Rice cake with tuna and tomato

This rice cake with tuna and tomato is a recipe that brings back many memories of my childhood. It was a dish that I loved and always told my mother to make it.

Summer memories of endless hours at the pool or at the beach, which made me have a huge hunger and getting to the table and finding this “cake” as my mother called it, was an immense joy. I was very greedy as a child and I still am, but now with control 🙂

It is a very simple and complete recipe that you will see will be one of those dishes that you like and that you will include in your list, ”one of the most demanded at home”.”

INGREDIENTS:

• One cup of round white rice
• Two cups of water
• 2 cloves garlic
• A dash of olive oil
• Salt 
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 cans of canned tuna in olive or sunflower oil
• 200 gr of homemade fried tomato
• 2 eggs
• A squeeze of lemon
• Sunflower oil
• To decorate: a grated egg and olives, or cherry tomatoes, a few basil leaves, sweet corn...

STEP BY STEP RECIPE:

1. I do it like this: peel two cloves of garlic and slice them. Put a splash of olive oil in a saucepan and heat. Brown the garlic and be careful not to burn them.
2. Add the rice and stir. Add the water (always double the amount of rice), the bay leaf and a teaspoon of salt and turn up the heat, when it starts to boil lower the heat to medium and let it cook for 18 minutes. When it takes 15 minutes lower the fire and put the lid on. Leave it like this until it finishes and until you are going to use it.
3. Boil an egg for 12 minutes with a pinch of salt.
4. Line a cake pan with parchment paper.
5. Put two fingers of white rice on the base and press lightly with a spoon.
6. Mix three cans of tuna (drain the oil first and reserve it) with homemade tomato sauce. Spread it over the rice.
7. Put another layer of rice on top, press again and cover and set aside in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight.
8. Turn the mold over, remove the paper, cover with homemade mayonnaise. To make it, put an egg, a dash of lemon juice and a pinch of salt in a blender or mixer, and the oil drained from the cans. Whisk and add sunflower oil little by little, until you see that the mayonnaise thickens.
9. Grate a hard-boiled egg and add black olives.

Ready! You will see how this rice cake with tuna and tomato will be the star dish of the summer.

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With all my love,

Mireia Alum