Ingredients
* 700g long-grained rice (orez lung)
* 75ml (6 tbsp) oil [preferably olive oil] (ulei, de preferinţă de măslin)
* 50g butter (unt)
* 1 medium-size onion, finely chopped (ceapă medie, tăiată mărunt)
* 700g meat (carne): 500g veal meat for stew (carne de viţel pentru bulion) and 2 big sausages (crenvurşte), cut into pieces (tăiate bucăţi)
[otherwise choose your favourite meat: pork meat for stew (carne de porc pentru bulion), chicken or pigeon (carne de pui sau hulub) - deboned (a separa carne de oase) after cooking in the sauce and their giblets (măruntaie de pasăre) also if you like them]
* 250ml tomato puree (piureu de roşii)
* 2 eggs (ouă)
* 150g cheese, grated [preferably Parmesan cheese] (caşcaval razuit, de dorit Parmesan)
* 220ml milk (lapte)
* 220ml water (apă)
* Breadcrumbs (faramituri de pane)
* Cubes of butter
* Salt and pepper (sare şi piper)
* Optional:1 handful dried porcini mushrooms (o mână de ciuperci, hribi uscaţi), soaked in a cup of tepid water (lăsate într-o cană cu apă caldă) for 30 minutes, well drained (bine uscate), minced a little (mărunţite puţin), to put in the saucepan (cratiţă) at the same time that you add the meat.
Instructions
1. First make the sauce. In a large saucepan, heat the oil and the butter, add the onion and cook until the onion is soft and translucent but not brown, then sauté the meat and the sausages on all sides for about 3 minutes.
2. Add the tomato puree and water, salt and pepper. Let this come to the boil, cover and simmer until the meat is cooked, then take out the meat and put it on one side.
3. Meanwhile in salted water partially boil the rice (7 minutes), drain and when it’s cold add the sauce described above, the milk, the eggs, the Parmesan cheese. Blend all the ingredients and add salt and pepper to your taste.
4. Oil well a non stick mould, then sprinkle breadcrumbs on the bottom and sides.
5. Pour into the mould one-half of the rice mixture, then add the pieces of meat and sausages (which have been removed from the sauce.)
6. Cover with the other half of the rice and flatten the surface with a spatula so that the two layers of rice come together
7. Sprinkle more breadcrumbs on the surface and put on the cubes of butter
8. Bake on the middle shelf of a moderately hot oven at 180° C for about 50 minutes, until the crust is golden brown. Take the mould out of the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
9. Turn out on a platter and serve the BOMB cutting it into big slices (one per person).
This serves 8 people.
E o porţie pentru 8 persoane.
