Shortcut for Making One Pot Rice

Do you know that leftover rice kept in the fridge can become too dry? 

When I have to heat up a bowl of leftover rice in the microwave oven, I always add a tablespoon of water to it.  If I used leftover sauce, I will heat it up in a pot over the stove. I can add water to the sauce if I think it is not enough for the amount of rice I am heating.  Once the sauce is boiling, I will then add the rice to heat up. Once the rice is fully heated, I will taste it to see if I need to add any other sauce to enhance its flavour.  

Recently, I used the excess sauce from cooking Ginger Soya Sauce Chicken to heat up a bowl of leftover rice and discovered that it tasted just as flavourful as claypot rice.  

These are the ingredients used for making a basic claypot rice.

You can see how the ingredients are prepared and cooked in this video: 

These are the ingredients I used for making my ginger soya sauce chicken.

As my family do not eat food that are too sweet or salty, I am able to double the amount of water for making the sauce.  However, should I found the sauce too bland, I can always add sugar, soya sauce and oyster sauce accordingly.  Once the sauce is boiling, I will pour the excess sauce out into a bowl for storage.  Then I continue to cook the ginger soya sauce chicken till the sauce thickens.

When I use the sauce from my ginger soya sauce chicken, I can also include the additional seasoning sauce and ingredients used for flavouring the clay pot rice which are as follows:

-Sesame Oil

-Shaoxing Wine

-Chinese Sausage 

-Fried Shallot Oil

-Tsp Sesame Oil

-Spring Onion 

-Fried Shallot

If I want Chinese sausage in the rice, I sliced one thinly to pan fry in a little oil.  Once it is ready, I add the sausage and a little of its lard to the rice.  It should taste good enough even without the spring onion and fried shallots added.

BLANCHING VEGETABLES TO COOK WITH OYSTER SAUCE

This is a 3-ingredient dish.  You will need:

1) Vegetables with heartier stem
2) 2-3 Tbs of oyster sauce
3) Fried garlic with oil

Watch this video to have a look at how the blanched vegetable is cut and served.

 

Leftover rice? Boil porridge with it.

If you cooked your rice with too much water, you can solve the problem by making porridge with the leftover.

Put rice in a pot.



You can add leftover dish like steamed minced pork or oyster sauce chicken to the rice to add flavour to it.  Bones, if any, should be removed from the leftover dish.

If you do not have any leftover dish to add, you can use marinated sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish.  Add fresh ingredients to the pot of rice once the water is boiling.

Ingredients for marinating sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish:

1) Soya sauce
2) Sugar
3) Garlic Oil
4) Corn flour

Add ginger slices or ginger juice to fish.

This is the bowl of leftover steamed minced pork which will be used to make the porridge.



Fill the bowl of leftover dish with boiled water.  That will make it easier to pour dish into the pot of rice and make cleaning up the bowl easier.



Pour the ingredients into the pot of rice.  Add more hot water to cover over the rice.  Turn on heat.  Reduce the heat once the water starts boiling.

Watch the fire, as you do not want the water to boil over and mess up the stove.  Lifting the lid off the pot a bit will prevent that from happening.

Add salt or soya sauce to taste.  This is how the porridge should look like once it is cooked.



You can add pepper to the porridge if you want to.

If you do not add any ingredient to the porridge, you can eat the white porridge with salted egg, salted fish and preserved vegetable.