This article will feature the following:
¶ Brief introduction to pineapple fried rice.
¶ Recipes for cooking pineapple fried rice.
¶ procedures involved in cooking pineapple fried rice.
¶ Nutritional values of pineapple fried rice.
Introduction; pineapple fried rice is one of the several varieties of rice delicacies. It is one of the Asian cuisines but have spread across different countries of the world. The delicacy is quite popular but certainly not as popular as normal fried rice. It is a specialty delicacy in the sense that it is usually not readily available in some restaurants and fast foods unlike other varieties. Therefore, its availability is mostly on demand basis.
In families, it is not also cooked on regular basis. Sometimes, it is only cooked during ceremonies, family reunion, birthday parties, anniversaries or the likes. Ingredients used varies from individual to another but the basic of the ingredients is pineapple, eggs and shrimps because these are what makes the difference from other type of rice delicacies like the conventional fried rice.
Pineapple fried rice doesn’t require curry powder which is what give the yellowish green colour to the conventional fried rice. In this case the pineapple gives that yellowish appealing colour coupled with the nectar-sweet aroma which it impacts on the rice, giving it this sweet savouring and yummy taste, flavour and aroma.
Recipes/ingredients for cooking tasty pineapple fried rice.
° 3 cups rice.
° A sizable pineapple fruit.
° 250g of shrimps.
° 1 sliced onion bulb.
° 250g of sliced chicken.
° 2 raw eggs.
°150g of Sliced carrots
• 150g of chopped green beans.
• 25g of sliced green pepper.
° ¼ spoon of salt
° 5g of ginger powder/ground fresh ginger
° 5g of garlic powder.
° seasonings to taste.
° 5-7g of crayfish powder (optional)
° 25g of Scotch bonnet
° 80ml of Vegetable oil.
° 900ml of clean water.
Procedures for for cooking tasty pineapple fried rice.
1. Parboil and wash the rice, then pour about 20ml of vegetable oil into the cooking pot and set up the source of heat. Add some portion of the sliced onion and fry mildly for few seconds. Then pour water into the pot, if you are using chicken to cook and you had parboiled the chicken, you can use the water. add two cubes of seasoning, add salt, a small portion of the ginger and garlic powder. Cover pot and cook for 12-15minutes. I always ensure the rice don’t over cook so that it will give me strands instead of having sticky rice as a result of overcooking. So you have to taste intermittently and turn off the heat source immdiately the rice is reasonably cooked. Another way you can prepare the rice is to boil it just white without having to add any ingredients at this point. But I like to add some quantity of ingredients while cooking the rice because the taste of the pineapple fried rice is better when cooked this way because the rice gets to properly absorb the ingredients hence, the great taste. When you are done boiling the rice, pour it into an open bowl or basket for it to cool. When it’s cool, it helps for a better strands that will give the best of eye appeal and mouth feel. Some people prefer to use overnight rice but I don’t quite advise this especially if the rice wasn’t refrigerated.
2. Place a non sticky pan on the source of heat, pour in 40ml of vegetable oil, mildly fry the sliced chicken, remove from oil and put in a plate. Thereafter, break the two eggs into the oil, add a pinch of salt and fry mildly until scrambles are formed. Thereafter, remove the scrambled egg using a table spoon into another plate.
3. Pour another 20ml of vegetable oil into the pan, add the remaining sliced onion (if you had used some portion during the cooking of rice) and fry mildly for few seconds, pour in the shrimps and fry for few seconds. Then pour the sliced pineapple fruits, the green beans, carrots and green pepper. Fry together for atleast 2minutes, then add the rest of the remaining ginger, garlic, crayfish, scotch bonnet, seasoning and a pinch of salt (if still necessary) and mildly fry for additional 1minute.
4. Pour in the cooled rice, stir properly so that the the ingredients will be evenly distributed on the surface areas of the rice. Cover the pan and cook the whole mixture for 5minutes. Open and then pour in the scrambled eggs and chicken, stir and cook for additional 20seconds and bring down the cooked savoury pineapple fried rice.
The delicacy can be served with any drink of your choice or fruit juice.
Nutritional values of pineapple fried rice.
Pineapple fried rice is a true definition of balanced meal because virtually all the basic food nutrients can be gotten from the meal.
1. The chicken, eggs and shrimps are excellent sources of animal proteins while proteins from the green beans as a plant complements that from the animals. Therefore it is certain that all the essential amino acids are complete in the meal.
2. The rice is the chief carbohydrate source in the meal so, maximum energy value is guaranteed.
3. The spices has immune system boosting, anti inflammatory, anti oxidative and anti microbial properties. So, these properties are supplied in the meal. Aside this, they are responsible for that savouring taste, flavour and aroma of the meal.
4. The pineapple supplies reasonable amount of vitamins and minerals in the meal, notably ascorbic acid and some other vitamins. It also add colour to the rice, depending on the specie of pineapple used for the cooking.
5. The vegetable oil and the oil from chicken supplies the needed fats, vitamin E, Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9 fatty acids, not forgetting Vitamin A.
6.The eggs also supplies reasonable amount of vitamins especially the B-complexes like Biotin.
7. The carrots is a good source of Pro-Vitamin A owing to yellowish pigment know as Beta-carotene.
In summary, you can see from all the above explanations that pineapple fried rice is a nutritionally balanced diet. It is also worthy of note that the recipes and procedures as itemized above are all mine, you can make any adjustments on any of the ingredients especially in terms of quantity and nutritional needs at anytime you want to cook it. You might also see a slightly different methods and choice of ingredients in any other platform but the basic ingredients remain the same for preparation of pineapple fried rice.
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