Wednesday, January 13, 2010

'What's in the fridge' eggy rice

I've been experimenting with some different ways to cooking rice recently after my girlfriend cooked a tasty risotto in the oven in a casserole dish, I'd only every used a saucepan or frypan and had to stir the whole time. Anyway been trying out doing some hybrid steamed rice risotto which have worked pretty well but I had an egg left in the fridge so I thought I'd try and asian inspired variation.

Dish: Eggy rice dish
Special need categories: Gluten free
Special needs translated: No gluten, check all packageing, have included notes for the important ingredients.

  • long grain rice (I used basmati)
  • an egg
  • stock, vegetable or chicken (check it is gluten free, use Massel 7's for fructose free)
  • onion (don't use or substitute for celery for fructose free)
  • chinese five spice (check it's gluten free)
  • sweet potato finely chopped
  • potato finely chopped
  • carrot finely chopped
  • soy sauce (check it's gluten free)
  • tinned tuna (mine was flavoured with lemongrass and wasabi)
Method

Ok so the basic theory is, fry the onion, steam the rice, steam the potato and add the egg at the end.

So, start by frying the onions in a bit of oil, add some garlic if you like.  Once softened add the rice and water till it's twice the depth of the rice, put in some stock (was using powdered), give a quick stir and bring to the boil (adding boiling water will make this happen faster).  Then put a tight lid on, set the stove to lowest heat and set a timer for about 8 min.  The rice will take 20 min to cook, I guessed the potato would take just over 10.

After 8 min throw in the potato and sweet potato, put the lid back on and set the timer for another 12 min.
Once cooked lightly mix the egg, soy and some chinese five spice in a bowl, add the rice and stir through till the rice if fully coated, the hot rice will cook the egg.  The add the carrot and tuna and serve (mix through if you like).

As the title suggest, this is what was in my fridge/pantry, any other veggies could be added or subtracted, for the cooked veggies it's a matter of guess work as to how long they will take to steam.  Some other ingredients to try could be snow peas, beans, chicken, capsicum.

3 comments:

  1. Also, if you're doing fructose free, you would skip the beans (in the list of 'other ingredients')

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  2. green beans are fine for fructose friendly meals acording to monash fodmap researchers - they are a staple for me! No go for snow peas though..:)

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