Rice with Fava Beans

Ingredients

• half a kilo rice
• to taste meat
• 3 cups fava beans
• ghee
• salt
• black pepper
• 2 cups short-grain rice
• 1 cup long-grain rice
• for soaking warm water
• for washing cold water
• 3 cups hot water
• a little nuts

Instructions

1. In a soaking bowl, place 2 cups of short-grain rice and 1 cup of long-grain rice, and soak them in warm water for about half an hour to three-quarters of an hour.
2. In a colander under cold running water, wash the rice well until the cloudy water disappears and the water runs completely clear.
3. In a colander, drain the rice completely of its soaking and washing water once it is ready to cook.
4. In the cooking pot, add the ghee—said to be about 3 tablespoons—and leave it until hot.
5. In the cooking pot, add the meat to the hot ghee, then add salt and black pepper and stir the meat until cooked.
6. In the cooking pot, add the fava beans over the meat once the meat is cooked, then add a pinch of salt and a pinch of black pepper and stir the fava beans with the meat.
7. In the cooking pot, remove the cooked fava beans and meat and set them aside, keeping the ghee in the pot.
8. In the cooking pot, add the drained rice to the ghee in which the meat was fried, then stir it with the ghee.
9. In the cooking pot, add 3 cups of hot water to the rice, because the quantity of rice stated by the chef is 3 cups of rice.
10. In the cooking pot, add 1 tablespoon of salt, or a little less, to the rice water. Leave out the black pepper at this stage so the rice does not darken in color.
11. In the cooking pot over high heat, leave the rice until its water dries up.
12. In the cooking pot, when the rice water has dried up, cover the pot and reduce the heat to the lowest setting so the rice can finish cooking by steaming.
13. In the cooking pot, after the rice is cooked, add the previously fried fava beans and meat on top, then stir the ingredients together.
14. In the cooking pot over the lowest heat, leave the rice with the fava beans and meat for about 5 minutes only, until the flavors meld without keeping it on the heat too long.
15. On a serving platter, serve the rice with fava beans and meat hot.
16. On a serving platter, a little nuts may optionally be added over the rice.
17. On a serving platter, add a light pinch of pepper when serving.