Savoury Rice

Ingredients

• 20 gm butter or 1 tbsp olive oil
  
• 1 onion/leek/some spring onions, finely chopped
  
• 1 to 3 mushrooms, finely chopped
  
• 1 to 2 sticks celery, finely chopped
  
• 1 courgette/some spring cabbage/runner beans, chopped small
• 1 largish carrot, peeled and grated
  
• 300 gm basmati rice
• twice as much water as rice by volume
  
• 1 stock cube (optional)
• 1/2 tsp salt
  

Method

1. Heat the butter/olive oil in a large frying pan.
2. Add all of the vegetables except the carrot and cook until softened.
3. Boil the water and dissolve the stock cube in it.
4. Stir the rice into the vegetables.
5. Add the stock and salt.
6. Stir again, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
7. Gently stir in the grated carrot.
8. Cover and cook for a further 5 minutes.