Snacc Attacc is a bi-weekly video series where we try out different snacks and let you know if it’s worth “snacc-(a)ttacking”.
This week, we try three different ways of turning leftover rice into delicious meals that aren’t fried rice.
What do we do with leftover rice? Make fried rice, of course!
I’m one of the guilty ones who would deliberately cook too much rice and turn it into a quick, easy meal the next day, and I might have done this one too many times during CB.
If you’re sick of having fried rice, we tried three ways to zhuzh up leftover rice and turn them into exciting dishes.
Seaweed rice balls
Ingredients:
Oil
Seaweed
Leftover Japanese rice (or any other types of rice)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon salt (or less)
Sesame oil
Black pepper
Sesame seeds
Steps:
Heat up oil in a pan
Tear seaweed into tiny pieces and toss them in the pan on low heat
Stir until it turns crispy
Add one tablespoon of sugar and salt (you can tweak the amount according to your preference)
Add one tablespoon of sesame oil, a dash of black pepper, and sesame seeds
Mix rice into the seaweed
Squeeze seaweed rice into small balls with hands
These seaweed rice balls are often sold in Korean restaurants, you’d be happy to know you can easily make these little rice ball snacks at home to have with some drinks.
But you may want to cut down on the amount of salt as it was way too salty for our liking.
Spam musubi
Ingredients:
Spam; keep the container
Seaweed rice mixture (see above recipe)
Potato chips
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
Seaweed strip
Steps:
Slice up the spam and fry until golden brown
Crush up potato chips and add to seaweed rice mixture
Add one tablespoon rice vinegar into rice mixture
Layer the spam container with a cling wrap
Stack the fried spam and seaweed rice mixture into the container and press it down firmly
Remove the cling wrap from the rice mixture
Wrap rice mixture with a piece of seaweed strip for presentation
We’d suggest cutting down or don’t add salt at all for the seaweed rice mixture, as it was too salty when combined with the spam.
Apart from that, the spam musubi looked aesthetically pleasing and would definitely win over the kiddos, if you’ve run out of ideas for their snack time.
One-pan pizza rice
Ingredients:
Mixed vegetables
Leftover rice
1 egg
Tomato ketchup
Sausages
Mozzarella cheese
Steps:
Add mixed vegetables and rice in a large bowl
Beat an egg with a fork until it’s blended
Add the beaten egg into the rice mixture and give it a good stir
Place the rice mixture into a pan and flatten it
Spread ketchup on top of the rice
Layer it with sausages and sprinkle mozzarella cheese
Cover the lid and cook for 20 minutes
The one-pan pizza rice was the best leftover rice dish out of the three dishes that we tried. We liked how all the ingredients complemented each other. You can also add more ketchup if you like the rice to have more flavour.
Give them a try and let us know which of the three recipes you prefer!
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