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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Spicy peanut rice

Leftover rice, peanut loosened with lime and chili. A side that is dinner.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Leftover rice, peanut loosened with lime and chili. A side that is dinner.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • rice
  • peanut butter
  • chili flakes
  • lime
  • garlic

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: scallion.

Method

  1. Loosen the peanut butter with hot water first until pourable. Straight into the pan it seizes and catches.
  2. Chili and garlic warmed in the oil before the peanut goes in.
  3. Fold it through hot rice off the heat, never in a hot pan — peanut sauce splits and goes oily above a simmer.
  4. Lime at the end and again at the table. Peanut is heavy and needs the acid twice.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

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.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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