Recipe - Rice With Pork And Peppers

One half cup Spanish olive oil
1 pound Lean pork ribs and loin or
boneless chicken meat
2 Red or green peppers
2 Cloves garlic
2 Ripe tomatoes
3 Sprigs parsley
1 pn Saffron
One half teaspoon Sweet paprika
Salt
5 cup Hot water
14 ounce Mediumgrain rice

Cut pork or chicken into bitesize pieces. Wash, dry, seed and cut pepper
into strips lengthwise. Peel the garlic cloves. Wash, peel and chop
tomatoes. Wash and chop parsley.

In a paella pan heat oil over moderately high heat and saute meat until
browned on all sides. Remove meat from pan and transfer to side plate.

In pan drippings, fry whole garlic cloves until golden and transfer them to
a mortar. Add peppers and saute for 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and stir
to combine. Mash fried garlic cloves with parsley and saffron in mortar.

Add garlic mixture to cooking peppers and tomatoes and let simmer for a few
minutes. Stir in One half teaspoon sweet paprika. Return meat to pan and stir in
5 cups hot water, pinch of salt and cook for 20 minutes. Adjust seasoning
if necessary.

Add rice and cook on high heat for 10 minutes. Lower heat to medium low and
cook for another 8 to 10 minutes. Taste a few grains of rice to verify that
the it's cooked through but al dente. It should also be "soupy", not dry,
so add a little more hot water if necessary.

Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Yield: 4 servings

NOTES : Cooking Live

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8833

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #505 by Angele Freeman jfreeman@netusa1.net
on Mar 8, 1997.