Rice with swiss chard

[NY Mixer]

Name of Recipe: Rice with swiss chard
Number of People: 4-6
Ingredients:

150 gr swiss chard
100 gr potato
100 gr carrot
100 gr olive oil (I put 50 gr)
100 gr white beans cooked
1 tsp paprika
200 gr rice
1 litre water
Salt


Preparation:

Put in the Thermomix blender the chard, potato and carrot, in that order. Chop during 4 sg v4 each, adding one after another. After that add the olive oil and 5 min Varoma temperature. When it’s about to finish (the time) add the pimenton. Add the water and salt, 20 min varoma temp, spoon velocity. When its all done check out the salt and cook for 15 min the rice (25 min if its brown), 100C spoon velocity. When 10 min are left add the beans. Let it rest 2 min and eat!

Please let me know how your dinner went... All my friends love this dish

[Thermomixer]

Once the rice is added I think that it should be cooked in Reverse + speed soft (spoon) ?  Like risottos.

[Katya]

I made this yesterday as I found some Swiss chard in a local market.   I definitely would tweak it if I did it again:

1.  It needs some stock rather than just water as it is very bland.   I also think it needs more than 1 tsp paprika (pimenton)

2.  I think the vegetables don't need to cook for 20 minutes - so I would cook them for less (and use less water to compensate)

3.  The amount of water means that it is quite soupy at the end - no bad thing but it really needs to be served on its own rather than as a side dish

4.  I did use  as Thermomixer suggested - the beans (tinned haricot beans) still disappeared into a mush, but did contribute to the taste

[Thermomixer]

From memory Katya - this was from a Spanish site and somebody has translated it.  It is soupy.

You will find lots of recipes in Spanish - try Googling Arroz con acelgas

http://www.canalcocina.es/receta/arroz-con-acelgas
http://recetas.mundorecetas.com/receta4523-Arroz-con-acelgas-Thermomix-.html&4410
http://verdurasparatodos.blogspot.com/2007/12/arroz-con-acelgas-en-thermomix.html

Videos (in Spanish) here http://vorwerk.com/es/thermomix/html/videoteca.html#videoteca_1