Blue Pea Flower Fragrant Rice With Curry Chicken

This is the fastest and easiest way to prepare my lunch today. It took me less than one and a half hours from cooking to serving (including the time I went to buy the chicken, coconut and vegetable from the market). I bought the instant curry paste from Melaka a week ago. My children and I agreed that it tastes better than A1 brand. This is my first time cooking rice with blue pea flower. It looked so beautiful and appetizing compared to our routine plain white rice.

My verdict: Good and fragrant. I definitely will cook again.

Recipe:

Ingredients: (for 4 persons)

3 cups white rice, washed and drained

1.1/2 tbsp cooking oil

3-4 cardamom

some black pepper to taste

25g young ginger, chopped

1 heap tbsp dried blue pea flowers/15 fresh blue pea flowers.

4 pandan leaves

1-1.1/2 tsp salt to taste

water ( for cooking rice)

Method:

1) Heat up oil, stir-fry chopped ginger until aromatic. Add in remaining ingredients except flowers, and stir-fry until fragrant.

2) Transfer the rice mixture into a rice cooker, add water, salt and flowers and cook until done. Discard flowers and pandan leaves. Serve with your favourite curry.