Category: Rice bowl meals
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Spicy Korean Tofu: A Simple Recipe with Gochugaru
I recently discovered a Korean tofu factory that sells fresh tofu from the factory door. It’s a little hole in the wall place next to the Korean corp of the Salvation Army in Belmore. They do a roaring trade selling basic white tofu, silken dessert tofu with ginger sauce and fried tofu pockets in various…
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Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews Recipe
You can never have too many braised tofu dishes in your repertoire. This one from Deborah Madison is a particularly good one. It’s a wok and rice pot meal that gets dinner done fast in the mid-week lull when all cooking inspiration has disappeared. I like to serve this with brown rice, but I’ve temporarily…
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Celebrate Summer with Easy Nasi Lemak Recipes
It’s starting to heat up in Sydney, we’re eating later and with the rising humidity it becomes increasingly difficult to decide what to eat let alone what to cook. When the heat is on, it’s time to go back to grain bowl basics. I’m not a huge fan of Malaysian food, but I love their…
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Healthy Nasi Goreng with Brown Rice and Asian Greens Recipe
During my two brief stints as a singleton and cooking for one this January, I fully embraced the grain bowl as a way of eating healthily and economically when on my own. I discovered the delights of farro (which is still a bit of an unexplored grain with me) but my fallback when I’m on…
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Tahu Telur Recipe: Light and Wholesome Indonesian Tofu Omelettes
I recently came back from a work trip and with an almost bare refrigerator and my family away at the beach for a couple of days, the question of what to cook became a pressing question. With no desire to schlep down to the shops, I cooked up a pot of brown rice and made…
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Vegetarian Gallo Pinto: Traditional Costa Rican Red Rice and Beans
Gallo Pinto – rice and beans – is a one of the most well known dishes from Costa Rica. I’d never heard of it until a few months ago, when I was browsing through Jamie Oliver’s Super Food Everyday, where he showcased a 94-year-old Costa Rican man, who gave as one of the reasons for…
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Peng’s Home-Style Tofu Recipe | Hunanese Cuisine | Chinese Vegan Dish
This is another recipe from one of Fuchsia Dunlop’s wonderful scholarly cookbooks on Chinese food – The Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. This book concentrates on the food of the Hunan province, which was Mao Zedong’s home province, so it is this style of cooking that features in many Chairman Mao’s favorite dishes. During the ‘great…
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Braised tofu with shitake mushrooms, tomatoes and peas
This is one of my favourite comfort food dishes. It’s the combination of rice and peas, like the Italian risi e bisi, that I find particularly irresistible. There is something very cleansing about this dish, which really allows the silken tofu to shine. The recipe comes from Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Food – the original…
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Vegan Mapo Tofu Recipe
There’s nothing worse for a vegetarian to be in a Chinese restaurant and see a luscious platter of mapo tofu being taken to another table and then when you try and order it, you’re told it isn’t actually a vegetarian dish. All that glorious tofu and they have to ruin it by throwing in a…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 