Spicy Nasi Goreng
"Nasi Goreng is an Indonesian dish. It’s easy to do and the variations are endless. To date, there are three other vegetarian versions posted on Zaar; but I’ve checked and this one is different. The recipe is borrowed from the BBC’s Good Food magazine and posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
photo by Fairy Nuff
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 10 ounces long grain rice, rinsed
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 red chilies, thinly sliced
- 2 onions, sliced
- 3 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 yellow pepper, seeded and sliced
- 2 carrots, peeled and cut into matchsticks
- 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
- 4 spring onions, shredded
- 4 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
directions
- Place the rice in a wok, add 600ml water and bring to the boil, cover and cook over a very low heat for 15 minutes until the liquid has been absorbed; tip the rice into a shallow dish and leave to cool.
- While the rice is cooling, heat the wok then add the eggs and stir until scrambled; tip out into a bowl and set aside.
- Whizz the garlic, half the chilli and half the onion to a paste in a blender.
- Heat the oil in the wok and fry the paste for 1 minute; add the rest of the onion and chilli, plus the pepper and carrots and stir fry for 2 minutes; add the cold rice and stir fry for 3 minutes; stir in the soy sauce, spring onions and eggs and fry until piping hot.
- Season and stir in the coriander leaves; serve immediately.
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This is so good! We added more veggies just to get more in our meal -
I love this recipe. The only thing is for my husband and I this makes a lot more than 2 servings. It was enough for 7-8 plates full. Other than that, everything is exceptional. Thank you for the recipe. P.S. I like to make this with the Sesame Chicken Skillet recipe. -
very very delicious
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I had to make some very liberal changes, so can't really leave a rating. Just wanted to let you know I tried it, and liked it. This is a great base recipe and the variations are endless. -
This was great! I cooked it when away on holidays, when all I had access to was an electric frypan, and no scales / measuring cups. And it still worked perfectly - truely the definition of a great recipe! I used chilli flakes instead of the red pepper. I think any number of veges could go in here - for a non-authentic goreng, but still yummy! Reheats well. The egg adds a wonderful flavour, but I skipped it the second time I made it because I was freezing it, not sure if it was worth it though, because it suffered from the lack.
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This was great! I cooked it when away on holidays, when all I had access to was an electric frypan, and no scales / measuring cups. And it still worked perfectly - truely the definition of a great recipe! I used chilli flakes instead of the red pepper. I think any number of veges could go in here - for a non-authentic goreng, but still yummy! Reheats well. The egg adds a wonderful flavour, but I skipped it the second time I made it because I was freezing it, not sure if it was worth it though, because it suffered from the lack.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
