Riz gras

Riz gras, the French term for fat rice, is Burkina Faso's national one-pot dish, consisting of white rice, tomato paste, and vegetables such as eggplants, carrots, onions, chili peppers, and garlic that are boiled together in a thick rice stew and served with a few strands of raw onions on top. If meat is used in the dish, it is browned at the beginning of the cooking process. Peanut oil is heavily used in the making of riz gras, giving it its name. Although the dish is not flashy, it is a perfect comfort food - proteins, carbohydrates, and vegetables all in one dish. Fat rice is not a variety of rice, but a term denoting how much oil is present in the dish, and there is a lot of it used in the preparation of riz gras. Burkina Faso is an African country that is very prone to droughts and famine so the people survive on what they can grow themselves, consuming foods like rice, beans, and peanuts.