So I made black bean and rice soup today, but greatly overestimated how much rice to use. I now have about a cup & 1/3rd of cooked white rice in my fridge. So any ideas on how I can turn this into a breakfast (well, brunch really) food?
Warm it up and eat it with butter. Sugar is optional, as is cream.
Or make rice pudding. You won’t have brunch, but you will have dessert.
There is a Japanese breakfast dish which consists of white rice, raw egg, and soy sauce to taste. I don’t care for it texture wise.
My grandmother always reheated leftover rice in a skillet with butter, added egg(s), and scrambled the whole mess. Yummy and versatile, since you can, of course, add onions, ham, sausage… pretty much anything you like with eggs. The rice is just a base for the other flavors.
this. chop up whatever you feel like, leftovers or whatever you have extra in the fridge, and you have fried rice.
Have you heard of kedgeree? It’s a famous British breakfast/brunch dish, invented during the time of the British Raj in India: it uses rice, curry powder, smoked haddock and eggs, and it is delicious.
Tamago-kake gohan. However, you need freshly-cooked rice.
How about another Japanese dish? Omu-rice.
Stir-fry your rice with small bits of chicken and chopped onions and season it with ketchup. In another pan, cook an omelet and wrap it around the rice. It should look like this:
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You can vary the rice seasoning as well as the meat and the sauce, although the standard recipe uses ketchup.
Rice cakes. Favorite way to use up rice around here =) You could cheat and just make basic pancake batter and chick in rice =)
My mom made some sort of rice cakes that was not as pancake-y, the batter was not liquidy, it was more doughy but not raised with yeast. Unfortunately the recipe is lost =(
Fried rice! Scramble a couple of eggs, add a couple tablespoons of oil, the rice, some soy sauce, and peas and carrots (frozen). Dicing up some cooked bacon and adding that is also great.
My simplified version involves opening a tin of kippers, breaking them up, and mixing them into the reheated rice.
What’s wrong with rice pudding for breakfast? It involves milk and eggs, both acceptable breakfast foods, and also hopefully some raisins or the like, also nice for breakfast.