Cuban Rice (Arroz a la cubana)

Cuban Rice (Arroz a la cubana)

Again, that's what my family and others call this dish. I don't know if it's name comes from a dish that the "indianos," (the spaniards who immigrated to Cuba and returned to Spain very wealthy,) brought it from Cuba and adapted it to the ingredients they found in Spain.

Sometimes we find ourselves with a pot of leftover white rice, and here comes the dilemma. Should we make a fried rice, should we add something, or should we make a super simple dish with a couple more things? Let's do that simple dish with ingredients that we always have in the pantry.

Ingredients:

Leftover rice (I cook my white rice always with  4-5 garlic cloves)

1 or 2 eggs per person

Tomato sauce (homemade or from a can)

Green Bananas or Plantains.

You should put more tomato sauce on top of the rice

We heat the rice and then we put it in a mold, this could be an espresso cup, or a ring. We crack an egg, put it in a pan, and we cover it with a lid. We check once in a while for the doneness we want. We add the egg to the rice and we add tomato sauce and the fried banana chips or plantains. (Cut the plantains with a peeler lengthwise, and then deep fry.)