Taking the Calories Out of Rice

by Dr. Ana

Not too long ago I posted on FB that I was in the clinic cooking rice, rice and more rice.

White rice.

Aromatic Basmati rice.

Wild rice.

I just read an article about research showing a way to cook your rice and eliminate 60% of the absorbable starch.

Now there’s 60% more reasons to use the early preparation strategy to pre-cook, cool, freeze and then reheat your rice when you’re ready to make a meal!

Try this really excellent recipe:

Absolutely delicious lemon rice. Prepared with 60% fewer carbs!

Lemon rice with peanuts and curry leaves

Gently spiced rice with mustard seeds and smoky curry leaves, laced with caramelised shallots and notes of citrus. You can eat it with a little pickle, a tamarind based rasam or with anything really. Curry leaves are hard to find unless you’re near an Asian shop or a big supermarket, but they’re easy to buy online.

Serves 4 
3 tbsp (any) oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
3 tbsp unsalted peanuts
2 green chillies, slit lengthways
20 curry leaves (Always avail n an Asian shop but if you don’t find any, make the recipe and use curry powder) 
4 shallots, halved and finely sliced
½ tsp turmeric
Juice of 1 lemon (around 35ml)
1¼ level tsp salt 

1 Prepare the basmati rice, with coconut oil, let it cool, refrigerate (or freeze for later) and use for this recipe (as in the article on reducing the digestible starch by 60%!)

2 Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and when hot, add the mustard seeds. When they pop, add the curry leaves, peanuts and chillies and stir-fry for 1-2 minutes.

3 Add the shallots. Cook for 10-12 minutes or until soft, caramelised and sweet. Set the heat to low, add the salt, turmeric and lemon juice, stir then add the rice. Fold the lemon, shallot and curry leaf mixture through the rice until it’s well mixed.

5-Flavors Energetics of food: Mustard Seed & shallots are warming and pungeant; Peanuts are sweet; turmeric invigorates the blood; and the sour lemon is pungent.  Overall, this dish raises energy and improves blood circulation.