Black Rice Medley:
This is a small rice dish I make for breakfast, it's easy, healthy and the items can be changed to keep the flavor fresh over time. I chose black rice for it's amazing health benefits. I waanted something that would help in some way to heal my damaged Central Nervous System. Black rice has a lot of iron, antioxidants and vitamin E. This is of course a very easy dish to make.
I'm going to start off by boiling some water. This dish is going to take about 30 minutes to make, as that is how long it takes to boil the rice. I find that while the rice can be tasty and have a passable texture if I take it out ten minutes earlier, I will suffer the consequences a few hours later.
Once it's completely boiling, add the rice (and at this stage I will also boil any carrots, if I'm using them) And cover the pot, stirring every ten minutes.
Next stage is to dice the vegetables.
First I'm going to dice my garlic.
I'm going to store all my vegetables on a spare plate, this will allow me to add them en masse when the rice is done, and once it's mixed and fully prepared I can use the plate to eat from.
Chop, and add some green onions.
I need to use this meat before it goes bad, the strength and utility of this dish is that it is flexible. I want to chop to an appropriate size, before cooking.
Next step is to add some sesame oil to a pan, and start heating this beef.
While this is going on, I'm going to chop and prepare the other meat I have on hand, ham.
When it comes time to drain the rice, I drain it into a seperate cup to drink later, I have two reasons for this, I want to capture any nutrients that escaped into the water, and secondly, it tastes like blueberry juice.
This leaves me with the rice/carrots in the pot:
If the meat is done, it can be added, if not, wait until it is.
Now I add my plate of vegetables (and ham!)
It looks very nice, but it's missing something, so I'm going to add some salt, pepper, and soy sauce (and/or any other seasonings or sauces I might want to add, such as pickled ginger or rice wine vinegar.)
After a good mix, the medley is complete, and breakfast is served!
Healthy and delicious! :) Although I'll use more rice or less vegetables and meat in the future
