Cooked this easy yet delicious recipe for dinner today. If you like tomatoes, this is highly recommended.

Ingredients:

• 200g medium onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 bag pepper mix
• 2 tbsp mild olive oil
• 1 tbsp tomato puree
• 300g brown rice
• 800g tinned diced tomatoes
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 0.25 tsp chilli flakes
• 600ml water
• 240g sardines in sunflower oil
• 10g fresh parsley

Directions:

Chop the onions and finely chop the garlic. Clean the peppers and cut into 1½ cm pieces.

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and fry the onion and garlic for 1 min. on medium heat. Add the tomato puree and pepper and fry for 3 min.

Add the rice, diced tomatoes, cumin, chili flakes and warm water and bring to the boil. Simmer gently on low heat for 35-40 min.

Season with salt if necessary.

Drain the sardines and reserve the oil. Divide the sardines into pieces and finely chop the parsley. Divide the sardines and parsley over the rice and sprinkle with the sardine oil.

Original Source (in Dutch): https://www.ah.nl/allerhande/recept/R-R1200874/tomatenrijst-met-paprika-en-sardines