Recipe
I ate rice for all three meals. Here's how I did it.
Rice is such a versatile ingredient. It can be a side dish, a main course, a palette cleanser...really anything you want it to be! Not only does rice have its own comforting taste, but it also soaks up flavor like no other grain. With plenty time on my hands during the coronavirus pandemic and shelves full of food, I decided to eat rice for all three meals. Spoiler alert: it was just as amazing as I thought it would be.
Breakfast
I'm not a morning person, so an easy meal for breakfast is a necessity. Fried rice is the perfect solution. It's simple to prepare, simple to cook and you can put anything you want in it. Additionally, you don't even need fresh rice. Leftover rice works just as well. Here we have another reason to applaud rice: its longevity.
Fried Rice
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice
- 4 eggs
- 1 celery stalk
- 1 carrot
- 1/4 cup onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- Spam/ham/tofu
- Salt
- Pepper
- Furikake
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Lunch
The midday meal should always been a lighter one in my opinion. During a day dedicated to eating rice, I couldn’t omit onigiri, rice balls, the traditional Japanese lunch.
Onigiri
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice
- 2 sheets seaweed
- Umeboshi or smoked salmon
- Sesame salt
- Salt
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Dinner
It’s time to finish off the day with something delicious. We of course have to make something a little bit fancier than the other meals because you’ve got to end the day with a bang! A popular dish is donburi, which is usually something fried over rice. There are lots of different variations of donburi. Popular types are tendon (tempura over rice) and katsudon (fried pork over rice).
Katsudon
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup panko
- 1/2 cup oil
- Pork or chicken filets
- Carrots
- Onions
- Soy sauce
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Even after this period of staying home all day ends, don't forget about these incredible rice-based dishes. They're easy, tasty and appealing to everyone.