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Pumpkin Rice

Pumpkin is a very common vegetable that you can easily get it from market. Pumpkin rice is a very convenient dish if you are too lazy to think of what to cook. Because sometimes, you can just cook one large pot of pumpkin rice and eat for the whole day. Pumpkin rice is an easy and delicious “one dish” meal. The sweet taste of pumpkin is fully absorbed by rice and sending out pleasant aroma.

Variety ingredients added in pumpkin rice provides carbohydrate, protein, fat and fiber all in one dish. Pumpkin is a good source of beta-carotene, and beta-carotene is an antioxidant that can prevent many types of cancer and heart disease. It also helps to boost our immune system.
Pumpkin rice

Pumpkin Rice Recipe: (serves 4), (* Rice cooker version)

Ingredients:

  • 1 ˝ cups rice (washed, soak in water for 30 minutes)
  • 300g pumpkin (remove seed and skin, cut into small cubes)
  • 150g pork belly (without skin, clean and cut into small cubes, can replace with bacon)
  • 6 dried mushrooms (wash and soak in water till soft, remove from water and cut into thin strips, keep the soaking water for later use)
  • 50g dried shrimps (wash and soak in water till soft, remove from water, and keep the water)
  • 5 shallots (sliced)
  • 3 cloves garlic (chopped)
  • 3 tablespoons cooking oil
  • Water (for rice cooking)

Seasoning:

  • 1 ˝ tablespoons soya sauce
  • 1 tablespoon dark soya sauce
  • ˝ teaspoon salt (no salt required if using bacon or it may too salty)
  • 1 teaspoon white pepper powder

Methods:

  • Heat cooking oil in a wok.
  • Fry shallots, garlic and pork belly till fragrant.
  • Add mushrooms, dried shrimps and pumpkin, continue sauté for a minute.
  • Add rice and continue stir fry for one or two minute until all ingredients finely mixed and fragrant.
  • Pour everything into rice cooker.
  • Add water, cook in rice cooker. (Including the water previously used to soak mushroom and dried shrimps, water level should cover the rice mixture completely with about 1cm above the surface of the rice.)
  • Once cooked, keep warm for around 10 minutes.
  • Then stir the rice until all ingredients mixed.
  • Serve hot.
See also: Nasi Lemak, Sticky Rice Dumpling, Fried Rice
 

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