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Kabocha Pumpkin Fried Rice
Kabocha Pumpkin Fried Rice
This Japanese-style fried rice uses one of my favorite ingredients: kabocha pumpkin. This pumpkin has the flavor between a butternut squash and a sweet potato. The skin is edible and adds a slight sweetness to the fried rice.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 2 cups kabocha pumpkin diced
- 5 strips bacon diced
- 1/4 cup shallots sliced
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- 2 cups cooked white rice
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 3 green onions chopped
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat up 1 tbsp of vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat. Pour in the eggs.
- Scramble and remove from the wok.
- Add in the other tbsp of vegetable oil. Stir fry the kabocha pumpkin for 3 minutes.
- Add in the diced bacon. Cook for 7 minutes until crispy.
- Add in the shallots and garlic. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Break up the clumps of cooked rice and stir into the wok. Fry for 3 minutes.
- Pour in the soy sauce. Stir in the scrambled eggs. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and stir in the green onions. Season with black pepper to taste.
Bacon Cashew Wild Rice
Bacon Cashew Wild Rice
Wild rice is one of the only grains native to North America and is a huge staple of indigenous tribes. While it’s called rice, it is actually a grass seed that grows naturally in lakes. This particular recipe has the wild rice mixed with sautéed bacon, celery, onions, and mushrooms. At the last minute, cashews are stirred in.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups wild rice
- 4 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp butter
- 4 slices bacon diced
- 1 small onion diced
- 2 ribs celery diced
- 8 oz button mushrooms sliced
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 cup cashews
Instructions
- Add the wild rice, water, and salt to a pot. Bring to a boil. Cover. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 45 minutes.
- While the rice is cooking, fry the diced bacon in a separate sauté pan until crispy. Remove from the pan.
- Melt the butter in the same sauté pan. Sauté the onions, celery, and mushrooms over medium high heat for 8 minutes.
- Stir the bacon and cashews back in.
Hmong Sausage with Purple Sticky Rice
Hmong Sausage with Purple Sticky Rice
This sausage and purple sticky rice is unbelievably good and really easy to make. All of the sausage ingredients get mixed together and formed onto skewers, much like making kofta or koobideh kabobs. You can either broil or grill the sausage skewers for 6-7 minutes a side. The sausage skewers and sticky rice get served with tiger sauce, which contains cilantro, garlic, Thai chilies, lime juice, oyster and fish sauce. It’s actually really spicy, but goes very well with the sausage. This is a great appetizer for parties and is equally great as your main course.
Equipment
- food processor
- metal skewers
- sticky rice steamer basket
- cheese cloth
Ingredients
Hmong Sausage
- 1 1/2 lbs ground pork
- 2 tbsp ginger
- 2 tbsp lemongrass
- 2 tbsp garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 Thai chilies
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
Purple Sticky Rice
- 1 1/2 cups sticky rice
- 1/2 cup black sticky rice
Tiger Sauce
- 1 bunch cilantro chopped
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 3 Thai chilies minced
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
Instructions
Tiger Sauce
- Add all of the ingredients to a food processor.
- Process until all of the ingredients are incorporated with each other.
- Refrigerate until ready for use.
Purple Sticky Rice
- Soak the white and black sticky rices in water for at least 8 hours.
- Bring 2” of water to a boil in the bottom of a sticky rice steamer. Line a sticky rice bamboo basket with cheese cloth. Pour in the rice. Fold over the cheesecloth to cover. Place a cover on the steamer basket. Steam for 45 minutes.
Hmong Sausage
- Add the ginger, garlic, lemongrass, and chilies to a food processor.
- Process until evenly chopped.
- Mix in all of the ingredients to the ground pork.
- Depending on the size you’re looking for, form the sausage into 6-8 equal sized meatballs.
- Form each of the meatballs into the shape of a sausage on metal skewers.
- Turn on the oven’s broiler. Place the skewers on a wire rack on a baking sheet lined in foil.
- Broil the sausage for 6-7 minutes a side. Alternatively, you can grill the sausage for the same amount of time.
