No one takes the pineapple significantly. It has been stereotyped in standard tradition because the “enjoyable instances” fruit, variously showing as an adjunct to the man from Del Monte, the star of the Agadoo track and the centrepiece of the cheese-and-pineapple hedgehog in a number of a long time’ price of kids’s birthday events. At present’s recipe, nevertheless, provides the pineapple an opportunity to develop up: its sweet-and-sour nature counterbalances the chillies, whereas its plentiful juiciness helps put the larger, bolder flavours of their place.
Thai-style pineapple fried rice
In the event you’re a baby of the Eighties (as I'm), you could be inclined to reintroduce the retro pineapple enjoyable by serving the rice in half a hollowed-out pineapple. Test if the fruit is ripe by pulling a backbone from the very centre of the crown: if it comes out simply, it’s ripe.
Prep 15 min
Prepare dinner 25 min
Serves 2, generously
500g leftover cooked rice, or 200g uncooked jasmine rice
Rapeseed oil
50g unsalted cashew nuts
8 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped
½ tsp fantastic sea salt, or to style
2cm x 2cm piece recent ginger, peeled and grated
4 fats garlic cloves, peeled and minced
2 crimson fowl’s eye chillies
250g recent pineapple flesh, minimize into 2cm x 1cm cubes (from a pineapple weighing a minimum of 800g)
250g inexperienced beans, topped
1 x 225g tinwater chestnuts, drained (140g internet)
1 tbsp curry powder
3 tbsp vegetarian stir-fry sauce – I like Lee Kum Kee’s
3 tbsp mild soy sauce
To serve
1 large handful Thai basil leaves
1 lime, minimize into wedges
In the event you’re making the rice from scratch, put the jasmine rice in a sieve and rinse very well underneath the chilly faucet till the water runs clear. Drain and put in a saucepan for which you might have a tight-fitting lid. Cowl with 340ml just-boiled water, carry again to a boil, then pop on the lid and drop the warmth to a simmer. Prepare dinner for 12 minutes, then flip off the warmth and go away, coated, to steam for 5 minutes. Unfold the cooked rice on a big plate and go away to chill to room temperature; should you’re not cooking it immediately, put the plate within the fridge uncovered.
Put a tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan for which you might have a lid and set it on a medium warmth. When the oil is sizzling, add the cashews, fry, stirring, for a couple of minutes, till golden, then scoop out on to a plate. Put one other couple of tablespoons of oil in the identical pan and, when that’s sizzling, add the spring onions and a half-teaspoon of salt, and fry, stirring, for 3 minutes, till tender and neon inexperienced. Add the ginger, garlic and chillies, stir-fry for 2 minutes, then stir within the pineapple and fry for a minute. Add the inexperienced beans and the water chestnuts, combine nicely, then cowl the pan and go away to cook dinner for 5 or so minutes, till the beans are tender and bending: if the combination begins to stay and the beans should not but flexible, add a splash of water to the pan.
Stir within the curry powder, then pour within the stir-fry and soy sauces, and go away for a few minutes, for the components to get to know one another. Add the cooked rice and blend in gently – I discover a spaghetti fork helps me do that with out breaking apart the rice an excessive amount of. Flip up the warmth to excessive and fry laborious for 5 minutes, turning midway by. As soon as all the pieces is piping sizzling, end up on to a platter, scatter over the Thai basil leaves and fried cashews, and serve with lime wedges alongside.
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