Sweet fresh pineapples combined with some seriously spicy rice.
The nice part about belonging to the food blogging community is that one will never run out of ideas. There are a zillion inspirations at a blink and a click – beautifully presented, uniquely combined urging you to try your hands on immediately.
I had come across the Pineapple Fried Rice at Rasa Malaysia a long time back. I wanted to wait for the nice fresh pineapples to show up in the market before I made this. Finally I got my first pineapple this year (that was in April and you can easily conclude that this is another draft cleaning endeavour – Oh well!) and came across Usha’s version of the pineapple fried rice on the same day. Lunch time is not the right time or may be just the right time to blog hop – whatever way one sees it; for immediately I found myself in the kitchen making the pineapple fried rice.
Here is my version – quite spicy and sweet and very very good. As with any other fried rice this is a very adaptable recipe. Jasmine rice or Basmati Rice works too. Left over rice works fine and it is really a fantastic way to use up the extra rice in the fridge. If you wish to add any other vegetables you may use. I would have used some spring onion if had some.
Serving the fried rice in a hollowed out pineapple makes it look truly beautiful and appetizing but I really did not have the patience for the art work. Late afternoon, a gorgeous looking fried rice and all I needed to do was to eat. Lip smacking good!
Brown Rice and Pineapple Fried Rice
Ingredients:
- 1 cup short grained brown rice, uncooked
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 2.5 – 3 cups water
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2″ ginger, very finely sliced or grated
- 2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 green bell pepper, sliced
- 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
- 2 hot chili peppers, slit
- 3/4 cup peas
- 1.5 cup fresh cubed pineapple or as much as you want (may be replaced with canned pineapples)
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce like Sriracha
- 1 tablespoon pineapple juice (If using canned pineapple, save some of the juice)
- 2 tablespoons Asian sesame oil (use 100% pure sesame oil)
- salt to taste
- fresh cilantro/coriander for garnish
Preparation:Cook the brown rice in 2.5 – 3 cups water with salt and 1 teaspoon oil. (the cooking time will vary with the kind of brown rice you are using). I usually use a rice cooker to cook brown rice; it is a surer way to cook and they do not get mushy. Try to keep in mind that the fried rice with be better is the rice stays separate. You might need to adjust the amount of water with the kind of rice you would be using. Cool the rice.
Heat up a wok and add the sesame oil. Stir-fry onion, ginger, garlic, pepper flakes and the green chili until aromatic for about 2 minutes.
Add the red and green bell peppers, peas and the pineapple pieces and stir them around quickly at high heat for only a couple of minutes or until the pineapple just starts to caramelize. Do not overcook – the vegetables and the pineapple needs to stay crunchy and fresh.
Add rice, salt hot sauce, pineapple juice and dark soy sauce . Stir everything together to blend well with rice. Stir-fry for another minute or so. Garnish with fresh cilantro/coriander leaves.
Serve immediately.
Pretty colors, nice flavors, a lot of texture and taste combined and very very satisfying.
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Lip smacking good. No pineapples in the house but got some brown rice waiting to be cooked. Tomorrow afternoon lunch, done. 🙂
I like that you use brown rice as the ‘fried rice”. I am quite sure it will taste different from the usual Thai jasmine(white) rice but with the added nuttiness and the sweet citrus of pineapples….it must be delicious too 🙂
I do get many food ideas from food blogging too.
What a great combination of flavours.
I agree with the other commenters: This looks great! The colors make it look fantastic.. You have great presentation skills (and cooking too of course! ;))
Do you use Twitter? I’d like to receive more of your recipes!
Thanks a lot! Yes I am on twitter (http://twitter.com/soma_R)
I love pineapple in my fried rice..delicious! As usual mouth watering clicks Soma!
Mmmm … aaj no breakfast … ar ei snaps … ar ei recipes. Aj boro dukkhur din amar.
Fab recipe Soma … and I love mishti bhaat ektu jhaal jhaal … so ekdom perfect for me. Must try … must try. 🙂
Healthy and delicious! I love the combination.
Cheers,
Rosa
Very well presented! 🙂
Hey Soma, your pineapple rice with brown rice looks deliciously good. I love this combo boosting with health and flavors. Lovely photographs too!
That looks amazing! I can see why you rushed into the kithen. I do love pineapple, but I think I would skip the peas. Beautiful photos Soma 🙂
I love pineapple and this rice looks really delicious. A very lovely Click!
Sweet and spicy, looks colorful and tasty.
This looks wonderful, tasty and healthy. Beautiful photos.
This preparation looks delicious. Very colorful as well. Pineapples look great.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Lovely, beautiful colours in the rice!!
I could go for that bowl now! I like brown rice in fried rice too because not only does it taste great, but the firmer texture holds up better in the wok. Never added pineapple to my fried rice before. Sounds amazing.
wow, i love this sweet spicy combo!
Yum! The pineapple fried rice sounds so good!
I realize I love pineapple with spicy food. Tried with jalapenos and I’m in love with it 🙂
Miss you around on FB. all okay, Soma?
I really need to try this…. Love ur presentation… including the write up…. great work Soma!!
nice! i also love to go brown for fried rice, if only it was always handy
Beautiful colors and such wonderful pictures. Earlier i used to be hesitant to mix veggies and fruits together in a dish. But now a days i enjoy the combination. You are one of my source of inspiration for that, Soma.
I love pineapple fried rice! Great idea using brown rice, so healthy!
Looks killer. Am sure it tastes killerer!!!
Oh, wow! This sounds WONDERFUL and looks delicious. This has been bookmarked! Can’t wait to try this!
xxMK
Delightful Bitefuls
The fried rice looks amazing Soma ! Great presentation as usual. I am so glad you tried and liked this, I loved the changes you made to it, will give your version a try soon 🙂
Pineapple and rice was an unusual combo rice. It has all the tropical flavor in bowl 🙂
I like pineapple, but it gives me itchy throat.
Your Pineapple Rice looks very beautiful.
Pineapple fried rice looks wonderful. So simple too..bookmarked! Excellent way to use up my brown rice.
Hi, I made this last night for dinner except that I had to take anything out that was spicy in it because the people i was making it for couldn’t have anything spicy because it would upset there stomach. Because of this I had to add in some more soy sauce to make up for flavour and I think if I made it again I would add in some fish sauce too. I also didn’t have any coriander and tasted fine without it and also added in some celery. It was my first time making pineapple fried rice and it tasted great! Will definitely be doing it again. Thanks for putting this recipe up and taking such wonderful pictures. Cheers.
[…] -Pineapple Fried Rice: Used white rice, omitted the 1 tsp oil, onion, bell peppers & chili peppers, used ground ginger instead of fresh, used a pea & corn mix instead of just peas and added almost another cup of pineapple and a tbsp of sweet and sour sauce to mellow out the spice a little. Turned out terrific! […]
really delicious and rich colors 🙂