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May 6, 2015

Peppery Vegetarian Rice | Wok Wednesdays

Peppery Vegetarian Rice from Karen's Kitchen Stories

On the schedule for this week's Wok Wednesday is this Peppery Vegetarian Rice. It's made with brown rice, two eggs, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, scallions, and pine nuts, all easy ingredients to find. The rice is seasoned with ginger, crushed red pepper flakes, soy sauce, vegetable broth, salt, and white pepper.

At first I though the dish would be fairly simple tasting. There's no garlic, bean sauce, rice wine, and all of the other ingredients (that I have amassed since beginning this adventure) that come together magically in the book's recipes. However, with the first taste, I noticed the ginger combined with the peppers and all of the other ingredients melding together to create an amazing burst of flavor.

This rice is so good. Trust me.


Peppery Vegetarian Rice from Karen's Kitchen Stories

The other cool thing is the egg. I was able to fry the thin egg "pancake" in my wok without it sticking! It worked better than Teflon.

As Grace Young describes in her book, Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge, cooked rice makes a wonderful canvas for a variety of ingredients you have on hand.

The rice is made the day before and refrigerated overnight in keeping with the theme of throwing a bunch of leftovers into the wok to create a delicious impromptu masterpiece.

I had pine nuts in my freezer, which I toasted in the toaster oven (well, actually, I burned the first batch in my toaster oven. I watched the second batch more closely), but you can use chopped toasted cashews, pecans or almonds if that is what you have.

Peppery Vegetarian Rice from Karen's Kitchen Stories

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You can find the recipe for this rice on Sara Moulton's page.


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  1. I enjoyed making this and loved the burst of flavor, too. I love your photos and how you presented it in the pretty bowl.

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    1. Thanks so much LIsette! I got it at World Market!

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  2. big smile at the double take on pine nuts... been there more than once, I am afraid ;-)

    this rice bowl sounds like a perfect meal in itself....

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    1. It was seriously good Sally, sans black pine nuts, lol!

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  3. Beautiful, beautiful, photos (& bowl)! This was surprisingly delicious (well, all Grace's recipes are delicious), surprising, considering the ingredients. Looking forward to the next recipe! Hopefully I will be able to find the aji amarillo chili... Have a good weekend, Karen, and have a happy mother's day!

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    1. Thanks so much Cathy! I'm going to have to read ahead. Thanks for the reminder. You have a good weekend too =)

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