Easy Rice Recipes - Rice Becomes Luxurious

Easy rice recipes are always welcome to make any meal more substantial. In South Africa, where I live, it is a vital part of any of our main meals, it is almost a staple. For us a meal starts with rice, meat and potatoes and then the rest follows. So, for us easy rice recipes are a very important part of our recipe collections. Here I have a few very tasty ones for you to try.

The first one is a very tasty and easy one suitable for the birds. You can serve it with chicken, duck and turkey. Do not substitute oil for the butter; it will not taste as good. In South African cooking we use a lot of butter and you cannot use oil in its place, well you can, but it will not be as tasty.

Rice With Almonds And Raisins

Ingredients:
½ cup raisins ½ cup blanched almonds 2 ½ cups water 1 ½ Tsp. butter 1 ½ cups rice 1 ½ tsp. salt
Method:
Cover raisins with water and almonds with milk for 5 hours. Put water, salt and butter in tightly closed pot and boil. When boiling, add rice and cook gently for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Cover open pot with towel and let stand for 5 minutes. Add raisins and almonds. Delicious - can be served with chicken and any vegetables of your choice.
Here's A Spanish One Who does not love Spanish? Here is a very easy one.

Ingredients:
Cook 1 cup of rice 1 large onion (cut-up) 3 oz. butter or oil 3 large tomatoes (skinned and cut-up) 1 large green pepper (cut into thin slices) Chopped parsley 3 Tsp. tomato sauce Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Fry onion in butter or oil until golden brown - add tomatoes, green pepper, salt, pepper, parsley and tomato sauce. Mix together with rice.

Delicious served with beef and salads.

And what about Chinese?

As far as this recipe goes, it can really be served with anything. As far as I know there are very few meat dishes that will not be improved by the flavor of this dish.

Ingredients:
1 cup rice ½ cup chopped mushrooms ½ cup chopped celery ¼ cup chopped onion 2 cups boiling water 3 Tsp. chopped green peppers 1Tsp. butter 1 chicken cube (dissolved in the boiling water) Salt 1 cup cubed cooked chicken
Method:
Fry onion, green pepper and celery in butter or chicken fat. Add rice, then chicken stock. When rice is cooked add chopped mushrooms. Simmer for 20 minutes then add chicken cubes and heat through.
Parsley Rice Moulds

Even though this one is a slightly more "fancy" it is still easy and tasty. Except for the mixed spice the tastes are very neutral and it will compliment any dish.

Ingredients:
1 cup cooked rice ¼ cup milk ½ tsp. grated onion ½ tsp mixed spice !/3 cup mayonnaise 2 Tsp. chopped parsley ¾ tsp. salt Dash of pepper
Method:
Mix all ingredients together. Pack into greased moulds. Bake in pan of water at 400° F. for 15-20 minutes.
Now A Baked Pineapple One

Wow, this is a little sweet one! Once again this is one for the birds, chicken, duck or turkey.

Ingredients:
1½ cups rice 2 cups water ½ cup pineapple juice 2 tsp. salt 1 cup drained, crushed pineapple ½ cup brown sugar 3 Tsp. butter 2 tsp grated lemon rind Dash of lemon juice ¼ tsp grated nutmeg
Method:
Combine rice, water, pineapple juice and salt and cook till it is tender and flaky and liquid absorbed. Pass remaining ingredients and stir lightly with a fork. Turn into buttered quart casserole and bake in preheated oven at 350° F for 15-20 minutes

Excellent with roast duck or chicken. Also good with chicken and mushroom casserole.

With these easy rice recipes at hand you will never be at a loss for a suitable companion for your meat or fish dishes. I hope you enjoy them as much as my family does.

Easy Recipes: Egg Fried Rice

I previously wrote about some easy recipes for lazy students who've never cooked for themselves, and today I'd like to continue in that series with a really tasty yet authentic recipe for Chinese Egg Fried Rice. My wife, being Chinese, makes this all time. And I love it!

