When I go to a Thai restaurant, I often go with the fried rice. I love pineapple fried rice, but generally, the dish comes with shrimp. This makes it expensive. As a vegetarian, I naturally ask to omit the shrimp, but they still charge the same price. This inspired me to make it myself.
Since time is often a factor when I'm cooking dinner, I kept an eye out for pineapple fried rice seasoning, so that I wouldn't have to mix the spices up myself. Like the spring rolls I made a couple of weeks ago, I found a pineapple fried rice paste at a local asian market. The rest, of course, is from Trader Joe's. Here's a list of the ingredients:
1.) 1 Packet of Pineapple Fried Rice Paste
2.) 3 Spears of Pineapple
3.) 1 Package of Organic Firm Tofu
4.) 1 Handful of Thompson's Organic Seedless Raisins
5.) Sliced Onion
6.) 1 Organic Roma Tomato
7.) 2 Packages of 10oz. Organic Brown Rice
I'll often mix in Jalapeno juice, similar to the small cups they give in Thai restaurants. You can add cashew pieces as well, but I'm not a fan of it in fried rice. To make this dish, open the two packages of rice into a frying pan, with a little olive oil. Then mix in the seasoning packet, and stir for a couple of minutes. After that, I put in the rest of the ingredients, with a little pepper, and stir until the the pineapple fried rice paste has mixed through everything. The amount of ingredients I listed makes quite a bit of fried rice, enough to serve 3 or 4.
I hope everyone enjoys it, you can contact me with any questions or comments at thehungryvegetarianblog@gmail.com
See you next week!
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