Ingredients to make Clarico Rice:
- for 4 people
- 1 medium turnip
- 4 stalks of chard
- 4 artichokes
- 4 garlic
- 50 gr. of lentils
- 50 gr. of white beans
- 300 gr. of rice
- Salt
- Saffron (or coloring)
How to make Light Rice:
- Put the beans and lentils to soak the night before. Clean the vegetables well and chop them.
- Boil the vegetables and legumes in 3/4l of water for half an hour without letting them boil very hard.
- When you see that they are softening, fry the chopped garlic in olive oil and add it to the stew.
- After turning it around with the ladle, bring it to the point of salt and add the crushed and dissolved saffron with some of the broth from the pot.
- Now you need to cook the rice, for which you will have to calculate that the amount of broth in the pot is approximately a little more than a liter (better a liter and a half).
- Here the rice will consume a lot and the stew should be soupy.
- Once the rice is in the pot, take care to stir the stew gently during the first boils, so that the grains are well released.
- Safe cooking times for round grain rice are: 10 min high heat 2 min low heat 3 min off-pot covered 2 min pot uncovered and on to the plates.
- In the Vega Baja del Segura they like to sprinkle a splash of lemon on top that is left to the taste of the diner.
