So I'm gonna give you a dish that my family absolutely love, its Singapore
style fried rice and it is a brilliant dish in this environment, where we're kind of
making do with things we have and haven't got right. There's 1000s of recipes
but it's having that kind of sumptuous rice and it's got tang and seasoning and of course
it's littered with beautiful veggies. Classically there'd be some kind of like
smoky ribs or ham or prawns, we've got no meat in the fridge. I've got
bacon and I've got a bit of sausage, so I thought I put that in there as well got
an egg.
Veg wise, there's bits and pieces of tatty stuff, so I've got 2 little
asparagus spears here, there's a bit more in the back. I've got 2 corn, 2
tomatoes, bit of broccoli and some leek, and some cabbage, and some carrot. You can
swap in and out any veggies that you've got. I'm just going to slice the
asparagus here, we've got our tomatoes here that can go into quarters. Kraut and
broccoli here, but you can use regular broccoli, cauliflower if you like so look
there's our broccoli. Now when it comes to the leek you could use onion, spring
onion and I'm going to just try and finely slice that cabbage. Now you could
use savoy cabbage, chinese cabbage, spinach, bok choy, pak choi. From a
nutrition point of view from your bodies it's like, yes come on! Give it to me!
I have got frozen prawns
which I've found at the bottom of the freezer, you can thaw them out just put
them in the bowl with some running water, no trouble. Now here is the fragrant part
ginger and garlic if you haven't got one or the other, honestly it doesn't matter.
Slice it, very very easy and let's get cooking.
Get yourself a nice large non-stick pan and get it nice and hot.
Now, the egg element I use something slightly different.
I just want to crack the egg into this bowl. So eggs have been slightly in short
supply, last week was a bit harder, this week's a little bit better. You'll get 2
portions out of each 1 egg. A little bit of oil goes in the pan.
So this beaten egg here goes straight in the pan, and I'm gonna move the pan around
and you're essentially creating like a little egg pancake. Then
let it cook away and then you'll see you starts to be cooked it's quite
satisfying actually in a sort of weird way and you make this. Look at that,
look how beautiful that is Jools like a little stained glass window.
Sorry.
So what we're going to do with this then is basically roll it up and
I'll slice that up later and toss that through the rice.
Now let's talk about the rice, I prefer doing this with white
basmati rice but I didn't have any run out, so that is brown rice, more
nutritious bonus. I actually added to that because I've got 7 people to
feed and just one little nest of rice noodles because that's all I had left
basically whatever rice or rice noodles you've got you can use for this
I just refresh it in cold water
and you definitely have to have it cold otherwise it will not work, it will stick.
Right, you can see the pans nice and hot, a little bit of oil.
I'm going to get my sausage, slice it up into little bits
sausage goes in, that's random normally it's ham
So this is when you can get your jiggle on.
When you've got colour on that, then we can go in with our prawns.
I'm only gonna use like 4 prawns, we can also go in with our ginger and our garlic.
So give that a nice little stir up, you can see there's a little bit of colour happening now
it smells amazing in here.
Okay, can you get a close-up of of this curry paste, feel free to use any curry paste you want.
Just a little teaspoon is all you need.
We're going to go in with our beautiful veggies, give it a nice little toss.
Asparagus goes in. It smells really really nice, I'm going to go in with just my portion of the rice.
So I would say it's about equal quantities of the veg to rice, for me
and then you want to season the rice with soy sauce.
I think what's really nice as well is honestly, sorry I got that over the sofa
Okay, have I really upset you now? Yes.
But look, come and have a look at this J, this is that pancake that I rolled up. Can you see how
what you essentially create in seconds with zero effort and no talent at all is
really like egg tagliatelle, look at that, and then put that into my rice.
Move it around and break up all the rice. Okay so I'm gonna plate it up now.
Look at the colours guys, that is my expression of Singapore rice it's brilliant for now guys
brilliant for now, it's a fantastic dish. So look, enough yapping get in there.
I do really like the mixture of rice and noodles, truly truly flexible dish
Surf and turf, loads of veg bigging up rice noodles, a super flexible dish
that I know will be really great for you guys now.
Jools what do you want to say?
Bud what do you reckon?
Bud's is sad because he thought he lost River in the garden. Yeah, he thought he lost River
Pops, what you reckon?
Really good!
Right girls, teenagers, Mum how'd you find it?
So good, very very tasty.