Recipe: Fried Brown Rice

I have always struggled to make healthy choices when it comes to food. My taste buds just don’t like green stuff. One thing I started doing a couple of years ago was to replace some of the normal things I eat with slightly healthier options e.g. white bread was replaced with granary (and now I can’t stand the sight of white bread anymore. One of those changes for a while was the replacement of white rice with brown. I mean it’s still a lot of carbs to eat but it supposedly has a lot of nutritional benefits. Now if you give me plain brown rice, even with the maddest sauce, I just ain’t having it. Fried rice on the other hand…bring it on. This was a recipe sort of passed on to me by one of my close friends (shoutout to Dolly, wooooooooo lol)ย It’s pretty live!
- Prep time: 10 mins
- Cooking time: 35 mins
- Serves: 6 people
- Calories per serving: 462
What you’ll need
- Brown rice – 6 cups
- Olive oil (or preferred cooking oil) – 4 tablespoons
- Onions – chopped, 1/2 cup
- Bacon lardons or pancetta – 70g
- Frankfurters – 2 links
- Prawns – 100g
- Mixed peppers – chopped, 1 cup
- Garlic – chopped, 1/2 teaspoon
- Chilli powder or paste – 1 teaspoon
- Curry powder – 2 teaspoons
- Salt – 1 teaspoon
- Thyme – 1/2 teaspoon
- Maggi – 1 cube
- Kitchen foil
Instructions
- Start by chopping the onions and mixed peppers, then slice the Frankfurters
- Heat the oil in a big pot (that has a lid but we won’t need it just yet), add the onions and curry powder and fry for a couple of minutes stirring regularly
[Don’t have the heat too high or it will burn before you blink twice!] - Add the pancetta and prawns, stir fry for a few minutes then add the mixed peppers, garlic, chilli powder and thyme
- The peppersย should have started releasing moisture, turn the heat down so the liquid does not evaporate too quickly
- Add the rice [as I’ve said before, the Nigerian in me always washes rice first by rinsing in cool water till it runs clear] and add 4 cups of water, salt and maggi
- Stir to mix everything together – the rice should be submerged in the liquid. Turn the heat down to the lowest possible and cover the pot with a square of foil and then with the lid to seal tall the moisture in the pot
- Leave to steam for 25-30 mins then check the consistency, hopefully the rice should be cooked – fluffy but still firm. If you prefer it softer just let steam for slightly longer.
- Serve and enjoy!
Final Result
This looks so good…love your presentation on the plate too!!! ๐
Thanks! Admittedly the rice tower collapsed seconds after I got these shots ๐๐
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Looks delicious, very nice presentation! =) I too have issues with sticking to healthy diets I think our taste buds may be similar! Will definitely consider trying this recipe out as I do love my rice!
Thank you! Haha I hear you on the tastebuds front. I’d definitely recommend cooking brown rice in stock or sauce…let me know how it turns out ๐
I would love to try this, this looks delicious
Thanks, it’s super easy and usually turns out great as long as the heat is low (otherwise hello burnt rice ๐)