Preparation time: 10 minutes. Ingredients: One cup of Deroni rice boiled in salted water, a diced tomato a large diced cucumber, two peppers of different colors thinely sliced, black and green olives, few canned asparagus, vinegar (or lemon), olive oil, chopped parsley. Method of preparation: I Boil the rice and cool it in the refrigerator. Meanwhile cut all the vegetables and prepare the dressing for the salad, mix all together and add pepper to your taste. Let the flavor of the ingredients merge with the rice, add pepper then let it cool in the fridge and serve it cold. As a summer salad, you can add sardines and with the oil from the can, anchovies or smoked fish. Serve it as dinner in the summer days or as the first dish at lunch.
Mexican Rice
Preparation time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: 200 g Deroni rice with long grain, 2 minced scalded tomatoes , 4 cloves of garlic, 1 carrot, 1 sweet pepper, 200 ml of vegetable soup, oil, salt, pepper, coriander. Method of preparation: Boil the rice and let it drain. Mash the scalded and peeled tomatoes together with the chopped onion and garlic. Cut the carrot into thin rings, slice thinly the sweet pepper. In a pan, heat oil in a pan and add the rice and the carrot rings. Leave to fry for several minutes. Add mashed tomato, onion and garlic, sweet peppers and 200 ml of vegetable soup and let it all boil until it dries, about 20-25 minutes over a medium heat. Serve with chopped coriander (or parsley) and butter croutons.
Mexican sauté of seafood on a bed of rice
Preparation time: 25 minutes. Ingredients: frozen mixed seafood, Deroni rice with long grain, butter, pickled capers, fresh lemon juice, semi-dry white wine, tomato juice, oregano, finely chopped onion and garlic, black olives without stones, lemon, salt, white pepper. Method of preparation: fry the seafood (such as frozen) in a pan with butter, onions, garlic, oregano, capers. When they soak, baste the preparation with bit of white wine and add tomato juice, lemon juice, salt. Mix and let it under fire until the sauce thickens. Boil the rice, using the ratio of 1 / 2 (at a quantity of rice, place 2 quantities of water). Add salt and pepper until the rice is done. The preparation is assembled as following: in the middle of the plate place a bed of boiled rice (use an appropriate stainless steel circle). Place the seafood sauté on top, under the shape of a little cube. Adorn all over the preparation with round lemon slices, chopped parsley and sliced olives.
Mexican Croquette with rice
Preparation time: 60 minutes. Ingredients: 200 g Deroni rice with long grain, 2 eggs, 100 g Parmesan cheese, 50 g sheep pressed cheese, 200 gr. flour, 200 ml oil, a scoop of thick sour cream soup, a table spoon of bread crumbs, a table spoon rasped nutmeg, salt, pepper. Method of preparation: Put rice in boil in salty water. Filter it and put it aside. Rasp the parmesan cheese and sheep cheese. In a bowl, beat the eggs for the omelet, and then incorporated them boiled rice and the two kinds of cheese. Add the salt, pepper, nutmeg, and sour cream. Mix well the composition, and then mould it in the shape of croquettes. Roll them in flour. Heat the oil in a frying pan and put the croquettes to fry. Serve them hot, accompanied by a vegetable salad.
Fried Mexican Dumplings with rice
Preparation time: 60 minutes.
Ingredients: 50 g raisins, 2 tablespoons of sweet wine, 750 ml of milk, 1 / 2 spoon salt, 250 g Deroni rice with round grain, 1 orange, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 lemon, 70 g sugar, 50 g crushed almonds, 1 spoon with flour, oil (butter), powder sugar. Method of preparation: Soak the raisins in the wine and let them sit all night. Put on the fire the milk and add salt, after the ebullition, pour the rice (little by little). Let it to swell under low flame, stirring all the time then put aside to cool. Rasp the orange and lemon peel, and incorporate it in rice. Then add yolks, butter, 50 g sugar, crushed almonds and raisins including the wine and mix well. Mix roughly the yolks until it results a foam, add 20 g of sugar and flour and incorporate them in rice. Heat the oil or butter (170 °), take a scoop of rice each at a time (as a dumpling) and push with another spoon in the hot fat and fry until it becomes nice and golden in color. Now take the dumplings and lay them on an absorbent paper. After that place them on a plate and powder them with sugar.
Mexican rice with the liver
Preparation time: 30 minutes.
Ingredients: 400 g of Deroni rice, 150 grams of chicken liver, a small onion, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, a spoon of butter, red wine, 2 tablespoons of tomato juice, salt. Method of preparation: cut the livers in small pieces, wash and clean. Then, cut small onion and fry it in oil. Add the pieces of liver until they slightly change their color. Sprinkle them with red wine and let it evaporate. Pour the tomato juice and the salt and leave it for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, boil the rice. Mix with the pieces of livers, add butter and mix well.
Mexican rice with milk and egg
Preparation time: 15 minutes. Ingredients: 125 g of Deroni rice, 100 g of sugar, 3 / 4 l milk, 20 g butter, 3 yolks, cinnamon, peel from orange. Method of preparation: Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water and then wash with cold water.
Boil the milk adding cinnamon and the orange peel, after 5 minutes add the rice, after 10 minutes put sugar and let it boil until rice is soft and creamy. Mix smoothly the yolks and add them after you take the rice off the flame and the same with the butter, mix well and place it on the plates.
Mexican white rice
Preparation time: 60 minutes. Ingredients: 2 mugs of Deroni rice, 5-6 cloves of garlic, spaghetti, salt Method of preparation: Brake the pasta in small pieces (about three) and put them in hot oil. Immediately add garlic cut in small cubes. Leave it for 5 minutes until the color turns brown, then add the rice and wait 30 seconds. Add water (double the quantity of rice). Serve as garnish.
Paella
Ingredients: 2 cups of Deroni rice, 1 medium onion, 1 carrot, seafood, peas, corn, 1 canned mushrooms, salt, pepper, oregano, curry, olive oil Method of preparation: Put in a pot with a bit of oil: the chopped onion, rasped carrot, mushrooms and rice. Wait for 5 minutes until becomes brown in color, add the seafood and 4-5 glasses of water. Spice it with salt, pepper, oregano, curry leave it under a low flame until the rice is boiled. Serve hot.