Barberton Hot Rice Original Recipes

BARBERTON HOT SAUCE

Steps:

• Perl and dice onion medium fine.
• Dice cellery and bell pepper fine.
• Melt shorting in a large skillet.
• Add onion and saute about 3 minutes or until soft and translucent. Add green pepper and celery and saute about 3 more minutes.
• Add entire can of tomatoes and tomato juice. Stir until distributed evenly
• add sugar, pepper and salt.
• crush red pepper between fingers and add to mixture for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• rinse rice under sieve until water runs clear.
• add rice to pan and stir to distribute evenly.
• Simmer for about 15 minutes until rice has cooked and absorbed most of the liquid, add more tomato juice if needed. (rice needs to be a little soupy).
• taste and adjust seasonings to taste.

BARBERTON STYLE HOT SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Peel and dice your onion medium fine.. Use 2 med. or 1 lg. onion - use more if you like onions. Clean celery and remove the strings. Dice celery fine. If used, clean and remove stem & seeds of bell pepper and dice fine.
• 2. Melt Crisco shortening. in a 12" skillet, large saute' pan or about a 3 qt. saucepan
• 3. ADD onions and saute' on low heat until soft and translucent, stirring so edges don't turn brown & burn. About 3 to 5 minutes. Add the celery and (optional) green pepper and saute' stirring until soft. About 3 more minutes.
• 4. ADD entire can of tomatoes to the pan. Rinse out your can with a small amount of water and add it to the pan. Add 1 about 4 to 6 oz. of the tomato juice. Stir until all is distributed evenly.
• 5. ADD sugar, and salt & black pepper. Crush red pepper flakes between fingers and add to tomato & onion mixture in pan as well. TURN HEAT DOWN TO THE LOWEST SETTING. COVER pan and continue cooking on SIMMER for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• 6. RINSE rice in sieve under running water until water runs clear. ADD rice to your pan of and stir to distribute evenly throughout tomato & onion sauce mixture.
• 7. Return lid to pan, setting it ajar to allow the steam to escape. Allow to SIMMER for about 15 more minutes until rice has cooked and absorbed most of the liquid. TASTE & adjust seasonings to your taste. Add more tomato juice, as needed.
• 8. When rice is cooked and the sauce is the consistency you like, serve it up..! As for me, the hotter (spicier) it is, the better I like it... ENJOY!

HOT RICE

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and drain.
• Put ground beef in a bowl with the can of rotel.
• Cook rice a roni according to directions but with only 2 cups of water and add beef/rotel mixture before putting lid on.