Lemon Rice with Hummus
Spinach Pesto
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Ingredients
4 servings
300 g2
2
200 g
50 g
1 Brown rice
Aubergines
Red bell peppers
Hummus
Almonds
Lemon (juice & zest) 400 ml
2 tea sp
1 tea sp
1 TBL sp
1
2
15 g Bouillon (vegetable)
Cumin
Turmeric
Thyme
Onion
Garlic cloves
Fresh coriander or parsley
Make it a dinner party🎉
Instead of adding the aubergines and bell pepper to the pan, roast them in the oven (20-30 min at 200°C) and add them at the end. You can also replace cumin, turmeric, and thyme with za’atar.
Prep
10 min
- Dice onion and mince garlic
- Cut aubergines into 1-2 cm pieces
- Cut red bell peppers into 1-2 cm pieces
- Rinse the rice with cold water
Cook
25 min
Sauté onions, aubergine and bell pepper
on medium/high heat until the aubergine is soft ~8 min
Add garlic, lemon zest, thyme, cumin, and turmeric
turn down the heat and season with salt and pepper ~3 min
Add rice and bouillon
first add the rice and then add the bouillon, add more water later if the rice cooks dry without being done, keep the lid on ~10 min
Meanwhile, chop the almonds and cut coriander/parsley
Turn off the heat and add plenty of lemon juice
let it sit with the lid on to steam the rice ~5 min. Add lemon juice, taste and add more if needed, season with salt & pepper
Serve rice with hummus, almonds and coriander/parsley
One of the better recipes on the calendar! Used 250g of brown rice instead of 300g (mostly because I have 500g pack) and added a bit of nuts/vegetables to compensate.
Hi Markus, we hope you like the others too 😉 but of course everyone has their favorites!
I made this and found it was a wonderful meal for one person, with enough left for a very nice lunch tomorrow. But I made several changes and it still worked well: I reduce the quantity by half, I used basmati rice because that’s what I had on hand, are used the water in which I parboiled 4 vegetables last night so I increased the salt since this was not actually bouillon. I used za’atar and two snack peppers plus one espelette pepper from my garden because the bell peppers are not yet ripe. All of this worked quite well, although it was more than I expected, and I had to leave it a bit longer. Bell peppers would have been better. And instead of almonds, I used apricot seeds, which worked very well. Thank you!