One of the great Asian (or, at least, Filipino) household problems: Salvaging last night’s steamed rice.
Here’s a quick and scrumptious way to resolve said problem, plus the added pairing of a quick and easy chicken tenderloin recipe. All in 6-second Vine posts.
(For those who are not familiar with Vine, it is a mobile app that “enables users to create and post videos” instantly.)
All in, the prep and cooking time for all of this should be about as quick as 15 minutes.
Let’s start with the chicken. As you can see from below, some of the ingredients are highlighted in the Vine video.
Ingredients:
- Tablespoon of canola/vegetable oil (to coat the pan – you can use as much as needed.)
- Mrs. Dash seasoning (i.e. Tomato-Basil-Garlic or Lemon Pepper)
- 2 lbs. of chicken tenderloin
- Optional additions: chopped garlic, ground black pepper, salt (to taste), lemongrass and/or ginger
(Serves 3-4)
Directions:
- Heat the pan and thinly coat with your oil, and as you do so, you can season your chicken to your preferred taste. (If you choose to go without salt, the Mrs. Dash seasoning is salt and calorie-free, so you can feel free to sprinkle.)
- If you want to use garlic, ginger and the lemongrass, you will want to toast them to before putting the chicken on the pan. They also season the oil and the pan in the process.
- Add the chicken. Sear until both sides are brown on medium-high heat. It should take about 5 minutes per side.
Now, the rice.
In this case, we have brown rice from the night before.
Ingredients:
- Steamed brown rice
- Vegetable/canola oil (again, to coat pan)
- Sweet chili sauce (a.k.a. Spring Roll sauce)
- 3-4 eggs (depending on how much rice you have)
- Optional: 2 tablespoons of soy sauce (for added color if you’re using white rice)
Directions:
This is really easy. Start with the eggs so it can cook and form. Add the left-over rice, and then your sweet chili sauce. You can eyeball the sauce to your taste preference. Mix lightly to break the eggs into the rice.
Easy enough, right?
And, if you love eggs as much as I do, you can top your rice off with an over-easy egg, too. That yolk goes well with the chili sauce.
Awesome for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Enjoy!
