Healthy cooking: Brown rice, japanese fried rice style

I woke up late again.  I was up till 2 AM last night to finish one of my photo editing backlogs. I know, I know… I love to procrastinate that’s why. 

At 10AM, it’s too late for an oatmeal breakfast and too early for lunch.  Since I plan to continue working for the rest of the day,  and I’ll be eating lunch alone anyway, I decided to cook my brunch…. Japanese fried rice!  But with a healthy twist.  I used brown rice and lots of veggies.

My version is a meal on its own – with ham, veggies, egg, brown rice and Clara Ole’s Ora Mix Mo, a Japanese fried rice flavor mix.

I steamed some Chinese bokchoy and reheated last night’s dinner – breaded cream dory to go with my fried rice.

Here’s the recipe:

1 cup cooked brown rice

3 broccoli florets, cut into small pieces, pre-steamed

2 tablespoons  minced carrots

I clove garlic, minced

1 slice of forest ham, cut into strips

1 stalk leek, separate green and white portions;  the midsection I used for garnish.

1 egg, lightly beaten

Salt & pepper

Enough oil to coat the pan.

Heat oil in pan,

Pour eggs on hot pan, stirring until cook; set aside.

Saute garlic, white portion of leeks, carrots and ham.

Add brown rice.  Toss until everything is blended.

Add eggs, broccoli florets, the green part of leeks.

Season with salt & pepper.

Transfer into a bowl and garnish with sliced leeks.

Now how hard can that be?  ;)

For dessert…. Reese’s peanut butter cups that M brought home last night.