Love To Bake Taro Rice


Taro is what people from this portion fondly telephone phone yam. Yam is non taro as well as taro is non yam, actually.

Yam is from the Dioscoreaceae theatre unit of measurement as well as Taro is from the theatre unit of measurement Araceae.
It's but similar a cat is from the felidae theatre unit of measurement as well as the cow is from Bovidae family. Although both moo-cow as well as truthful cat are mammals, y'all don't mean value they are the same, right?

So, how tin the yam as well as the taro endure the same? Yeah, they are edible roots, but hey, yams are creepers as well as taro grows firmly on land. Orang Utans as well as humans stimulate got two hands as well as two legs... but I'm no orang utan.

But create y'all know that okra as well as the beautiful national bloom of Malaysia, Hibiscus is from the same family, Malvaceae???  And the rose bloom is inwards the same theatre unit of measurement equally apples?? Plant Taxonomy is a complicated thing.
Gave me headache during my 2nd twelvemonth inwards Uni. I loved these subjects, but memorising them was a nightmare. I was literally calling out the names of trees whenever I meet them, but similar calling a friend past times name.

"Hi there, Samanea Saman

Pterocarpus Indicus,I meet you

Thunbergia laurifolia, beautiful violet flowers"


Anyway, enuff said, let's swallow to a greater extent than or less Taro Rice..




Taro Rice Recipe
Serves three or 4

400gm peeled taro cubes (it was 500gm earlier peeling)
three shallots, finely sliced
two Tbsp dried shrimps, soaked as well as drained
100gm minced meat (chicken or pork)
iv dried shitake mushrooms, soaked, diced
two Tbsp lite soy sauce
two Tbsp black soy sauce (If using those black caramely soy sauce, delight role alone 1 Tbsp as well as role an additional Tbsp of lite soy sauce)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1.5 cups thai fragrant rice or jasmine rice, washed as well as drained (1 loving cup is 250ml, delight accept note, non the i that comes amongst your rice cooker)
three cups H2O (It seems a lot of H2O for this type of rice grain, but accept Federal Reserve notation that taro volition absorb a lot of water)
three Tbsp cooking oil

1. Heat wok as well as position inwards oil.
2. On medium heat, sauté shallots until golden, drain as well as dish up.
3. On high heat, position inwards taro cubes as well as fry until surface of the taro is really slightly golden as well as seemed to stimulate got taken on a crust. Drain as well as dish up.
4. On high heat, position inwards soaked dried shrimp as well as fry until fragrant amongst remaining crude inwards wok. Put inwards minced meat as well as fry until it turned opaque. Try to suspension upwards the meat, don’t allow it clump together inwards large clumps. Then position inwards the mushrooms. Cook for 10 seconds as well as if it is besides dry, add together inwards a few tabular array spoons of water. Season amongst soy sauces, common salt as well as sugar. Turn off the heat.
5. Return taro to wok as well as position inwards rice equally well. Toss everything together a few times. And position them into your rice cooker.
6. Put inwards H2O as well as create accordingly. Let rice sit down inwards the pot for fifteen minutes earlier fluffing the rice.

I create non ain a rice cooker, as well as I ever role the microwave to create i pot rice. So, what I did was, position the rice mixture into a microwave prophylactic cooking vessel as well as pour inwards three cups of boiling water. Zap on high for iv minutes. Let it balance for 5-10 minutes. Zap to a greater extent than or less other iv minutes. Let the rice sit down for minimum xx minutes earlier serving.

I was taught to zap the rice a few times instead of i long catamenia of fourth dimension past times my kids’ nanny. This way, I alone role 50% of the zapping time. Saves a lot of power.


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