Recipes

Brown rice stir fry with roasted cashew nuts and chunky pineapple

Jun 19 08:40am
Serves
4
Ingredients
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 100 g mushrooms, sliced
  • 1/2 red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon grape seed oil or other vegetable oil
  • 1 diced red capsicum
  • 1 cup sweet corn kernels
  • 1 x 400 g tin chickpeas, drained
  • 2 cups cooked brown rice
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce or wheat free tamari soy sauce
  • 4 tablespoons mirin (sweet rice wine)
  • 1/2 cup chopped pineapple
  • 2 finely sliced spring onion
  • 1 bunch chopped coriander leaves
  • 1 bunch mint leaves, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons chopped roasted cashews
  • 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds
Method
  1. Pre-cook rice
  2. Stir fry the garlic, onion and mushrooms in 1 tsp oil until soft.
  3. Add the capsicum, corn, chick peas, rice, soy sauce, mirin and pineapple then cook for 1 - 2 minutes until heated through.
  4. Fold through the spring onion, coriander, nuts and seeds and cook through for another minute until heated through.
  5. Serve hot and enjoy.
  6. NB: Cooked roasted or poached chicken can be added to the rice if you like.

 

 

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