Serves: 4 as a main, 6 as a side
Prep & Cooking: 20-30 minutes
Ingredients:
- ½ leek (or 1 onion, red or white)
- 100-150g mushrooms
- 2-3 cloves garlic
From the cupboard:
- 10 olives
- 200g rice
- cooking oil
- ½ teaspoon mild curry powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- soy sauce
- salt to taste
Method:
- Fry the rice with mild curry for a minute. Add boiling water (1 part rice to 4 parts water) and leave to cook. Just before it’s ready add the olives.
- Roughly chop the leeks and mushrooms and stir-fry for about 5-10 mins. Add paprika, dried basil and soy sauce while stirring. Remove from the stove and mix with crushed garlic.
- You can either mix the the mushrooms with the cooked rice or serve them on top of a bed of rice. Serve with parmesan (optional).
Recipe and image by Pavlina.