LEMON DHANIA RICE
LEMON DHANIA RICE
I love quick fixes. Especially on days when I am DEAD BIT tired. I love it when I can get home from work and just put rice in the microwave let it cook, remove it and just a put a thing here and there and in a few seconds the rice is transformed. By now I am sure you all know of my love for all things dhania (coriander/cilantro) I think I could add dhania to tea if I could 🙂 I learned this recipe a couple of years back from a magazine. I do not remember the name of the magazine so I honestly do not know who to give credit to.
This is an easy way to spruce up rice for a sweet and spicy dish or just to eat. It is important to make this dish as soon as the rice cooks because of the melting of the butter and also if the rice stays the lemon tends to be soaked up by the rice so the flavour is not the same. HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- 1 cup of cooked white rice
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- Juice of 1 large lemon
- small yellow bell pepper diced
- About 1 teaspoon of black pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Cook rice as you normally would.
As soon as it’s cooked put in the butter and stir to melt ensuring it is completely melted well distributed.
Add the lemon juice, bell pepper and dhania. Stir to combine
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve immediately.
How easy is that!!!!
HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/lemon-dhania-rice/
ROSEMARY and GARLIC BAKED FRIES
I love fries. Did I say I love them??? NO, I am IN LOVE with fries. When I was in high school I think I ate them every weekday for 3 years and maybe still on the weekend and I NEVER once got tired of them. When I was growing up my mother always said that I will one day grow up and stop eating them with so much vigor but either I am yet to grow up or she was wrong. Unfortunately though, as you grow up you begin to notice that fries (or chips as we like to call them) are really not that healthy!!! And after high school you realize that you can not eat the same way you did in high school and not add on some weight. Anyway a few years after high school and a couple of kilos up I decided to join a gym and get a trainer. This trainer decided that he will cut short my love affair with potatoes and I was so heart broken, a few months into training and I was allowed to eat some potatoes but still no fries, but he told me how to bake fries, I honestly did not even think that this was possible. I went home VERY skeptical about baked fries but at the end it was not that bad, with time I experimented with different spices and LOVED this one best so most nights when I feel like a steak and fries, I throw them both in the oven and save on a shit load of unwanted fats. HAPPY COOKING!!!
Ingredients
- 3 potatoes (sliced into chips)
- 1/2 tsp garlic (or regular) salt
- 3 cloves garlic, minced or sliced
- 2 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
Preheat oven to 230 degrees Celsius.
In a large bowl, mix oil, garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper and potatoes together.
Spread the potatoes onto a greased baking sheet in a single layer.
Bake about 40 minutes, or until golden brown (turn after about 20 mins to bake both sides). HAPPY EATING!!
If you want you could bake the fries with out the garlic then fry the garlic in about 1table spoon of olive oil then toss the baked fries in the oil. This gives a bit of a different intensity of the garlic flavor.
CHILLI BEEF AND SPINACH
I had earlier on in my blog posted that I am not a fun of spinach or any dark greens for that matter apart from Kale( sukuma wiki). Well this is one of the recipes that are weaning me into eating spinach. I still can not eat them by themselves but I guess as long as they get into my mouth and eventually my stomach that should count right???? I loved the chilli flavour in this dish and also the fact that I made it in less than 20 mins. I also had this on its own with no accompaniment and I really enjoyed it. I think it would go great though with either rice or Ugali (Kenyan meal made out of maize meal). HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon of peanut/Sesame oil (this is great for stir fry’s coz it has a high smoke point but if you don’t have regular vegetable or olive oil is fine)
- 400g beef fillet/steak, thinly sliced
- 2 small fresh chillies
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 bunch of spinach, chopped
- 2 teaspoons teriyaki sauce ( when I don’t have this I mix soy sauce with just a bit of brown sugar)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon corn flour
- ½ teaspoon beef stock powder (such as royko)
- ¼ cup (60ml) water
Instructions
Combine beef, oil, chillies and garlic in a bowl and marinate for at least 20 mins (This is optional but adds to the flavour in the meat the longer the better)
Heat oil in wok Add combined beef, oil, chillies and garlic in batches Stir fry until beef is tender
Add spinach, sauce and sugar Add blended corn flour, stock powder and water Stir until sauce boils and thickens
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/chilli-beef-and-spinach/
