Arroz Tapado

Arroz Tapado means covered rice in Spanish. So one day I made Papa rellena and as usual I always have some left over of the fillings. I asked my hubbie, "what should I do with this leftover??" He called his mom and she suggested to make Arroz Tapado. The ground meat shares the same ingredients with papa rellena fillings. Here's the recipe: You can check out pictures from papa rellena's blog.

1lb of ground beef
1/2 large onions chopped finely
1/4 red bell pepper
1 teaspoon of garlic paste
2 teaspoon of tomato paste
1 medium size tomato seedless and chopped finely
1 teaspoon Aji Marillo (optional if you don't like spicy)
a pinch of papprika
1 cube of beef bouillon
a dash of Ajinomoto (optional)
a bunch of cilantro
salt+pepper+cumin to taste




Unlike papa rellena you put this aside, with arroz tapado you need to add these a minute before turning off the heat.
2 boiled eggs (crumble them)
a bunch of gold raisin
black olive

Shaping arroz tapado
On a cup or small shallow bowl, meat then rice then meat again.

We love eating this with Huancaina sauce ... yummie!!

Happy Cooking :)