Cashew Veggie Fried Rice

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Today I'm going to make cashew veggie fried rice. It's a wonderful, quick and easy, one pot and one dish meal.

We cheat a bit because you already have the rice cooked. Whenever you make rice or quinoa or whatever, make extra for just this kind of meal.

So lets get started chopping. When I chop broccoli, I use the whole stalk. Peel it first so it won't be tough. You can use any kind of vegetables you like in this. I happen to have broccoli, zucchini, carrot, celery, cilantro, frozen green beans, ginger and garlic in my fridge.

Besides using different vegetable, you can use different grains or noodles, you can make a stir fry and then make a sauce and add some beans or tofu or tempeh or seitan, different kinds of nuts.

Garlic, mince it. That's good enough for the garlic. Lets have at the carrots. Cut those in diagonal slices, very thin slices so they'll cook quickly, got my ginger minced up.

A lot of people add onion, but I'm not an onion fan so I just leave those out.

Ok I've got my pan heating up here, you can add olive oil to taste, I just use about a teaspoon. Some people don't like any oil and in that case you can just use a little bit of vegetable stock or water. Just add a tablespoon at a time and add more as needed.

Got that going, throw in the carrots, you can crank it a little bit till these carrots just get hot and then add the broccoli get that hot.

Basically it's stir fried or sauted and then steamed. I don't have a wok so this is how I do mine. This is a heavy bottom sauté pan.

I think this is going to be enough veggies, because I've got a big bunch of broccoli. I will add the frozen green beans at the end.

I'm going to add some spices, paprika about 1/2 a teaspoon, one teaspoon and a half of coriander, love coriander. I like curry spices with mine. This ground fennel, a little cumin a quarter teaspoon.

You can always spice it to your taste, some people like Mediterranean herbs or hot spices like chipotle pepper or cayenne. Thai spices or cinnamon, forgot to add the cashews. Usually I add those with the garlic and ginger so they get a little bit browned.

They'll still be good. Now I'm going to add a little stock. Or you can just use plain water. and steam them. Let's turn it up high till it boils and add the tofu. This is super firm tofu. It doesn't need to be pressed.

This is Braggs Liquid Aminos, or you can use soy sauce. Let that cook. I'll turn it down a bit. Give it Five. Here we go. So let's see how it's doing. Crunchy, could use another couple minutes.

I'll put in my frozen green beans now, they can cook during those two minutes. If I weren't going to put the rice in I would make a sauce with some arrowroot starch and some more of the veggie stock, or some coconut milk.

Here we are. Yah that looks great doesn't it? The tofu soaks up the flavors that are in the dish, so you don't really have to marinate it. If you just happen to have some marinated tofu sitting around in your fridge, well that's awesome, but I never think of doing that.

And frying it or baking it, that's an extra step but you can always do that and make a whole bunch extra, keep it in the fridge.

Now I'm going to add some rice. Two cups, that makes four servings or two large servings. A little squirt of lime juice, a little cilantro. You can add any kind of leafy green to this that you like. Chop some kale, use some baby spinach, chard or whatever.

Lots of basil, when it's dried basil you need quite a bit to get the flavor. Now carefully stir this, because it's so full!
There, that is it! Yummy. I already added some liquid aminos but you can add more if you want, or soy sauce you can add pepper, you can add Sriracha hot sauce.

Ok I think we're ready to eat this. Here is lunch today and supper later!

Thank-you for joining me to make cashew veggie fried rice, hope you enjoy it a s much as we're going to, take care and happy cooking and we'll see you next time!

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Meatless Monday: Cashew Veggie Fried Rice - video demo of a very popular recipe on our website - and at our house. It came from my daughter Zoe who has limited time and space for cooking, but loves tasty food. #friedricerecipe   #tofurecipe  #stirfryrecipe