3. Prepare the quantity of tomato puree or ketchup in a bowl
  4. Prepare in another bowl the honey or sauja sauce
  5. Peel the carrots and cut them in small pieces
  6. Peel the shallot or the onion and cut in small pieces
  7. Cut the cabbage leaves in small. TIP : roll them before like a cigar, as shown in the video
  8. Wash the spinach if necessary
The cooking
  1. In a pan or a wok, with some olive oil or any vegetable oil, when hot put the sausages and cook until nice colored and switch the heat off.
  2. In another hot pan or hot wok with oil -or in the same one, but remove the content with the sausages first- put the shallot first. Some minutes later, add the carrots, and a little later the cabbage and the spinach and cook until nicely cooked (faire fondre les légumes, melt the vegetables).
  3. Mix the rice, the honey and the tomato puree. Add salt and some piment d'espelette. Heat if necessary.
  4. Add the sausages part with the sauce in the pan with vegetables and mix.
  5. Add the rice part to the vegetables and sausages and mix.
It's ready, enjoy and have a nice meal.

The broadcast is in French, but you will also be able to see how the Chef is doing.   
In the video, the Chef uses less vegetables, it's really up to you.