Sausage and Peppers with Rice (Spicy)

A real crowd-pleaser, it's totally delicious and really easy to make. Spicy sausages and rice with peppers, red onion, tomatoes and spring onion, cooked in one pot with chicken stock.

1 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1 red onion, sliced
1 red bell pepper, deseeded and diced
2 cloves garlic, very finely sliced
5 hot Italian sausages
1 heaped tsp. smoked paprika
1 cup long-grain rice, uncooked (200 g)
½ cup dry white wine
2 cups chicken stock (500 mL)
4 spring onions (scallions), trimmed and sliced
2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
small bunch flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped

Add just 1 Tbsp. of olive oil to a heavy-based casserole dish and fry the onion for 5 minutes until soft but not coloured.

Add the peppers and garlic and cook for 2 minutes while moving it about so the garlic doesn't burn.

Slit the sausage skins and crumble the sausage meat so it looks like small meatballs. Turn the heat to high (otherwise, the sausage will steam rather than brown).

Cook while moving it about a bit in the pan for about 4-5 minutes until coloured. Add the smoked paprika and mix. Season to taste.

Add the rice and stir well to mix thoroughly and absorb the flavour.

Now deglaze the pan by pouring in the white wine and scraping any bits stuck to the bottom.

Add the stock and bring to the boil and then turn to simmer.

Cook gently for 15-20 minutes until the rice is tender and the liquid almost entirely absorbed.

Keep an eye on it and stir from time to time. Remove from the heat, gently fold in the spring onions, tomato and parsley. Serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings.