Red Bell Pepper Rice with Feta and Bacon

This dish started with a Google search: Red Bell Peppers and Rice. The first thing that popped up was a vegan dish, a very bland one I thought after reading through the ingredients list.

Then I looked for vegetarian: Feta and Ayvar came up. Sounded good to eat. While I was looking through my fridge to find the Feta, I came across a package of smoked ham cubes, good until next weekend.

Now vegetarian was out and the cooking started.

The rice was cooked in veg stock in the rice cooker on the side.

Recipe for 2:

1 rice cooker cup Jasmine rice

2 tsp homemade veg stock paste

Water

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2 red bell peppers

2 tiny birds eye chilis

6 cherry tomatoes

125 g smoked ham bits

1 tbsp oil

2 tbsp ayvar

1 tbsp tomato paste

2 green onions, 1 shallot, 2 garlic cloves

100 ml wine

150 ml water

2 tsp veg stock paste

Salt, pepper, paprika, smoked paprika, herbes de Provence

Fresh parsley

Chop the ingredients first - Mis en Place

In a deep pan heat up a little oil and toss in the ham. After 3 min add onions and garlic and chili. Give them 3 min more.

Tomato paste next and stir it to cook a bit. Season. All other veggies in now and the Ayvar. That needs 3 min to cook.

Wine and stock to simmer a little and then add the cooked rice and the broken up Feta. Stir well until everything is combined. Check the seasoning again.

Finish with chopped parsley.