Tomato & Bacon Rissotto

Tinned toms,cheap bacon…Really tasty & comforting…

Ingredients

• Tin of toms
• Ketchup
• Rice
• Onion
• Stock cubes
• Butter or cooking oil.
• Mixed herbs
• Ground Cumin
• Ground Coriander
• Tomato Puree
• *wine
• bacon
• *Veg of choice e.g. spinach

Instructions

STEP 1:

1 Chop and fry 1 big fat onion and 2 cups bacon with butter &/or oil, stirring when necessary til bacon cooked and maybe just a teensy bit browned. A large non-stick pan is best.

STEP 2:

2 Add a pinch of each of the mixed herbs, coriander & cumin and continue stirring gently for a minute or so.

STEP 3:

3 Add 3/4 cup rice per person (this serves 2-3)and stir til rice starts to go clear.

STEP 4:

4 Make pint of stock with 1 or 2 stock cubes (chicken or ham are best) plus 2 teaspoons of tomato puree. Stir well and add a cupful to the rice. Add a sloosh of wine if you like at this point too.

STEP 5:

5 When the stock has disappeared (keep stirring making sure it doesn’t stick) add the tin of tomatoes and another cup of stock. Cook and stir til it’s absorbed.

STEP 6:

6 Keep adding stock followed by water if necessary until the rice is cooked. With the last liquid I often add a cup of chopped spinach/mange tout/kale.

STEP 7:

7 Add a squirt of ketchup,salt and pepper and stir for the last time. Enjoy the creamy tomatoey goodness with salad or bread or whatever you think. We sometimes add some parmesan too.