Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Rice Rice Baby - 5 Elements Coconut Rice w/ Cardamon

For a long time I thought rice is just too boring to cook with. It turned out that I simply never had tasted really good rice before I found this recipe in a five elements cookbook by Barbara Temelie http://www.barbaratemelie.de/Bucher.html, which has lots of interesting food pairings if you are into traditional chinese medicine (and cooking, which is more or less the same in TCM).
The trick is that Basmati rice is cooked with cardamon and ginger, and then further aromatized in a pan with shredded coconut, raisins and nuts. For all you rice-lovers, enjoy! and the anti-rice folks: just give it this one try, you may change your mind....
This rice goes extremly well with any oriental vegetarian dish, and with another recipe I posted recently: Pumkin curry a la Plachutta /blogger.g?blogID=544044521224737309#editor/target=post;postID=4749492252549865921

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