Fried Rice Quinoa
Ingredients
- 1 fresh egg
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped green shallots or red onions or spring onions or any onions really
- 1/4 chorizo chopped
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 Tbsp tamari / soy sauce
- few drops of sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
- 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- 1 1/2 cups cold cooked quinoa
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- a few kale leaves finely sliced
- white pepper + more tamari to taste
Instructions
Directions:
- Carefully crack your egg into a ramekin and put a small sauce of water on the stove on medium
- Heat oil in a fry pan/wok over medium heat & add the garlic, onion and chorizo and cook until soft. Remove from the pan.
- Turn the heat up and add the cold quinoa to the hot fry-pan along with the tamari & sesame oil and stir occasionally until heated through / the quinoa starts to catch
- Add back cooked garlic/onion/chorizo and stir through the quinoa along with the Chinese five-spice and chilli flakes
- Toss in frozen peas and kale, and stir to combine until the peas are thawed
- Check seasoning and add pepper / extra tamari to taste
- Once the water is boiling gently, carefully slide the egg into the water and leave 3 mins (for runny yolk) or 4 mins (for hard yolk)
- Transfer quinoa mix into a bowl and place the poached egg on top with a slotted spoon
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