Spanish Style Rice Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 lb Mushrooms, sliced 4 tb Margarine Salt & pepper 2 tb Sweet wine or sherry 1 sm Onion, chopped 1 ea Garlic clove, minced 2 tb Olive oil 1 1/2 c Long grain rice 1 md Breen bell pepper, diced 4 md Tomatoes, chopped 3 c Hot water 3 ea Whole cloves 1 ea Bay leaf 1 ds Cayenne Parsley for garnish

Directions:

1. Saute mushrooms in 2 tb margarine for a few minutes.
   
   
2. Add salt & pepper. Cover & remove from heat.
   
   
3. Saute the onion & garlic in the oil & remaining margarine. Raise heat a little & add the rice, stirring till well coated. Add green pepper, tomatoes, hot water, cloves, bay leaf, cayenne, mushrooms & stir.
   
   
4. Cover, reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes. Add wine after about 10 minutes. Remove cloves & bay leaf & sprinkle with parsley before serving.
   
   
5. Vera Gewanter, "A Passion for Vegetables"
   
   Yields 4 Servings