What to cook with rice if you're tired of pilaf: 2 original dishes

Pilaf is a delicious dish with meat, spices, vegetables, and, of course, rice as its main ingredient. But very often you want to cook something unusual, light, and tasty from the same ingredient, and it is quite possible to do so.

The FoodOboz editorial team has put together a selection of 2 rice dishes that you can easily prepare for a hearty and delicious lunch and dinner.

1. Spicy rice with spicy sausages according to Gordon Ramsay's recipe

Ingredients:

• rice – 4 tbsp.
• meat broth – 8 tbsp
• sausages – 2-3 pcs
• onion – 1 pc
• oil – 1 tbsp
• sweet pepper – 1 pc.
• tomato – 1 pc
• greens – a small bunch
• paprika – 1 hour
• garlic – 2 cloves
• wine – 1 tbsp
• salt – if desired

Method of preparation:

1. Finely chop the onion, pepper, tomatoes.
2. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan and fry the vegetables well until they become golden and soft.
3. Then chop the sausages and add them to the vegetables, mixing everything well.
4. Be sure to add paprika and chopped garlic.
5. Pour in the rice, wait 30 seconds, and pour in the wine, stir, and when the wine has evaporated, pour in the meat broth, add salt to taste, and stir.
6. Chop the tomatoes and green onions, add to the finished dish, and serve.

2. Risotto with beets according to the recipe of Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi

Ingredients:

• Arborio or Carnaroli rice – 100 g
• shallots – 1 pc
• olive oil – 15 ml
• broth – 400 g
• dry white wine – 35 g
• butter – 14 g
• Parmesan cheese – 40 g
• Gorgonzola cheese – 50-70 g
• baked pear – 4-5 pieces
• beet juice – 100 g
• thyme

Method of preparation:

1. Pour olive oil into a frying pan, heat, add rice and a peeled onion. Stirring constantly, warm the rice slightly.
2. Add the wine and evaporate it.
3. Then add 1 ladle of hot, unsalted broth in 4-5 doses.
4. Bring the rice to a boil for about 18 minutes, stirring with a wooden spatula, until some of the starch is released from the grains, which will become the basis for the sauce.
5. Pour in the evaporated beet juice for color, namely, mix the beet juice, wine, and thyme, add the mixture to the rice, stir, add the butter, and remove from the heat.
6. Grate the Parmesan cheese and add it to the rice, making sure that nothing sticks to the bottom.

Before serving, add a few slices of pear and gorgonzola.