Tomatoes with Rice
A baked Bulgarian dish of rice cooked in a fresh tomato and pepper sauce, topped with grated kashkaval cheese.
Ingredients
| 500 g | tomatoes | |
| 2 | red peppers | |
| 2 | onions | |
| 1 cup | 240 ml | rice |
| 1 | stalk fresh garlic | |
| 100 g | kashkaval cheese | |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | red pepper (paprika) |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | sugar |
| — | black pepper | |
| — | parsley | |
| — | salt |
Instructions
Sauté the chopped onion and garlic in vegetable fat. Add the finely chopped peppers and sauté them too. Add the grated tomatoes. Season, salt and stir. Simmer this sauce for 5 minutes. Add the rice and stir. Pour in 3 cups of hot water, stir and leave to boil for about 5 minutes. Transfer the dish to a baking tray and place in a preheated oven. Bake until the liquid is absorbed.