Savoury baked rice

This is the perfect dish created from leftovers for a Sunday night easy meal. Grab some cooked rice and eggs, add some tinned tomatoes and off you go!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup brown rice

    cooked

  • 1/2 tin chopped tomatoes

    from a 400g tin

  • ½ cup fresh mozzarella cheese

    grated

  • 2 eggs

  • extra virgin olive oil

    for drizzling

  • parmesan cheese

    freshly grated, for sprinkling

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Eggs

Equipment

  • 1 oven
  • 1 ramekin dishes

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C conventional or 160°C fan-forced and lightly grease a couple of ramekin dishes.
  2. Mix rice with tomatoes and season well with salt and pepper. Divide mixture between the two dishes and crack eggs into each one.
  3. Push mozzarella into rice around dish edges, keeping the egg whole in the middle. Drizzle with olive oil and place in oven for 20 minutes or until egg is just cooked.
  4. Sprinkle generously with parmesan and drizzle with a little more olive oil. Serve with some warmed bread.

Notes

Tip
No mozzarella to hand? Try crumbled feta instead for a salty kick.
Tip
Serve with some warmed bread.
Variation
You can stir pretty much anything through the tomato and rice mixture. Try chopped spinach, toasted pine nuts, chopped olives and/or crumbled, cooked sausage.

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