five or less

[joanna]

Mushroom rice!

Fresh Mushrooms, Garlic, Olive Oil, Water or Chicken Broth, rice (+ salt and pepper)

Sautee mushrooms and garlic in olive oil, add rice and cook for a minute. Add liquid and make like regular rice.

if you use arborio or sushi rice, you have all the ingredients there for a risotto, too!

mmmmm risotto.

[WavyGravy]

I know if you saute chopped white onions in a little sesame oil, with a few shakes of ginger juice, it smells like a chinese restaurant. Then you can add the rice and other stuff 

[moonshake]

Anyone got a good fried rice recipe?

Add chopped up Kimchi to rrrratchet it up a notch.

[AllisonLeGnome]

Probably my favorite sandwich is the ridiculously simple pita bread, hummus, baby carrots (sliced the long way) and lettuce. I ate it for lunch every day for a while (before the phase when I ate yogurt every day- my school lunches were never very imaginative).

[Sarah]

Toast, butter, sliced tomatoes, salt, pepper = good.

[Gilly]

This isn't 5 or less but satisfies the question of fried rice recipes asked earlier. I liked this recipe a lot and I even left out the oyster sauce and peanut oil. With those in I bet it would be great.

http://www.wish.ca/print/recipe/289/

[Sarah]

Here's another fried rice recipe.  More than five ingredients, though.

1 c. rice, steamed and chilled
1/2 c. 1/4" cubes of ham (or bacon)
1/4 c. frozen peas, thawed
2 scallions, cut into 1/4" rings
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 tbs. soy
sesame oil and/or fish sauce to taste

Heat 4 tbs. oil.  Add ham, scallions, and rice.  Stir-fry till lightly browned.  Pour the eggs over the mixture.  Stir till set.  Add soy sauce and peas (and whatever).  Douse with sesame oil and/or fish sauce if you like.

Obviously, you can omit the meat if you don't eat the stuff.  And the fish sauce.  I think the eggs are sort of important, though, as a binder.

[Martin]

Thanks for the rice recipes, guys!

[joanna]

I think the eggs are sort of important, though, as a binder.

they might be important in that recipe but usually when eggs are in fried rice, you scramble them first, take them out, then add them back in the end. so they're not a binder at all, just another ingredient.

this thread is making me crave fried rice so hard!

[Trembling Eagle]

using Jasmine rice helps too.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Sesame noodles:

1. pretty much any kind of noodle
2. sesame oil
3. creamy peanut butter (i find the crunchy texture does not go so well with the pasta). mix it in when the noodles are still hot.
4. wee bit of hot pepper
5. sesame seeds


Kind of bland the way i do it, but fills me up big time. i'm thinking of trying a hint of brown sugar in it next time to see if i can give it a little more "vodee-oh-doe-doe-doe."

[erika]

One-dish Roasted Chicken, Potatoes and String Beans (or just potatoes and string beans for all the vegetarians out there)

Chicken breasts with skin
few tablespoons of Olive Oil
One orange
Red Potatoes, quartered or cut small
Whole fresh green beans

Salt + pepper

Mix zest from the orange, the juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. You can also add garlic. First coat the potatoes in the mixture and add to a large greased casserole. Then do the green beans and place around the permiter of the dish. Finally, do the chicken and place it in the middle.

Bake at 350 until done. I can't remember how long. If you have extra orange slices you can place some on top of the chicken. The green beans end up kinda roasted and crispy.

I use a big ziploc bag for this because it's really easy to just lightly coat each item. You should have enough juice mixture for everything.

[erika]

Pumpernickle bread + cream cheese + elderberry jelly

or

Pumpernickle bread + pitted and halved fresh cherries + cream cheese

oh my.

[AaronC]

Vanilla ice cream +  Chocolate magic shell + Peanut butter