Arroz A La Cubana

I consider myself quite lucky. The other day, I sat down with husband Melvene and told him straight up that I do not receive any gratification whenever I wash dishes but I do enjoy cooking.

No, I'm not that really a kitchen person, or a chore person for that matter. Growing up with maids has its perks, but not particularly helpful especially when you're about to start making a home for yourself. I'd say I'm a seasonal cook. I would then cook when I felt like it, maybe 10 times in a year. Yes, I know, that seldom. For the turnaround, these past 4 days, I've been waking up to cook for me and my husband - breakfast, lunch, dinner. Not that I'm complaining. Because really, I'm just grateful that I'm not washing the dishes.

So here's my first stint in cooking Arroz A La Cubana, which means Cuban rice. But this is a Spanish dish: white rice, egg, banana, and tomato sauce.

Arroz A La Cubana
1 tbsp garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion
1/4 kilo ground beef
2 tomatoes
200g tomato sauce (I used Del Monte)
1/4 cup raisins (soak this in water)
2 tsp liquid seasoning (I used Knorr)
3 saba bananas
Sunny fried eggs
salt, pepper, sugar to taste

1 Throw in garlic then onions in a heated pan. Then the ground beef until the color changes. Put in potatoes then cook for 2 mins. The tomatoes and tomato sauce for another 3 mins.
2 Shoot in the raisins, add the rest of the ingridients. Then simmer for 10mins.
3 On a separate pan, I fried the saba and the egg.

It took me around 30 mins to do. Pretty easy promise. Oh pardon the egg. I'm still trying to work my way around the induction cookpan. :)