If you live in Malaysia and you live eating at Nando's then you must know about the spicy rice. I like it sooo much but it could be pricey eating at Nando's daily .. at least with my salary. So I tried recreating the diah.. with little knowledge of Portuguese recipes. Nando's is Portuguese right?
I've made it a couple of times and I think it tastes nice. Lol.. for this recipe I'm using long grain rice. So I have to soak the rice first for at least 10 minutes before cooking.
Ingredients:
1 cup of uncooked rice (cleaned and soaked for at least 10 minutes)
Boneless chicken breast (skin removed)
1 green bell pepper
1 small onion
1 small tomato
Mushroom (i usually use swiss button mushrooms for this recipe but you can use any mushroom you'd like as long as it tastes good when grilled)
1 cup of water (or stock)
Coriander leaves
1 clove Garlic chopped finely
1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
chilli powder
2 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon lime juice
Method
1. Cut the chicken into small squares. Not too small and not too big. Marinade the chicken with salt, pepper and a few teaspoons of chilli powder. Cover and set aside.
2. Cut the vegetables (green bell pepper, onion,mushroom,tomato) to about the same size as the chicken. Bite size but not too small.
3.Heat the pan. Spray some cooking oil.
4. Brown the chicken. Not too long enough to brown it. Remove chicken. Set aside. Spray the pan again and brown the onion. Again not too long. We just need to have it charred. Repeat with the rest of the veges.
5. After the last vegetable has been charred, put the olive oil in the heated pan.
6. Stir in chopped garlic.
7. Add the drained rice. Stir. Add turmeric powder and the chilli powder. Stir the rice.
8. Add water (or chicken stock if you'd like). Stir the rice.
9. When the water reduced, add the charred veges and chicken. Stir.
10. Stir in chopped coriander, salt and pepper to taste.
11. Let it simmer.. when you don't see anymore water, turn off the heat and cover the pan fully. Let the rice sit for another 10 minutes.
12. Add the lime juice and stir thoroughly and serve warm.
If you like your meals hot eat it with peri-peri sauce. Baked sliced almonds would be great as garnish.
Enjoy!
