The Green Rice... of Peru...

Hi Friends,


Today we had for dinner a special entree from Peru. Green Rice is something special. In Peru rice is something essential in daily diet. We love rice and we know a lot of ways to make it a delicious food. It's the perfect complement for almost all of our entrees. So if you go to Peru and go to a folk restaurant, each entree of the Menu has the rice by default. Don't be surprise for that but I think Peruvians are rice eaters in its most.


What I'm going to share now is the green rice. The typical dish is "Arroz con Pato" (Rice with duck literally). But as our family tend to veggie we replace duck (or chicken) with mushrooms. So I'm going to explain how you can make the dish with any of these ingredients. Finally is up to you using duck, chicken or mushrooms. But today we had a deliciuos Green Rice with Mushrooms.

The difference you will find in our recipe for this dish is the process of cooking. As I established at the beginning we will be cooking in a healthy way so we will avoid frying. And rice in Peruvian style is normally a fact of frying dressing. But here is our point, you do not need to fry to get a delicious flavour. Don't believe us? so try and test by yourself.


Ingredients (for 8 servings)


4 cups of white rice long grain


3 onion (1 chopped for the rice and the other two julienne cut for salad)


6 garlic cloves (4 to use in rice preparation and 2 for the mushrooms or bird)


1 bundle of cilantro


1 Green Bell Pepper (1/2 will be blended and half chopped


1 teaspoon cummin


1/2 teaspoon powder black or white pepper


1 teaspoon powder parsley


4 cups of dark beer


2 cups of water


1 1/2 cup of corn kernel


1 1/2 green peas


1 pound of white mushrooms








Preparation

In your regular pot put one chopped onion. When it becomes brown add cumin, pepper, salt and parsley. Add also the corn and the green peas.

Blend the cilantro leaves, half green bell pepper, 4 garlic cloves with one cup of water. Rinse the blender with the other cup of water . Add this to the pot.

Add the rice and the beer to the pot. Mix all in the pot with a wood spoon. Close the pot.

Put the temperature control to "HIGH" until water begins boiling. When is boiling turn temperature to "LOW". Due stoves are not the same, waiting time is normally about 30 - 40 minutes. You should pay atention looking how is the rice and test if it is well cooked.

Mushrooms, (or duck or chicken)

Marinated mushrooms with grounded garlic, cumin, salt, powder pepper and lemon juice (2 lemon).

Put in a pan and slightly roast the mushrooms. Add the mushrooms when rice is ready, mixing with a wood spoon. Add 4 tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to the rice and you are ready.

See, you did not need to fry anythinh but you still have the good fat from olive oil. Great.

The onio salad is simple. Just soak onions with salt and water to reduce the strong flavour it normally has. 45 minutes might be enough. Marinate onions with lemon juive, salt, balsamic vinager and olive oil. See the picture at the start of the page, you can add avocado pieces. I'm sure that you are going to enjot very much this recipe. Then you can share with your friends.

Now Bon Apettit,

Gustavo and Charo