A delicious and super healthy one pot dish. The broccoli lightly steams over the rice conserving nutrients and adding bite to the soft rice and beans. A zingy and garlicky spicy dressing brings the whole thing together.
Ingredients servit 2
150 ml (5.25 uncias fluidi) brown rice (use a liquid measuring jug to ensure the correct volume of liquid or use the US cup method to have twice to the volume of liquid to rice)
50 ml (1.75 uncias fluidi) red rice
a few dried mushrooms
unum inch (2 et I / 2cm) piece of gingiber, tritum
a large garlic clove, tritum
viridi chilli, finely chopped
100g (3 et 1/2 unciarum) broccoli florets, sliced vertically
100g (3 et 1/2 unciarum) chestnut mushrooms, divisa
100g (3 et 1/2 unciarum) black beans drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons of toasted sesame oil
sucus dimidium calcis
2 tablespoons of finely chopped red onion
a tablespoon de soy liquamine
teaspoon Agave nectar
sal et piper
a medium ripe avocado
Method
Soak the dried mushrooms in a 100ml (3.5 uncias fluidi) of hot water. Add half of the garlic and ginger to the water.
Rinse the rice and put it in a lidded saucepan with 200ml (7 uncias fluidi) of salted water and bring to the boil. Add the dried mushrooms and the soaking liquid to the pot, reduce to a simmer, put the lid on and simmer for 15 minutes
For the dressing put the remaining garlic and ginger in a bowl or jar with the soy sauce, lime juice, Agave nectar, chopped chilli, red onion and toasted sesame oil. Add some black pepper, a pinch of salt and shake or stir
After the rice has been simmering for 15 minutes put the broccoli pieces on top, followed by the mushrooms and then the black beans. Put the lid back on and simmer on the lowest heat for a further 10 minutes. Check that the rice is cooked and then using a large serving spoon carefully lift the ingredients a couple of times to mix the vegetables through
Serve topped with the dressing and diced avocado over the top