Pineapple Fried Rice

May 31, 2015

Michael's away for his commons mid-winter conference. It's a practiced fourth dimension to brand recipes that he wouldn't like. This one, for example, is a savoury dish amongst pineapple inwards it - a consummate dealbreaker for the other one-half of where's the beef?. 

I genuinely had to a greater extent than or less organic tinned pineapple inwards the fridge, having resolutely bought it for my one-half of a pizza night. (Incidentally, I tin definitely recommend the fancy organic tinned pineapple - it's much tangier as well as toothier than the commons supermarket stuff.) In fact, I had everything I wanted to conform Heidi Swanson's pineapple rice recipe correct at home.

And it's definitely an adaptation. I wanted my pineapple chunky, non blended into the dressing, as well as I fried my garlic instead of leaving it raw. I'm no fan of raw onions either, as well as elected to supercede the dark-green onions as well as shallots amongst a sprinkling of fried shallots. All up, my recipe's to a greater extent than a fried rice than rice salad as well as that's the agency I similar it - hearty brownish rice dressed amongst tamari as well as a niggling sesame oil, studded amongst browned seitan pieces as well as juicy pinapple, topped amongst crunchy cashews as well as fried shallots. I could almost move dorsum at the Japanese-Hawai'ian Olu'Olu Cafe amongst a bowl similar this.

Pineapple fried rice
(adapted from a recipe on 101 Cookbooks)

1 loving cup brownish rice
two cups water
two teaspoons sesame oil
1/2 loving cup pineapple juice
pinch of chilli flakes
two tablespoons tamari
two tablespoons sunflower oil
2/3 loving cup seitan, roughly chopped
two teaspoons grated fresh ginger
two cloves garlic, minced
1 loving cup pineapple pieces
1 loving cup infant spinach leaves
1 loving cup roasted cashews
1/4 loving cup fried shallots

Place the rice as well as H2O inwards a pocket-size saucepan, comprehend amongst a lid as well as laid them over high heat. When the rice begins to boil, plough downwardly the oestrus to the lowest setting as well as gear upwards until the rice is tender as well as the H2O is absorbed, nearly xl minutes. Bring the rice to room temperature - I refrigerated mine overnight as well as and thence laid it on the bench nearly an hr earlier I wanted to eat.

In a pocket-size jounce or bowl, whisk together the sesame oil, pineapple juice, chilli flakes as well as tamari. Set them aside.

Set a large frypan or wok over high oestrus as well as add together the sunflower oil. When the fossil oil is hot, add together the seitan as well as stir-fry it until it's commencement to brown. Add the ginger as well as garlic as well as stir-fry for to a greater extent than or less other 30-60 seconds. Add the pineapple pieces as well as permit them sear a niggling earlier stirring them around. Add the rice, using your spatula to intermission downwardly whatsoever large clumps, as well as stir-fry it. In the infinitesimal earlier you're ready to serve the rice, stir inwards the spinach leaves as well as the cashews, allowing the spinach to wilt a little. Serve the rice sprinkled amongst fried shallots.