Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Spicy peanut rice
Leftover rice, peanut loosened with lime and chili. A side that is dinner.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Leftover rice, peanut loosened with lime and chili. A side that is dinner.
What it needs
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- rice
- peanut butter
- chili flakes
- lime
- garlic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: scallion.
Method
- Loosen the peanut butter with hot water first until pourable. Straight into the pan it seizes and catches.
- Chili and garlic warmed in the oil before the peanut goes in.
- Fold it through hot rice off the heat, never in a hot pan — peanut sauce splits and goes oily above a simmer.
- Lime at the end and again at the table. Peanut is heavy and needs the acid twice.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- peanut butter
- Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
- chili flakes
- Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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