Instead of using rice for "fried rice" I substituted quinoa. Quinoa is pronounced "keenwah" in case you were wondering, or you can start a new trend by just pronouncing it as it sounds. ;) It turned out quite good, and quinoa is like crazy healthy. It's becoming more well known now which is great - because it's so incredibly good for you. You can usually find it in the loose dry goods section and buy it by the the lb or whatever amount you like. If not you should be able to buy it boxed in the pasta - rice type aisle at your grocery store.
Ingredients:
2 chicken breasts
1/2 cup of quinoa
1 cup of water
1/2 head of broccoli
Handful of mushrooms (any kind will do)
1 carrot
5 radishes
1/2 onion
3 garlic cloves
1 Tablespoon of ginger
1 egg
Cilantro and green onions to garnish
1 Table spoon of sesame seeds
soy sauce - to your taste
fish sauce - to your taste
mae ploy - to your taste
Salt and pepper as needed
Canola or sesame oil as needed
To make:
Cook chicken breasts. To cook quinoa, combine water and quinoa, a drizzle of olive oil and salt - bring to a boil then turn down very low and cook for about 15 mins or until all water is absorbed into quinoa. Quinoa is always a 2-1 ratio... water 2 and quinoa 1. In a very large saute pan or wok saute onions and mushrooms together, then add garlic and ginger, next broccoli, carrots, and radishes. Don't cook too long, as you want a nice crunch still. Now it's time to assemble everything: add chopped up cooked chicken to vegetables in pan and 1 scrambled egg and quickly stir everything to combine the egg well. Next add in soy sauce, mae ploy, fish sauce and lastly cooked quinoa. Just flash everything quickly in pan because the quinoa will get mushy if left on the heat too long. Now garnish with sesame seeds, cilantro and green onions. You could even add some chopped peanuts, I didn't have any on hand or I would have.
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