Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Nasi goreng in February

Tonight's dinner was nasi goreng, with cucumber/carrot salad and spring rolls, really filling and I got lunch for tomorrow.


Nasi goreng, February version

left-over rice
1 spring onion
1 cup cashew nuts
1 egg, beaten
sambal oelek
ketjap manis
salt

Dry-roast the nuts. Add some oil to your wok or pan. Add a large or a small spoon of sambal.
Stir it around for a few seconds. Add the rice. Fry it for some time, breaking up the rice as you go, add the onion and the nuts, stir it around. Add some salt. Add some ketjap manis. Add the egg and keep stiring until the egg is cooked.

For the cucumber/carrot salad, I used a recipe in this wonderful book: Kina - Matens rike by Linlin

Cucumber/carrot salad

1 carrot
1 small piece of cucumber
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tespoon sugar
2 teaspoon dark rice vinegar
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/4 chicken stock cube

Slice the carrot thinly with for instance a potato peeler. Bring some water to the boil, when boiling add the carrot, bring it to the boil. In the mean time, slice the cucumber. Drain the carrot after the water has started to boil again. Rinse the carrot slices under cold water. Mix the vinegar, sesame oil, salt, sugar and chicken stock cube with the cucumber and carrot.

I bought the spring rolls at the supermarket. 



NOTES 
I always try to cook more rice than I need, because then I'll get rice to the leftover next day for lunch and I'll get rice enought to make some kind of fried rice for dinner. 
I think a smaller spoon of sambal is enough, note to self, if you start coughing while frying up the sambal - you've probably put in to much ;)
However, the heat from the sambal was balanced out by the cucumber/carrot salad, but I don't think you really need the chicken stock cube, it doesn't really add anything. 

Where things were bought:
Sambal (from Holland of course :P) 370 g, 20 kr, dark rice vinegar 500 ml, 24 kr - Oriental Supermarket
Ketjap manis, 250 ml, 26 kr - East Trading Wang

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