Rice with Ground Meat in Tomato Sauce – One-Pot Dish
This is a quick and simple one-pot dish – rice with ground turkey and mushrooms, simmered in an aromatic tomato sauce. Perfect for lunch or as a filling for tortillas, crepes, or piadina, and it tastes even better the next day when it thickens.
Prep: 15 min
Cook: 30 min
Total: 45 min
Yield: 3 serving
Published: July 21, 2025
Tags
Main CourseOne-Pot MealStudent-FriendlyEasy
Ingredients
- 100 gram white-rice
- 1 piece onion
- 2 clove garlic
- 0.5 piece bell-pepper
- 6 piece mushroom
- 200 gram ground-turkey
- 1 can canned-tomatoes
- 2.5 teaspoon tomato-paste
- 1.5 cup chicken-stock
- 40 gram yellow-cheese
- 2 tablespoon rapeseed-oil
- 1 to taste salt
- 1 to taste black-pepper
- 1 to taste sweet-paprika-powder
- 1 to taste hot-paprika-powder
- 1 to taste basil
- 1 to taste oregano
Tools
- pan
- spatula
- knife
- cutting-board
- bowl
Instructions
- Dice the onion, press the garlic through a garlic press, and cut the bell pepper and mushrooms into pieces.
- In a heated tablespoon of rapeseed oil, sauté the onion until translucent, then add the garlic, bell pepper, and mushrooms. Fry for a few minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the vegetables from the pan onto a plate and wipe the pan with a paper towel.
- Pour another tablespoon of rapeseed oil into the pan and heat well. Add the ground turkey, season with salt, pepper, oregano, sweet and hot paprika. Fry until the meat is browned.
- Add the sautéed vegetables, dry rice, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, and chicken broth to the browned meat. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Bring to a boil, cover, and cook over low heat for about 30 minutes, until the rice absorbs the liquid. If needed, season to taste with salt, pepper, and herbs.
- Finally, sprinkle with finely chopped yellow cheese, cover the pan to let the cheese melt. Serve hot.
Serving suggestions
Serve warm on its own or as a filling for tortillas, crepes, or piadina.