Chinese Sausage & Rice
Description
This Chinese side-dish features Raw white rice, Water, Chinese sausages. The flavors come together beautifully. A reliable recipe that works well for everyday cooking. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.Ingredients
Directions
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The MOST typical use of sausage is (hold your hat - another strange locution but slightly more comprehensible) steamed on rice.
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Plain.
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Poor people's food (actually, a poor people's special treat) but quite satisfying: Bring the rice to a
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boil in 2 1/2 c of the water.
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Lower heat to low and cook 10 min.
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Meanwhile, slice sausages into thin diagonal strips.
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Add rest of water to rice and cover top of rice with sausage strips.
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Some people add scallion or ginger but I prefer the flavor pristine.
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Raise heat to the boil again and then lower to low again.
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Steam until sausage fat is transparent and rice is done, 5 minutes or so more.
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Serve with soy sauce on the side.
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To take this dish one step up, use sticky ("glutinous" or "sweet") rice in the usual way (requires somewhat more water and more careful cooking).
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To take this dish to its artisanly conclusion,
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cook the sticky rice separately;
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let it
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cool ;
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cut it into 8 portions and
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spread 4 portions flat on the center part of a lotus or other large, tough, nonpoisonous leaf.
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Take the sausage strips and
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cut them into smaller pieces, and top each portion of rice with a portion of sausage.
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Add a small amount of chopped bamboo shoot, chopped scallion, and chopped dried shrimp (previously soaked in sherry for 1/2 hour) to each serving.
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Make a sauce from 2 T soy sauce and 1 T broth boiled together and thickened with 1/2 t cornstarch (mixed into 3/4 t water).
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Apply two teaspoons of this sauce to the top of your dish.
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Top this mess with the other 4 portions of rice and crimp the edges together.
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Now: carefully bring the sides of the leaf up to make an envelope, and tie with twine.
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Steam for 5 minutes or so and serve
Nutrition Facts
Servings 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 117.0kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 0.3g1%
- Saturated Fat 0.1g1%
- Cholesterol 0.0mg0%
- Sodium 0.9mg1%
- Total Carbohydrate 25.2g9%
- Dietary Fiber 0.4g2%
- Sugars 0.0g
- Protein 2.4g5%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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