Juicy rice dish with bacon and tomato

After discovering a lot of vegetables from my fridge, I decided to improvise a juicy rice dish. Turned out to be pretty good and was very easy to make. For two persons you will need:

200 g risotto rice

6 slices of bacon

1 bell pepper, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 2 fresh tomatoes and half zucchini

250-350 ml vegetable or chicken broth

0.25 tsp pepper

2 tbsp soy sauce

 

# Chop bacon, onion, carrot, bell pepper and zucchini.

# Fry bacon until tender (not crisp), remove from pan and drain.

# Place bacon slices into a saucepan, add sliced onion, carrot and bell pepper and simmer for 7-10 minutes. Add rice and continue to simmer until rice turns golden.

# Pour half of the broth into the saucepan and add sliced zucchini, pepper and soy sauce. Stir constantly, so that the rice would not burn. If the dish seems dry, add more broth. 

# Cut tomatoes into sectors, add the saucepan and simmer it for another 15 minutes, or until the rice is soft. Then place the dish to a hot plate and enjoy!

This dish is very colorful and since there is more vegetables than there is meat, I think it might be pretty healthy as well. At least that’s what I kept telling myself after the second portion…

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To all my friends who for some reason do not speak Estonian but would like to understand how my cooking is done – I try to start translating my posts. I will take a while once I get everything online, since I haven’t found any Estonian-English translation service online yet, so…But I’ll do my best. Enjoy cooking and please do comment, if you have tried something.