In an attempt to make an authentic spiced curry, have you ever thought, "I wonder if I should try making some spice rice along with my curry?"
But it seems difficult, and you don't know what to do with any leftover food, and after thinking about it, you're likely to settle on "well, plain rice will do."
For those who don't like all that hassle but still want to make their curry taste better, here's some good news.
By combining spices with rice dishes familiar to us Japanese, you can make spiced rice , which will broaden your options for curry making and allow you to create curries that are both original and high quality.
Furthermore, it also helps you consume large amounts of spices, which tend to expire, so it's a must-see for those who only cook on weekends.
easy!
delicious!
You can use up all your leftover spices in one go!
We would like to introduce you to a new recipe for spiced rice that will help you make that wish come true.
First, let's take a look at some of the things izon has actually provided to customers in the past to give you an idea of what it is all about.
Acquapazza + Cooked Rice
This Italian curry was created with an Italian cuisine motif and combines acqua pazza with seasoned rice.
Acqua Pazza is a simple Italian fish dish that uses plenty of herbs. This dish is a twist on rice cooked with fish stock and shredded fish from Acqua Pazza, seasoned with pink pepper and herbs.
Spiced chicken rice
Yemeni curry is served with spiced chicken rice.
In the Middle East, there is a rice dish called Chicken Mandi, and the original recipe is:
- Basmati rice soaking
- Boiling basmati rice
- Bake in the oven with other ingredients
- Fry in a frying pan
It is completed through a process such as the following.
That,
- Jasmine rice cooked in a rice cooker
It has been simplified to.
Although it does involve some work, such as marinating the chicken in spices, it's still much easier than the original process.
There are many types of rice, but jasmine rice is recommended for cooking with spices.
Just like making rice with Japanese rice, if you quickly wash the rice and cook it in a rice cooker, it will come out fluffy and fall apart, and it goes great with curry.
Sea bream and paprika rice
For the Hungarian curry, I made sea bream rice cooked with paprika.
It's spicy sea bream rice.
In the local area, there is a rice dish called halasle, which uses river fish, but as many of our guests cannot eat river fish, we combine sea bream rice with spices.
Taimeshi is a type of rice dish that is familiar to Japanese people, so one of the great things about spiced rice is that it gives you a sense of familiarity when you eat it.
Bouillabaisse and squid ink rice
For French Guiana curry, we made bouillabaisse and rice cooked with squid ink.
It may be a little shocking because it's pitch black, but it's a delicious rice dish made with squid ink soup and seafood stock plus spices, and is bursting with the flavor of seafood and the aroma of spices.
Rice cooked with spices goes well with light soup-based curries.
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What did you think?
In this way, by making your own original spiced rice, you can create a curry that looks innovative depending on your imagination.
The basis is the concept of cooked rice.
All you have to do is put the rice, stock, and ingredients into a rice cooker and cook the rice as you normally would.
Add some spice to it and customize it to your liking.
If you usually make chicken curry,
"Chicken rice base with herbs..."
If you're making green curry,
"Let's try adding some spice to Khao Man Gai..."
You don't have to come up with a completely new idea from scratch, just make some adjustments to familiar rice dishes and you can enjoy curry with rice that tastes much better than a simple spiced rice.
I will also be writing about the specific steps and recipes on my blog, so please look forward to the practical version of "Spiced Rice."
Finally, an announcement.
Izon, a spice restaurant aiming to create art through curry, will be participating in the KYOTO EXPERIMENT fringe project again in 2024, with plans for a third curry collaboration (around October 2024).
The izon T-shirts designed by Aiko Koike , the art director of KYOTO EXPERIMENT, are now on sale at the izon store.
It's a really nice design, so if you're interested, please take a look.
