Vegetarian Savoury Rice With White Beans

This savoury rice recipe is actually a vegetarian rice dumpling recipe.  Instead of cooking it with glutinous rice and wrapping up as rice dumplings, I substituted it with white rice and cooked it with several pieces of bamboo leaves so that the rice has the aroma of rice dumplings.  You can replace 150 gm white rice with glutinous rice but here, I used all white rice as I'm cooking this for some elderly people too.

A very nice savoury rice suitable as One Dish Meal for vegetarian diet.  This rice was served with Vegetarian Bak Kut Teh which is aromatic and light with vegetarian ingredients.

Ingredients

[serves 8]
original recipe from Kuali.com with some changes

600 gm rice - washed and drained

150 gm white beans [mei tau] - washed, soaked overnight and drained

2 tbsp sesame oil

1 tbsp oil

enough water to cook rice

several pieces of bamboo leaves - cleaned

6 dried mushrooms - soaked, drained and diced

100 gm salted mui choy - soaked, drained and chopped

100 gm sweet mui choy - soaked, drained and chopped

100 gm chopped chai por - washed and drained

30 gm dried crispy gluten - optional

1 tbsp grated ginger

Seasoning

2 tbsp Chinese 5 spice powder

1 tbsp salt

3 tbsp sugar

2 tsp pepper

1 tbsp dark soy sauce

1. In a wok, fry white beans without oil for a minute, then add in chopped mui choy, fry for a few minutes until ingredients are dry.  Push aside.
2. Add sesame oil and oil into wok, saute ginger until aromatic.  Add in the chai por and gluten crisps.  Stir fry for a minute.  Mix all the ingredients together.
3. Add in seasoning, then the rice.  Stir fry to mix all ingredients well or until the rice is quite dry.
4. Transfer to a rice cooker.  Add in the bamboo leaves and enough water to cook rice.
5. Remove the bamboo leaves, fluff up rice before serving immediately with vegetarian sambal [see recipe here] or chilli sauce and a vegetable soup if preferred.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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