Ingredients to make Rice Cake:
- 300 grams of rice
- 250 grams of minced beef
- 150 grams of mozzarella
- 100 grams of frozen peas
- 20 grams of dried mushrooms
- 2 small sausages
- 6 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 onion
- 1 cup of flour
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons breadcrumbs
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 1 cup of olive oil
- Pepper
- Salt to taste.
How to make Rice Cake:
- Soak the mushrooms in water, peel the onion, chop it and fry it in a pan with 1 tablespoon of oil for 4 minutes, add the drained mushrooms and the peas and continue cooking for 5 more minutes, water with a ladle of hot water mixed with the sauce of tomato.
- Add the sliced sausages, mix and cook for 10 minutes, then remove the sausages and set them aside, mix the minced meat with 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of Parmesan, salt and pepper and 1 tablespoon of breadcrumbs, prepare meatballs the size of flour a walnut and fry them in a pan with the remaining oil until they are well golden.
- Introduce half of the pea and mushroom sauce in a saucepan, add the rice, cover with water or hot broth, twice as much water as rice, stir and cook for 18 minutes, remove the rice from the heat and transfer it to another container, mix the rice with the remaining eggs 2 tablespoons of Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon of butter grease a high-walled mold with 1 tablespoon of butter and sprinkle it with a tablespoon of breadcrumbs, introduce 3/4 parts of the rice into the mold and with a little bit of a wooden spoon adhere it well on the walls.
- While heating the leftover pea sauce with the reserved meatballs and sausages, pour the sauce into the center of the mold and gently tap the container on the work table so that the sauce settles and adapts better, add the diced mozzarella and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan cover with more rice and level it with the back of a spoon and sprinkle with breadcrumbs and the remaining butter in small pieces cook in a preheated oven at 180o.C. Let it cool down for 35 minutes before unmolding it on a plate.
