Rice – Burmese Vegan

San Byoke ( Burmese Congee )

Aye — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:00:55 +0000

San Byoke is Burmese rice porridge which is like Chinese congee. We eat it as comfort food on under the weather days. We also have this on winter cold days or in the night market in China Town and in some upper part of Burma as local daily food. According to my birth family, we always have this either on Sweet December Day or Christmas Day or on New Year Eve day. Recalling this family tradition, I realized how my family and relatives consider this food as our family comfort food and we perceive it as celebration food on a family occasion. Local people eat this food when they are not feeling well. For our family, this is one of our happy meals.

Sometimes, people cook this with overnight leftover rice which shortens the cooking time. And sometimes they just boil short-grain raw rice with a 1:2 ration of rice: water and cook a long time in the slow cooker. My tips would be to blend 2/3 of rice in a blender ahead of cooking to speed up your cooking time if you do have not much time to spend cooking. No matter what, the main point is to break down the rice to be a thick and smooth consistency of rice soup.

You can also serve your San Byoke with crispy onion oil or garlic oil to add flavor and color to your meal. And consider chilies oil if you are a fan of spicy flavor. Some people like to eat with fried dough or other fritters as well. I like to top with garnish like spring onion and parsley. My relatives love it with Shan mustard pickles.

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Tumeric Rice (Rice Cooker Version)

Aye — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:49:47 +0000

I love Tumeric as Burmese. Burmese put Tumeric in everything from medicine to every meal-prep in cooking. So, I love Tumeric rice which smells and tastes so good. Tumeric has many health benefits for us too. This is my go-to way of making Tumeric Rice. If you don’t have rice cooker and like to cook rice in pot. Please see this recipe also.

If you fall in love with Tumeric rice and always want to cook it in easier and quick way, make this Garlic Oil and keep it staple at home. You can just add this with rice, salt and water to create as another quick-fix way.

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Coconut Rice ( Rice Cooker Version )

Aye — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:39:52 +0000

When rice is steamed systematically in the rice cooker with coconut milk, coconut oil, and onion, you cannot ignore its texture’s creamy and moist-sticky flavor. With the sweet aroma of coconut milk, sweet taste from all other ingredients, this coconut steamed rice hits your taste buds in the best savory and subtly sweet sensation.

This Coconut Rice is the best made with long grain rice or Thai jasmine rice, as my friendly advice.

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