rice casserole


Description:
My parents are in Bandung right now for some big family gathering celebrating two freshly graduated cousins from the elephant institution. Since my mother is not around, I as usual am taking care of kitchen department.We had so many rice left over and something need to be recreated from them aside from fried rice, which I already made this morning. So I looked into my mother recipe collection from Femina in 80’s edition and found this rice casserole recipe. I “healtified” it a bit by adding mixed vegetable, two cloves of garlic (for elevating immunity level) two slices of smoked beef, which I julliened first and two sliced hard boiled eggs. The recipe is kind of complicated but the result was so good!

Ingredients:
2 cups of cooked overnight rice
2 cups of mixed vegetables (green peas, carrots, green bean, sweet corn kernels)
1 sachet of corn/mushroom cream soup, dilute as the instruction
2 slices of smoked beef, sliced thinly
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
2 cloves of garlic, chopped finely.
salt and pepper for seasoning,
2 eggs, boiled, then sliced evenly
two tablespoons of margarine, melted.
two tablespoon of cooking oil/olive oil preferably.

Directions:
Sautee garlic until fragrant then add smoked beef. Cook until the beef crispy.
Add sauteed garlic and smoked beef and the melted margarine into the rice. Mixed thoroughly.
Add the veggies to the instant cream soup, let it simmer for awhile, add salt and pepper.
Butter non-stick loaf pan with butter.
Put the rice mixture then pack it tightly
Arrange sliced boiled eggs over the rice.
Pour the soup mixture slowly.
Top it with cheese and bake it for about an hour in 200 degree C oven.