Serves: 4
Preparation: 1 hour
Ingredients:
100g Mung beans (pre soaked overnight)
50g Soya beans (pre soaked overnight)
5 Crushed Juniper berries
2 Table spoons of olive oil
12 Small slices bread
10g Red Quinoa seeds
100g White rice
20g Wild rice
1 Large onion
1 Red pepper
1 Green pepper
1 tsp Saffron
1 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Turmeric
1 Large Bay leaf
Salt and Pepper
- Boil Soya beans for 20 minutes, drain and set to one side.
- Heat large pan with olive oil, add fine chopped onion and bay leaf, stir
until soften.
- Add drained beans and rice, stir for about 2 minutes on high heat.
Once mixture dries up, add 200 ml boiling water.
- Add chopped peppers, Quinoa, all spices. Season with salt and pepper.
- Keep adding 150 ml boiling water, little by little rather than pour all
the water in one go. Do not allow pan to dry.
- Stir gently regularly, this dish may take up to 1 litre of water and
about 25 minutes to cook.
- Taste rice to check if cooked. If so take off the heat and serve hot.
- If rice is not soft to the desired point, keep on low heat for another 10
minutes.
- Serve with bread or salad.
Beans help prevent constipation and hemorrhoids. This ingredient
can help lower cholesterol, fight cancer and stabilize blood sugar.