Rice with Vegetables and Sesame
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As a side dish or salad (warm or cold), this Lenten recipe is not boring at all. The rice, because it's toasted at the beginning, becomes slightly chewy, which gives the mixture texture. And the sesame addition isn't just for texture and taste, but also for its huge calcium contribution, which is important during Lent when dairy products aren't consumed.
Ingredients
1 cup long grain rice (I used basmati)
1 1/4 cups water
1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
250g champignon mushrooms
2 green onions
1 leek
1/2 cup peas (fresh or frozen)
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
3 tablespoons oil
salt, black pepper
Servings: 2-3
How to prepare rice with vegetables and sesame
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pot. Add the rice and fry over high heat until it browns slightly. It won't brown evenly, and that's okay. Stir frequently throughout.
- Add hot water over the rice, bring to a boil, cover, and cook for 5 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, lift the lid, place a towel over the pot, then put the lid back on. Let it rest for 15 minutes without lifting the lid.
- Cut the green onion into rounds (both the white and green parts). Cut the white and light green part of the leek in half lengthwise, then slice into thin rounds. Remove the mushroom stems and slice thinly.
- In a large skillet, sauté the mushrooms in 2 tablespoons of oil, sprinkled with a little salt and black pepper, until softened. Remove to a plate.
- In the same skillet, sauté the green onion and leek for just 2 minutes, until slightly softened. Remove over the mushrooms.
- Boil the peas in salted water. Drain and add to the other vegetables.
- Toast the sesame seeds lightly in a dry pan without oil.
- Drizzle the cooked rice with sesame oil and soy sauce and stir with a fork.
- Add the vegetables and toasted sesame over the rice and stir again, tasting for salt.
- Serve warm or cold.
Fry the rice
Fried mushrooms
Fried onion and leek
Cooked peas
Cooked rice
Mix it all together
Rice with Vegetables and Sesame
