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30-minute meals: Veggie rice bowl recipe
This vegetarian meal is both delicious and easy to make.
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You will need:
- One tablespoon vegetable oil.
- 120g broccoli tips, halved lengthways.
- One red pepper, seeded and cut into chunks.
- 160g pack marinated tofu pieces.
- Two 250g pouches microwave rice.
- 200g frozen peas.
- One tablespoon sesame seeds.
- Three spring onions, chopped.
- One red chilli, seeded and finely chopped.
- One garlic clove, crushed.
- Two and a half centimetres piece fresh ginger, grated.
- Three tablespoons soy sauce.
- Two tablespoons sweet chilli sauce.
- One tablespoon rice wine vinegar.
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What to do:
Heat the oil in a wok. Add the broccoli and pepper and stir-fry, over a high heat, for three minutes. Add the tofu and cook for one to two minutes, until crisp.
Tip in the rice and stir-fry for four minutes, breaking up the grains as they warm. Stir through the peas and cook for a further two to three minutes.
Meanwhile, make the sauce. Mix the chilli, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and vinegar in a bowl. Pour it over the rice mixture and toss until coated and warmed through.
To serve, spoon into bowls and scatter over the sesame seeds and spring onions.
- Recipe obtained from www.realfood.tesco.com.