Healthy Pumpkin Rice!

There are always times where there is a bit of everything left behind in the fridge that are waiting to go expire that we almost forgot about it. Now it's the time for me to take them all out and do something with it. I came across this pumpkin rice while watching TV, so I decided to use that idea but use butternut squash instead of pumpkin since that's what I have leftover from making carrot soup (which the recipe I will put up in the next post, so stay tuned!). I also add a few more ingredients that I found in my fridge that has been sitting in there for awhile:P

You will need:

(5 servings)

1/4 butternut squash

180g beansprouts

200g mince pork

white cabbage

rice

soy sauce 

sugar 

cornflour

oyster sauce (optional)

Method:

1. Since it's really hard to get the skin off the butternut quash, so first cut the butternut squash into smaller chunks. Remove the seeds inside as well. Then put them to boil for a few mins so as the squash softens, it becomes easier to remove the the skin, just cut away the skin with a knife and cut the chunks into smaller bite size pieces.

2. Prepare the rice in the rice cooker. use 85% of water that you would normally use for the rice. After 5mins, add in the squash so it covers the rice but still being in the water.

3. Wash and cut the white cabbages into bite size pieces. Then let it boil until it softens. Add some alt to give it some flavour.

4. Wash the beansprouts and in a pan, add in some oil and stir fry the beansprouts for 3mins and then add in a little bit of water and some salt to let it cook for 4 mins. Then take it off the heat.

5. Marinate the meat with some soy sauce, sugar and cornflour. Cook the meat and add in the bean sprouts. You may add some oyster sauce to give more flavour.

6. Once the rice is ready, mix it with the rest of the cooked ingredients.

Note:

- You can create your own variation of this with other ingredients too! For example, you may use chicken thighs instead, or add in some spinach, eggs, sweetcorn etc and create your own tailor made healthy rice.

- The rice I used has mixed grains in it and this dish is rich in vegetables(nutritious!.) Not much oil was involved since majority of the ingredients were prepared through boiling! Healthy option for sure!