Recipes: Rice Coke: Isabels Inspirations

Rice with Coke (Four servings)

½ kg. chicken or beef in strips

1 medium onion, chopped

½ cup or 150 grams raisins

½ cup pitted dark olives, halved (optional)

2 cups rice (instant long-grain rice), or for other kind of rice like Basmati or Jasmine follow instructions and use equal parts of water and coke

2 (sodium-reduced) chicken or beef bouillon sachets

2 tbsp cooking oil

1 cup Coke (you may use the light version)

1 cup water

¼ teaspoon white pepper

¼ teaspoon cumin

Preparation:

- Sauté onions in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, or 2 tablespoons of light margarine, until tender for 1½ minutes. - Add meat, 2 sachets of beef or chicken bouillon, pepper and cumin, and fry until cooked, cover and stir occasionally (~5 minutes).
- Add raisins, and olives (optional) and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add coke and water, when boiling add rice and remove pan from heat. (This is for instant rice)
- Cover for five minutes, then stir to distribute ingredients.

· For basmati rice follow instructions from package, add rice altogether with coke and water, cover pan, let liquid boil until almost absorbed (about 10 minutes) and then change to minimum heat for 10 minutes.

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