Spicy Rice Casserole

Ingredients

• 200 g Long grain rice
• 2 tbsp plant oil
• 400 ml meat broth
• 1 small onion
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 clove of nutmeg?
• 200 g cooked ham
• 250 g small zucchini
• 1 tsp chopped thyme
• nutmeg
• black pepper (ground)
• Salt
• 100 g grated Gouda cheese
• 3 eggs
• 200 ml whipping cream
• fat (for the dish)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Bring broth to a boil. Add onion with nutmeg, bay leaf and rice; simmer for about 20 minutes until rice is cooked. Remove onion.

2. 2.

   Wash zucchini and cut into fine strips. Cut ham into fine strips. Heat oil in a pan, add zucchini strips, season with thyme, nutmeg, pepper and salt, and sauté for 5 minutes.

3. 3.

   Combine rice, ham strips and zucchini.

4. 4.

   Preheat oven to 150°C. Grease a baking dish.

5. 5.

   Mix eggs, cheese and cream; fold into the rice mixture. Pour into the baking dish and bake for 15 minutes until golden.

6. 6.