Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, amaranth pumpkin rice 苋菜南瓜饭. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pumpkin not only enhance the food flavoring, it also provide healthy benefits to our body. I learnt to cook this homely pumpkin rice (南瓜饭) from my friend koalabear (thank you!). There wasn't much of a selection; still, it was all new to me, and I bought some of the grains sold in bulk bins: brown rice, millet, kasha and wheat berries.
Amaranth Pumpkin Rice 苋菜南瓜饭 is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Amaranth Pumpkin Rice 苋菜南瓜饭 is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have amaranth pumpkin rice 苋菜南瓜饭 using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Amaranth Pumpkin Rice 苋菜南瓜饭:
- Make ready 1 bowl small cubes pumpkin
- Prepare 1 large onion sliced
- Make ready 1 and half pressure cooker measuring cups of Thai fragrant rice
- Get Olive oil, himalayan pink salt and white pepper
- Take 220 grams bunch amaranth sharp or round spinach washed
- Take 2 pressure cooker measuring cups of tap water
Like snow pea shoots, amaranth greens are one of my favorite vegetables to stir-fry: Slightly astringent when raw, the greens turn soft and mellow as they cook down. Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals. The tiny poppy seed-size "grain" was a staple of the Aztecs and Mayans.
Steps to make Amaranth Pumpkin Rice 苋菜南瓜饭:
- Induction cooker choose stir-fry mode and set at 100°C. Fry slices of onion in the fry pan with olive oil until fragrant.
- Then put a bowl of cubes pumpkin in the fry pan and fry with onion, add half a tea spoon of pink salt and half a tea spoon of pepper, fry until cubes of pumpkin turn dry.
- Wash and rinse one and half cups of Thai fragrant rice. Put the rinsed one and half cups of Thai fragrant rice with two cups of water into electric pressure cooker pot.
- Transfer stirring fry pumpkin onion from the fry pan and lay on top of the uncooked rice in the electric pressure cook pot, do not mix. Close and switch on the electric pressure cooker and cook for 28 minutes under cook rice for fine cooking selection.
- Prepare 220 grams of amaranth spinach, remove the roots and break into small pieces. ln order to let body easily to absorb other nutrients, put amaranth spinach in the boiling the water for 4 minutes to make it soft, then drain the water out. Transfer the cooked amaranth spinach to a porcelain bowl, cut it into small pieces with a pair of scissors.
- Transfer amaranth spinach from porcelain bowl to the pressure cooker pot and mix with cooked pumpkin and rice, add in olive oil and mix well. Transfer it to a plate and ready to serve.
We must admit that we initially weren't quite sure about amaranth, though. The first time we cooked it for dinner. Dried Chilli Chicken Cubes Rice 宫保鸡丁饭. Definitions for 苋 pronounced as xiàn. amaranth (genus Amaranthus). While I knew locally we called this xian cai (苋菜）as spinach but I do not know why it is called as such.
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