Cook with Clément !

Yep, every person that knows me, even a little, knows I like good food! Well, I think the best way to get some quality meals, it's to cook them yourself. Tonight I've been preparing some great stuff and I'd like to share with you my kitchen secrets...

Cooking with Clément ! For cheap and tasty meals.
Tonight, the "Potée à la dinde et son riz pourpre" as I call it or "Turkey casserole and it's purple rice".

Cooking time : Around two hours. But you need to be around cooking only about 20 minutes (depending on how blazing fast you are!).
For that particular meal you have think ahead a little bit.
You will need for the casserole:

1. some turkey left overs (could surely be replaced by some chicken breasts).
2. 2 carrots
3. 1/2 Onion (the big white ones, if it's a small one, then I guess all of it)
4. 1 garlic clove (une gousse d'ail)
   
5. 1 sweet potato

For the rice:

1. 33cl of rice
2. 10cl of red wine (yeah!)
3. one teaspoon of olive oil
4. one teaspoon of salt
5. one tablespoon of soy sauce
6. 1/4 of an onion

Cooking instructions

The casserole:
Start by cutting the carrots in slices (not thin, about 1cm long), rince and peel your sweet potato and cut it in slices too.
Now cut your onion in half. If you don't feel like crying, there are several techniques, more or less efficient. You can manage to cut the onion next to a window so that the air blows away the nasty onion's gas, you can also cut it underwater, and there is one thing that I noticed, it's better to use a sharp knife to cut it gently. Yeah, it's horrible when you cut these guys with a knife with teeth, it messes the pulp and creates more emanations. Nasty stuff !
So cut that god damn bulb into thin slices and then cut those in half. You can do it. Now that you've been weeping like a young girl because you didn't care about my safety advices, you can put all of that stuff you chopped into a saucepan. Then fill the pan with water until the vegetables are almost completely covered. Add some turkey pieces in the pan. Cut the garlic clover into small chunks and add them. Add one teaspoon (cuillère à café, 5cm³) of salt and one of olive oil. Let it cook slowly on low heat for two hours. Normally when it's done the vegetables and the meat are very tender... Pretty good.
Ok that looks like vomit, but it's good !!

While the casserole is slowly cooking on its own, you can have a fresh carrot raw, if you are starved. Plenty of good vitamins.
You can start preparing the rice 1 hour and a half after.

The rice:
Start by cutting some onions, then pour the rice into a pan, just like on the picture on the left. Add one teaspoon of olive oil, the onions and heat. Be careful not to burn the rice, it's pretty smoky.
I know, that sounds crazy, but do as I say... Wait for the rice to become golden, or brown and then pour your 10cl of red wine in the pan, right on the super warm rice !! Yeah, be careful, it might be spectacular depending on how hot the pan is. Your rice turns purple... Original look, plus it adds a little frenchy touch to the taste. Now that you have a "Sauté" of purple rice, you want to cook it, so, pour 1.5 times the amount of rice in water in the pan (normally 33cl of rice is contained in a regular glass, so add one glass and a half of water into the pan, yeah I'm a math genius). Cover the pan and let it cook on full heat during 10 minutes.
It's ready ! Let it cool off and serve, I recommend having some regular water with that dish, yeah, not too much fantasy. Plus it's better for you.

Thanks for reading "Montana Clem" and I hope you enjoy your meal !
Just like we did :

-Clément