Baked Pumpkin Rice

I managed to get a small pumpkin just enough for two person. I have a craving for chinese sausages and chestnuts of late and a sudden crave for this baked pumpkin rice.  So , knowing me, I put all the ingredients I love together and baked them in this cute little pumpkin :)  I lightly fried the chinese sausages so that all the fat from the chinese sausages will melt and this will make the rice less oily.  I asked WB to help diced the sausages, chestnuts and chinese mushroom...I am so lucky now I have an assistant to help me prepare this dish. Now I am very good at giving instructions and hope my assistant will continue to render his services to me at all times :p   This dish is easy to prepare once the dicing and cutting is done.  I mixed the cooked rice with the fried sausages, diced mushrooms, chestnuts and diced pumpkins and added sea salt and black pepper as seasoning.  Packed the rice mixture into the cleaned pumpkin. ( cut the top and scooped out the seeds and threads from the pumpkin ) Close the pumpkin with the top and wrapped the pumpkin with aluminium foil and bake at 200 degC for  35-40 mins.  Serve rice together with the pumpkin wedges.  Oh -so- yummy !

the rice is packed with flavors...the aroma from the sausages and mushrooms

infused into the rice while baking in wrapped foil....yummy!

If you have guests, this would be ideal to serve them

easy to prepare and yet delicious at the same time

Baked Pumpkin Rice

ingredients :

1 pumpkin - size depends on individual and how many persons you are serving 

cooked rice - amount depends on how many persons your are serving

chinese sausages - fried and diced

ready packed chestnuts - diced

a slice of pumpkin - diced

chinese mushrooms- soaked till soften - diced

sea salt to taste

black pepper to taste

Method:

Preheat oven - 200C

Cut off the top and scooped out the seeds and threads from the pumpkin. Wash and drain off water from the inside of the pumpkin.  Combined the cooked rice with the diced ingredients and season with sea salt and black pepper.  Fill and packed the pumpkin with the rice mixture. Cover with the top and wrapped the pumpkin with aluminium foil.  Baked the pumpkin for 35-40 mins.  Take out and cut the baked pumpkin into served and  served the rice together with the pumpkin wedges.

Enjoy !

Cured Meat - Chinese Sausages And Waxed Duck Leg

Cured meat - waxed duck leg and chinese sausages was once a upon my favorite . Due to healthier diet, I have cut off this cured meat for some years but recently I received 2 pairs of wax duck legs and a kg of chinese sausages for CNY.  Thank you so much Elaine for gifting this delicious cured meat to us.  Wow, after some many years of abstaining from eating these chinese cured meat , it became  a rare delicacy to WB and myself :p Anyway, I steamed these delectable and aromatic meat for our dinner .

To make it less oily and waxy ,  I poured hot boiling water on the duck leg and let it immersed in the hot water for 20 minutes.  I then removed the skin and fat from the duck meat. And for the Chinese sausages, I removed the skin too. Cut them into biteable sizes and then steamed them for 30 minutes . Before steaming , I added 1 tsp of light soy sauce.  While they were steaming in the steamer, I prepared onions pickles.  Sliced one big red bombay onion into thin slices.  Add calamansi juice to the onion slices.  serving the steamed cured meat, garnish tthe meat with the pickled onions.  Count the calories later. We both tucked in like a glutton and had more than what we are supposed to consume in LOL!   Nom nom nom ...it was heavenly ! :)

Chinese Fried Rice

Sometimes when you have cooked rice for dinner and then at the last minute decided to eat out. What would you do with the cooked rice ?  For me, I will pack them into zipper bag and keep  in the fridge for the next day lunch. I  can be fickle minded at times and experiencing mood swing  of late.  LOL! fried rice is the best remedy for over night cooked rice !   I received some chinese sausages during the CNY two months ago and the sudden craving for these chinese sausages led to the making of this chinese fried rice :)  Read on for the recipe :)