Simple Fried Rice

Ingredients:

2 cups uncooked Thai jasmine rice
4 cups water (for rice)
2 cloves finely chopped garlic
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/8 cup Maggi seasoning sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup frozen diced carrots
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
3-5 tablespoons of vegetable oil

Instructions:

To rice cooker, add 2 cups uncooked rice and 4 cups water.  Cook until done.  (Can also cook on stove-- follow package directions).  When rice is cooked, set aside until completely cooled. (Sometimes I cook rice the night before and refrigerate it overnight).

In a small bowl, slightly beat eggs and add garlic salt.  Scramble eggs in skillet with 2 tablespoons of oil until just cooked.  Set aside.

In large skillet on medium heat, add 3 tablespoons oil, cook garlic until golden brown.  Reduce heat to medium-low.  Add cooled rice, soy sauce, Maggi seasoning sauce, sugar and white pepper.  Mix well.

Defrost peas and carrots in a microwave safe bowl until tender (1-2 minutes on high).  Add to rice.  Lastly, add eggs back into rice.  Gently mix ingredients together.  Serve immediately.

Sweet Coconut Rice

Ingredients:
1 cup red skin peanuts
2 cups sweet glutenous uncooked rice

1/2 cup shredded coconut (sweetened)

1 cup coconut juice (water can be substituted)

1 cup water

1 cup coconut milk

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

Instructions:

Soak peanuts 8-12 hrs in a bowl of water.  Rinse peanuts and strain.  In a rice cooker, add rice, peanuts, coconut juice, water, shredded coconut, and salt.  Cook the rice as normal in the rice cooker.  Gently stir rice mixture, then drizzle coconut milk and sugar over mixture.  Use the cook cycle a second time with the rice cooker.  This gently melts the sugar and coconut milk into the rice mixture, as a result, the sugar does not burn.  

At this point, the sweet rice is ready!  However, if you are one for a crunch, I suggest a few more repetitious steps.  Leaving your rice cooker lid open, run the cook cycle on the rice cooker two or more times.  After the second time, flip the rice over.  The layer on top will be crunchy.  To make the layer on the bottom crunchy, run the rice cooker one to two more times with the lid open.