Simple and delicious Chorizo Rice ( Chouris pulao cheat recipe)

Ingredients:

1. One medium sized chorizo cut into small cubes
2. One large onion roughly cut
3. One carrot cut into small cubes
4. Half a bell pepper cut into small cubes
5. Tspn of chilli sauce
6. Salt
7. Two tbspn of Olive oil
8. Two large cups of boiled rice (pre-cooked).


Cooking:

In a pan add chopped chorizo and carrot. Add two cups of water and let simmer for 15minutes. Now add the onion and cook till the water dries, add olive oil chillie sauce and bell peppers. Stir to mix everything, make sure at this point the chorizo is nice and moist with a little liquid still remaining. Now add the rice and mix thoroughly to blend the flavours into the rice. Add salt as per taste and fry the rice for about a minute to absorb the flavours. Now remove the pan from heat and serve hot.

Spicy Beef stir fry

Ingredients:

1. 250 grams Fillet beef, sliced thinly
2. One tbsp oyster sauce
3. One tbsp hot chilli sauce
4. One tsp fish sauce
5. One tsp soya sauce
6. Two green or red chillies, sliced
7. One tbsp corn flour
8. Two tbsp White wine
8. Salt
9. Three cloves of Garlic, thinly sliced
10. A inch of ginger, sliced and cut into match sticks.
11. Olive oil
12. One small bell pepper, cut into inch and half strips.

Cooking:

Mix beef in oyster, chilli, soya and fish sauce. Add corn flour and salt and allow to stand for about 25 minutes. Now heat olive oil in a shallow pan and add the meat, brown on both sides and then add ginger and garlic and stir fry. Now add chillies and 3 tbsp of water and allow to cook. Finally add the bell peppers and the wine. Cook for a further 5 minutes stirring to blend the flavours.

Serve hot with white rice. This dish can also cooked with pork.

Vegetable and egg fried Rice with pepperoni

This one is a interesting take on fried rice. Last night I was thinking what would I make for my office  lunch box for the next day and I was feeling a bit lazy. On most days I'm a vociferous carnivore, since I didn't want to put in to much effort, so I looked into the fridge to find out what I had that I could use readily.
I knew I had some veggies and some pre-cooked rice. So I thought I will cook veggie fried rice but It didn't feel right without any non-veg so I added some eggs to it to make it more appealing to my palate and luckily found some pepperoni too. It turned out I can't just do anything totally veggie. What started as a lazy effort to cook turned something into really nice tasty fried Rice.

Here's what I used for the dish ( serves two).

Ingredients:
1. One small sweet pepper (Bell peppers) cut into small pieces
2. About five florets of broccoli cut into small pieces.
3. Half a Courgette cut into inch long strips (these are cucumber like veg, lately I have taken a liking for them. I use them for stir fry's as well regularly) 
4. 2 eggs
5. Olive oil
6. 6-8 slices of pepperoni cut into small squares.
7. Salt
8. 2 cups of pre-cooked rice.
9. Fish sauce


Cooking:

Heat some olive oil in a shallow pan and scramble the eggs with a pinch of salt. Once done remove from pan and keep aside. Now a add a tablespoon of olive oil to same pan and stir fry the cut veggies for a minute and add pepperoni, cook for a further two minutes. now add the pre-cooked rice and mix well along with the scrambled eggs over heat for a further a minute. Add salt and 2 tablespoons of fish sauce and stir to combine the flavors. Remove the pan from heat and serve hot.