We replaced the pasta in the famous recipe with rice and we simply fainted at how delicious it is - voila! Food

2022-12-14T05:47:47.641Z

Do you know the recipe for the hit Taktuk - baked feta pasta with cherry tomatoes? We tried it with rice and just swooned at how delicious it was. Go to the recipe and try it yourself>>

Every once in a while the web is stormy and excited because of a recipe that manages to sweep countless hungry surfers after it.

Almost two years ago, this was the famous recipe for pasta with feta cheese sauce and cherry tomatoes, which we also tried and fell in love with.

The trick is simple

- put cherry tomatoes in the oven with a nice cube of feta cheese and roast until the tomatoes and cheese soften and burn a little, mix together and you get a rich and wonderful sauce.

Even at the technologist

Olga Tochsher from

the recipe blog Secret Ingredient, this recipe has since become a household item, so what happened when she got tired of the pasta?

She simply made it with rice, and the

result

- probably the tastiest rice you will ever eat.

Rice with cherry tomatoes roasted in the oven with feta cheese (photo: Gal Zahavi, styling: Yael Magen)

Ingredients

For rice:
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup Persian rice
- 2 cups of boiling water
- a little salt
For the roasted tomato sauce and feta cheese:
- 30 cherry tomatoes
- 200 grams feta cheese
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- Kurtchbabi chili (optional)
- ½ cup dried oregano
- 1 handful of chopped fresh herbs, according to what you like (basil leaves/parsley/coriander/dill)
For the conversion table click here >

Preparation

How do you make rice with feta and roasted cherry tomatoes?

1
Prepare the rice:
heat the oil in a pot, add the rice, mix and fry for about a minute while stirring.
Add the boiling water and salt, mix, lower the flame and cook covered for about 15 minutes, or until all the water is absorbed, and the rice softens.
Remove from heat and leave covered for another 10 minutes.
2 In the meantime, heat the oven to 200 degrees.
3
And now for the sauce:
sprinkle the cherry tomatoes in a Pyrex dish, pour the olive oil over it, add the garlic, salt, pepper, chili chips and oregano and mix well.
4 Place the cube of feta in the center of the pan and place in the hot oven for 20-25 minutes until the tomatoes are completely soft and lightly charred.
5 Remove the pan from the oven and mash the tomatoes with the cheese with a fork into a thick sauce.
6 Add the cooked rice, mix well, sprinkle herbs according to personal taste and serve immediately.