Name: Rice & Vegetable Pilaf
Yield: Serves 6 as a side dish, or 4 as a main meal
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons chopped parsley; 150 g(5½ oz) button mushrooms, diced; 1 small red pepper (capsicum), diced; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 1 teaspoon sweet paprika; 1 small red onion, chopped; 1 small leafy celery stalk, diced; 30 g(1 oz) butter; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce; 250 g(9 oz) tinned diced tomatoes; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 300 g(10½ oz/1½ cups) long-grain rice

Preparation info

Serves
6
as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Apples for Jam

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2010

About

Adults can add a few shakes of Tabasco sauce to this tasty rice. It can be made in advance and served warm or at room temperature, alone or with a dollop of thick, natural yoghurt. This could nicely accompany a grilled chicken dish, or fish. Once all the vegetables are chopped up finely no-one will be at all suspicious of them, but if you think you won’t get away with serving these to your children, then leave out the mushrooms and peppers.