Traditionally, egg fried rice is a dish designed to use up left-overs - you wouldn't cook up a batch of fresh rice just to make it, for instance. In Asian families, it's quite normal to have the rice cooker in constant use, so there is always warm rice on hand - which also inevitably means that sometimes the rice won't be that nice to eat on it's own, so that why egg fried was invented.

It's a simple recipe with a lot of room for customizing, with whatever meat and veg was left from last nights dinner - so don't feel like you have to stick to it rigidly.

Main Ingredients:

- 2 eggs

- 2 teaspoons of Sesame oil

- 300g of any regular or long grain white rice

- 2 teaspoons of salt, and 2 of pepper

- 1 spring onion

- 1 tablespoon of Soy sauce

 

Other things you might want to add:

- 100g Ham, Bacon, or Beef

- 100g Peas (frozen is fine)

- 100g bean sprouts

- Red or green pepper

- Really, whatever is left in the fridge!

 

Instructions:

I'm going to assume your rice is already cooked, and either sitting in a container in the fridge, or still warm in the rice cooker. Either is fine to work with.

Start by lightly beating the eggs, but not too much. My wife always fries the egg first, so pour a single teaspoon of Sesame oil into a pan and fry the eggs as if to scramble them. Don't cook them too much though, just so they solidify - you don't want them brown. Take them out and throw them back in the bowl for the time being.

At this point, how you make it will depend on what your ingredients are. Whatever you are using though, chop it up small. A really big Chinese cleaver helps this to go a little quicker! If you have uncooked meat, or fresh vegetables, then go ahead and fry them now. If everything you're putting in it is leftovers from last night, then you're probably good to move straight on.

This final step is probably the most difficult, so listen carefully! Throw everything in the fry pan with a little oil, and fry it. I know, it's difficult...

Constantly stir it, season with salt and pepper, and use your spatula to break up any clumps of egg or rice - mix it all up good! How long you cook it for is a matter of personal preference. Personally, I like to burn it a little on the bottom to get some nice crunchy bits, but whatever whets your whistle.

That's it for today, but you can find more egg recipes here, if you like. Next week I'll be posting some great authentic Chinese recipes from my wife, so be sure to check out my profile too if you have time.

2 delicious fried rice recipes

It is common in the Asian countries, to leave the cooking rice each day to ensure that there is always a bowl of cooked rice at any time of the day. To make sure the rice is still delicious even when it has been sitting for some time, they tend to fry cooked rice-it's a great way to use up the last vestiges of too.

look easy fried rice Recipes two today.

Creamy fried rice with Bacon and mushrooms:

-4 cups of cooked or uncooked rice
-3.5 ounces of bacon
-7 oz of mushrooms
-1 cube chicken konsomi
-3 slices of cheese Danish or cheese 3 tbsp
-Oil, salt
-2 cloves garlic

Preparation:

Crush garlic and FRY in a little oil along with some sliced mushrooms, Diced Bacon, so everything is nicely toasted.

Add 8 cups of water, and reduce the amount if you start with cooked rice. Not in konsomi salt now, too. The rest have boiled away water simmer. Add cheese and finally before turning off the flame and allow it to melt, stir in. Serve ~

Rice: Russian

With a name like this, who wouldn't be curious. Check the list of ingredients and decide if this is right for you! Personally, I love it!

-9 oz Minced pork
-Rice
-1 can of fried tomatoes
-Cayenne pepper
-1 tbsp auilvi oil
-Salt and pepper spaghetti
-1 cube chicken konsomi
-Some cognac (!)

Preparation:

In separate pan, measure out 6 cups of water and boil, add chicken; homogenized composite food salt.

Separately, wash 3 cups of rice (uncooked!) and FRY until they harden. Add to boiling water. Boil until rice and then evaporates water, which should be about 20 minutes.

Separately, fry meat and spices; when you add meat changes color dash cognac. Add the tomatoes and cook on a low flame. When it begins to boil, add tomato juice and rice and mix thoroughly.

I'm not sure of the origin of the name "rice" to be honest, but perhaps with vodka and cognac.