RICE BOMB

RICE BOMB

Today I would like to write about a recipe almost unknown but which is really appreciated when I prepare it. It comes from Lunigiana area and in the tradition it was a first course, today we can consider it a single course. We can just add in season vegetables as a side.

Ingredients for 6 people:

gr. 500 rice
meat sauce*
3 eggs
1 spoon of capers
1/2 lemon
4 spoons of parmigiano cheese
grated bread
butter
salt

A oven mold for “zuccotto”

Boil half time the rice, let cool then add the liquid part of the meat sauce and mix eggs, cheese, capers and lemon juice. Grease the mold and sprinkle with grated bread. Pour the rice, make a hole and fill with the meat sauce, then cover with the left rice. Top with few butter and grated bread. Bake for half an hour. Seve hot.

*pay attention to the sauce used. We can prepare a quick “ragù” using 400gr meat, 2 sausages and a mix of 2 onions, 3 carrots and 1 celery. Put everything in a pan with half glass of olive oil.

Keep high temperature until the meat starts roasts then pour half glass of wine and low fire. Add 300gr tomatoes. My sauces are never too red or too boiled, let cook for half an hour from the moment you add tomato. A tasty different version is the one using pigion sauce, but you can also prepare a vegetarian version using cheese.