Rice is a universal grits. It is great for preparing both main courses and sweet desserts. True, the average housewife is more familiar with dishes cooked in the usual way over an open fire. Pilaf, rice porridge, pickle soup
Is it possible to cook something tasty, but easy to perform in the oven? The answer is yes! There are many similar recipes. And many of them do not require special culinary talents.
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Rice is a universal grits. It is great for preparing both main courses and sweet desserts. True, the average housewife is more familiar with dishes cooked in the usual way over an open fire. Pilaf, rice porridge, pickle soup
.Is it possible to cook something tasty, but easy to perform in the oven? The answer is yes! There are many similar recipes. And many of them do not require special culinary talents.
Mushrooms with rice in pots
A tasty dish does not have to be time consuming. For example, cooking mushrooms with rice in ceramic pots takes, on average, 50-60 minutes (of which 40 are baked in the oven).
To create a fragrant lean treat you will need:
- a pound of mushrooms;
- somewhat medium sized onions;
- 1 large carrot;
- one and a half glasses of rice;
- a small head of garlic;
- half a glass of fat cream or, in their absence, liquid sour cream;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 4-5 tablespoons of sunflower oil (preferably odorless);
- greens - dill and (for those who like the pungent smell of dishes) cilantro;
- and, of course, spices - ground pepper, salt, seasonings for mushrooms.
Wash the rice and cook. While it is cooking, peel and cut the vegetables. Chop the onion in half rings, and rub the carrots on a coarse grater or cut into thin strips.
Mushrooms first need to be washed with warm water, recline on cheesecloth and wait until they dry out. Only then can you cut it. There is a little trick here: a special taste in mushrooms is preserved when the finished pieces are large enough in size and do not spread into shapeless porridge. Therefore, champignons and oyster mushrooms are best cut thin, half a centimeter, but wide plates. Porcini mushrooms, aspen, boletus - cubes a centimeter and a half in size. And it’s better not to shred small mushrooms of all sorts, just to separate the hat from the leg.
If you use green greens, also wash and finely chop it in advance so that you do not waste time later. Stir it with boiled rice. Peel the garlic and set aside - it will be needed later.
When everything is prepared, the mushrooms must be fried in vegetable oil, making a big fire. Add onions when the mushrooms are slightly browned, carrots - after a few minutes.
Now you can put goodies in a pot. At the bottom of each - a little vegetable-mushroom mixture, on top - rice. Stick 1-2 cloves of garlic into the surface (be sure to squeeze them so that they do not protrude outward). In hot water, dilute salt and spices and fill the pots 2/3 of the height. And put the dish in the oven for 40 minutes. The optimum temperature is 180 ° C.
10 minutes before cooking, remove the pots, put a cube of butter in each on top of the rice and pour a little cream on top (2-3 tablespoons, no more). And return to the oven to bake.
The finished dish looks even more representative than in the photo. But there is still a crazy mushroom aroma, against which no one can resist! In a word, this recipe is a good choice not only for a small home feast, but also for hosting important guests. From the specified number of products, 4 to 8 servings are obtained (depending on the size of the pots).
Pumpkin casserole
Rice makes very tasty sweet dishes. For example, since childhood, your favorite milk soup. What about the oven? With its help, you can make amazing food - rice sweet cake with pumpkin.
You will need:
- half a glass of rice, sugar and chopped walnuts;
- 400-500 grams of pumpkin;
- 3 large eggs;
- some salt;
- 5 tablespoons of softened butter;
- as well as lemon zest and a pinch of vanillin.
Rinse thoroughly and set to cook (it is not necessary to add salt). In the meantime, beat the egg yolks with sugar, stir in the same oil, zest and nuts. It is quite possible to do without adding vanillin, but with it the taste and smell will be more "festive". Next, rub the pumpkin on a coarse grater and mix it with rice.
Proteins will have a separate task: they need to be beaten with a mixer to a magnificent mass. Once this is done, gently mix all the ingredients and mix everything thoroughly.
Now the resulting mass must be laid out in an even layer in a baking dish greased with butter. Put a few more slices of butter on top of the future pie. It takes 40 minutes to cook, and it is better to preheat the oven more than usual - up to 200 ° C.
Sweet fragrant pumpkin pie is ready!
Hello from childhood: tender rice casserole
Remember what an incredibly tasty meat casserole was given in kindergarten for lunch? She literally melted in the tongue! Rarely did anyone succeed in repeating this taste in their kitchen. Meanwhile, the clue lies not in some "secret" ingredients, but only in the method of preparation.
So, to make a delicious rice casserole, take:
- a pound of minced meat (any, the meat variety does not play a role at all);
- 1 glass of rice;
- 1 large carrot;
- the same weight - onions;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- and, of course, your favorite meat seasonings.
Grind vegetables: carrots with a grater, onions - in small cubes (the smaller, the softer the taste of the finished dish will be). Fry them over medium heat in enough oil.
To get the “same” delicate taste, you need to forget how to make an ordinary casserole. The delicacy "like in a kindergarten" is not laid out in layers - and this is the main trick that our mothers did not know about.
Mix minced meat with rice in equal proportions (if there is more rice, leave it better, otherwise it will clog the taste of meat). Beat eggs thoroughly with sour cream and pour them into the minced meat. In fact, the casserole base is ready. It remains only to salt and pepper it, mix thoroughly again and put on a greased baking sheet.
After 40 minutes, the dish is ready! Just remember: you can cut a casserole only when it cools down a little, otherwise it may fall apart.