welcome back to another addition of weird and wonderful by jamie oliver
we've run out of budget
okay today is about a wonderful and weird
ingredient this is ladies and gentlemen green rice check
this stuff
this is ricey nectar
ive never ever seen this before in my life
really unusual now green rice is from Vietnam there is the fresh green rice
which is when the buds of rice are really green naturally and really fresh
and that's a real delicacy this one here is a young sticky rice its been dried on
the pan dam leaves
and what happens is the rice
naturally sucks up
the chlorophyll from the leaf and it gets squashed and flattened and dried
and this is what you get to know you can get this green rice from
asian
supermarkets and you can get it online
the genius of green rice
is texture
if you have a look
we've got some pork balls here
and they have been rolled in the green rice
and then they have been deep fried
and look look at the texture its absolutely puffy
and crunchy
whatever you put it around you could do it with fish i'm sure prawns chicken
this happens to be pork but you get that lovely soft fragrant inside and then you
get the beautiful crunchy outside
so let me just show you here
we've got some nice pork belly that's been minced here
with a little shredded spring onion garlic
chilli coriander we are going to put the green rice here
and sort of squeeze it
in and around so just press it
into the rice to be honest just by squeezing it you see what im doing there
when your making the actual balls
that's what you get
im just going to roll these around
and of course deep frying
not the healthiest thing in the world but for a treat brilliant like little
canapes or nibbles with a beer as your warming the night up cheers we've got
some very hot oil here its boiled at 180 degrees
we're gonna put
our pork in
you're gonna see
some of the rice go
straight to the top of course being nice
and hot is going to cook super quick
okay so these pork balls have had about
4 minutes you want them to cook through
look how gorgeous they are
they have got attitude
their gnarly
you know that they are crispy
yes its a deep fried treat
but you have got fragrance inside there
and it looks like literally like an alien
that has just landed
on this spoon so i'm going to put that on to some kitchen paper
or a little tea towel there
so lets just serve it up i've got a lovely bored
we are going to take our crazy little balls and pop
them on here
really unusual
something different and for me that is what weird and wonderful is about
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and lets share it
if i was going to finish i think its nice to finish it with
some coriander some mint and a few llittle flex
in and around our story here and i think there
you've got a really nice contemporary little dish and of course what we do is go
along
grab one of our little balls we have a little bath
a little dippy dippy woo woo
and then it goes on another voyage
to a lovely place called gob
fast forward
so heavenly
really really good
astonishingly good
really exciting definitely worth having a go at that
okay salad now green rice can basically turn a really boring green salad
into something exciting
take our little bad ass rice and we've got a new version of crouton
let's just have a snow shower
of beautiful
crunchy rice
and that my friends will be a really lovely
weird and wonderful salad
so there you go guys green rice really weird really wonderful with the pork balls
and the salad
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