One pot rice

Sometimes on weekends, is my time to cook day. A lot of times, my hubby will not want me to cook and he prefers to buy from the food centre but he does appreciate if my food is good. But I do hate washing up!


Last weekend, I searched for one pot rice and chanced upon this recipe for "Kiam Peng" meaning salty rice.


The ingredients are simple, I used about 250 gm of chicken thigh meat, diced and pan fried first.


Then fried the garlic, and ginger and diced onion together.
Added in the carrots, some shimeji mushrooms and long beans.
After frying those, I added sliced cabbage, about 1/4 of  a large cabbage.
Then I added in Kikkoman soy sauce, Tai Wah dark soy sauce and oyster sauce, some sesame oil  and fried together.


Note : no need to cut the beans and carrots so fine, because in the end, I couldn't see my vegs!!

After frying, mix into the rice which you place in the rice cooker. I mixed water with chicken stock.
I followed and put less than the water level for 2 cups rice. Mix well and cook.

mixed in

almost cooked

After cooking, mixed well, and I put in some Chinese parsley. Let it sit for 15 mins before serving.

The rice is fragrant and tasty! but you should not skimp on the ingredients - should put in more than what I did.

Happy cooking everyone!

Raisin butter rice with cashew nuts

This is a simple rice tasty flavour and cooked over a stove in my pan.

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/25247/rice-with-almonds-and-raisins

I followed the recipe above and changed the almonds to cashew nuts

Ingredients to use 

1 tbsp butter

1/3 cup finely chopped onions

1 cup uncooked rice ( I rinsed)

2 tablespoon raisins ( I used a mix of raisins)

1 n 1/2 cup chicken broth

Salt n pepper to taste 

1/4 cup of almonds ( I replaced with about 1 cup of cashew nuts - toasted)

Method

Melt the butter in the saucepan.

Sauté the onions n then add the rice, chicken broth, salt, pepper all at once.

When the broth boils, lower the heat to low and cover.

Observe for about 5 minutes n stir the rice a little and cover again.

Do it again in closer intervals.

This way the rice will not get burnt.

It only takes about 15 minutes to cook.

When all the liquid is absorbed your rice should be cooked. 

Stir in the cashew nuts.

Serve with a meat side dish if you prefer.

Water starts to bubble 

Dinner is served!

I did another bowl with almond flakes this time round.