EnderofWorlds said:
Does washing the rice make that much of a difference? I've never noticed any difference in taste or texture...
Yes, it does... but then I use jasmine rice or bismati rice to cook.
And with rice cooking down, how about some.... spam fried rice? :3
Ingredients
- Freshly cooked rice, 2 cups when cooking it (or left over rice)
- 1/3 can of spam (and/or other meats, possibly left overs) - diced/cut up
- 2 eggs
- 2 stalks of spring onions - finely sliced
- 1/2 onion (red or white or both) - diced (use more at discretion)
- 1 shallot - diced
- 3-4 cloves of garlic - diced or finely sliced (use more at discretion)
- 1 whole small carrot or 1/2 large carrot - diced
- 2 handfuls of peas (thaw if frozen or cook it with the rice ^_^)
- cooking oil - a dash. I tend to use
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- salt and finely ground black pepper, naturally.
- A wok or large pot or large frying pan to cook in
First work on the rice if you have no rice, the carrots and peas can be cooked with the rice. Otherwise, simple boil them in a pot with lightly salted water until soft.
Once the rice, carrots and peas are done, you can start to cook.
Heat a dash of oil in the cooking utensil, make sure it lightly coats the surface of the cooking area. Use medium heat.
Saute the diced onions and shallot until translucent. Add in garlic at this point, keep stirring for a bit more, 20-30 seconds
Next, add in the
spam, keep stirring away until the meat looks cooked, in the case of spam, it'll have a darker red/pink coloration and looks kinda sunburnt.
Next add in the peas, carrots, stir, until they're all mixed up. Add a pinch of salt (but NOT too much, remember spam is salty!), and a dash of pepper. Don't be afraid to taste it to make sure that there is enough salt.
Once that is done, you add in the rice. Stir and mix it up as much as you can. Do this for a minute or two or more as needed.
Now, adding in the eggs isn't necessary, BUT it gives the rice a nice golden complexion and gives it a nice flavor. Add the egg, stir the mixture until the egg is spread all over the rice. You'll know it's cooked WHEN the rice does NOT look like there is any egg liquid covering it at all, ie. it's kind of dry.
Serve with the spring onion as garnish. Flavor with ketchup as needed.