Ingredients
4-5 Cups cooked rice
¼ kl ground pork
1 med sized egg
1 large onion
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp vetsin
salt to taste
3 tbsp atchuete oil
1 red bell pepper, chopped
2 tbsp chopped spring onions
Procedure
Beat egg, add a little salt. Heat a lite oil in frying pan, spread beaten egg thinly and fry. Slice into thin strips. Set aside.
Sauté garlic till brown in atchuete oil. Add onion, when wilted add
pork. Stir in 3 minutes. Season with salt and vetsin. Cook for 10
minutes.
Stir in rice and egg strips. Mix well. Fry for 10 minutes. Serve hot, garnished with chopped spring onions.
• Chopped green onion
• Cucumber slices (we also cook some into the rice, but it’s traditionally a garnish)
• Lime wedges
This recipe makes 4 servings.
Preparation
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan or wok at medium high. When it’s hot, add the garlic and onions and cook until tender.
Next add the rice and stir to heat all the way through. Add the soy and fish sauce and continue to stir until everything is fully combined.
Next, you can remove the rice from your wok or pan too cook the egg. Or if you prefer, simply heat up a new pan on medium high heat with vegetable oil.
Cook the egg until the white is cooked, but the egg yolk is still a bit soft. When the egg is ready, add it to the rice. You can also add the tomato and cucumber slices at this time. Of course, if cooked cucumber slices sounds a little strange (even though they are delicious!), you can reserve the cucumber for a garnish only. You can also add the green onion at this point, but not everyone in our house likes it, so we add it when serving.
Keep stirring until all the ingredients are fully combined. Get your chosen garnishes ready including the cucumber slices, green onion (if you didn’t cook it into the rice) and a lime wedge.
If you’ve ever wondered how they make that deliciously moist and sticky rice in Japanese restaurants, wonder no longer. It’s easy as picking up some sushi rice at your local grocery store (most large chains carry it) and following these instructions. Serve with your favorite Teriyaki or enjoy it on its own.
Ingredients
• 2 cups sushi rice • 2 ¼ cups water
This recipe makes 6 cups of cooked rice.
Preparation
Place the rice in a cooking pot and fill it with water. Stir the rice with your hands and drain the pot. Repeat this process a couple of times to rinse the rice properly and until the water is nearly clear. Drain the rice in a strainer for about 30 minutes.
Now place the rice back into your pot and add 2 ¼ cups of water and let soak for about 1 hour. After soaking, make sure the pot lid is on and turn your stove to medium high heat. Bring the rice to a boil and leave it at medium high heat for about 1 minute. Reduce heat to medium for about 5 minutes and then bring it down to medium low, letting it cook for another 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and drape a cloth over your post and let it sit for another 15 minutes before serving.
Rice needs to be thoroughly washed. A good way to do this is to put it into a colander, in a deep pan of water. Rub the rice well with the hands, lifting the colander in and out the water, and changing the water until it is clear; then drain. In this way the grit is deposited in the water, and the rice left thoroughly clean. The best method of cooking rice is by steaming it. If boiled in much water, it loses a portion of its already small percentage of nitrogenous elements. It requires much less time for cooking than any of the other grains. Like all the dried grains and seeds, rice swells in cooking to several times its original bulk. When cooked, each grain of rice should be separate and distinct, yet perfectly tender.
Steamed rice. ————- Soak a cup of rice in one and a fourth cups of water for an hour, then add a cup of milk, turn into a dish suitable for serving it from at table, and place in a steam-cooker or a covered steamer over a kettle of boiling water, and steam for an hour. It should be stirred with a fork occasionally, for the first ten or fifteen minutes.
Boiled rice (japanese method). —————————— Thoroughly cleanse the rice by washing in several waters, and soak it overnight. In the morning, drain it, and put to cook in an equal quantity of boiling water, that is, a pint of water for a pint of rice. For cooking, a stewpan with tightly fitting cover should be used. Heat the water to boiling, then add the rice, and after stirring, put on the cover, which is not again to be removed during the boiling. At first, as the water boils, steam will puff out freely from under the cover, but when the water has nearly evaporated, which will be in eight to ten minutes, according to the age and quality of the rice, only a faint suggestion of steam will be observed, and the stewpan must then be removed from over the fire to some place on the range, where it will not burn, to swell and dry for fifteen or twenty minutes. Rice to be boiled in the ordinary manner requires two quarts of boiling water to one cupful of rice. It should be boiled rapidly until tender, then drained at once, and set in a moderate oven to become dry. Picking and lifting lightly occasionally with a fork will make it more flaky and dry. Care must be taken, however, not to mash the rice grains.
Rice with fig sauce. ——————– Steam a cupful of best rice as directed above, and when done, serve with a fig sauce. Dish a spoonful of the fig sauce with each saucer of rice, and serve with plenty of cream. Rice served in this way requires no sugar for dressing, and is a most wholesome breakfast dish.
Orange rice. ———– Wash and steam the rice. Prepare some oranges by separating into sections and cutting each section in halves, removing the seeds and all the white portion. Sprinkle the oranges lightly with sugar, and let them stand while the rice is cooking. Serve a portion of the orange on each saucerful of rice.
Rice with raisins. ——————- Carefully wash a cupful of rice, soak it, and cook as directed for Steamed Rice. After the rice has began to swell, but before it has softened, stir into it lightly, using a fork for the purpose, a cupful of raisins. Serve with cream.
Rice with peaches. —————— Steam the rice and when done, serve with cream and a nicely ripened peach pared and sliced on each individual dish.
Browned rice. ————- Spread a cupful of rice on a shallow baking tin, and put into a moderately hot oven to brown. It will need to be stirred frequently to prevent burning and to secure a uniformity of color. Each rice kernel, when sufficiently browned, should be of a yellowish brown, about the color of ripened wheat. Steam the same as directed for ordinary rice, using only two cups of water for each cup of browned rice, and omitting the preliminary soaking. When properly cooked, each kernel will be separated, dry, and mealy. Rice prepared in this manner is undoubtedly more digestible than when cooked without browning.
