 and welcome to healthy healthy cooking 101 with the sisters. So my name is Nicole and this is Diana and today we are going to do a cooking demo of a way to jazz up your rice but before we get into that Diana can you please pray for us? Yes please let's pray. Most gracious Heavenly Father we come before you thanking you for an opportunity to be able to share the wonderful recipes that you have been able to give us and I pray that even as we do that it may give you glory and honor in Jesus name of faith and belief amen thank you so much. So just a quick intro growing up I thought rice could only be eaten one way and that was just boiled. I don't know what to do yeah didn't you know exactly exactly white but as I've come to grow older and understand cooking and just you know explore different options I've understood and I've learned that rice can be made in a variety of ways different communities countless yes different communities all over the world have different ways of making their rice and who is to stop us from trying every now and then so today we'll be making the Mexican fried rice and before we start. This clay is really good and I've been to Mexico so like you know this is good. Yes so Diana will show us the ingredients we are working with today so of course we have rice and today we're working with brown rice we pre-boiled it as you can see and even before we continue you can always do this to kind of use your leftovers but change it up so instead of eating rice yesterday and then there's rice leftover in the fridge instead of serving it the same way you can always choose to fry it. After that we have cut bell peppers we have the green the yellow and the red we have tomatoes blended tomatoes and this tomatoes I blended them with a little bit of tomato paste just to add you know a little kick in there we have salt we have a spice mix and in my spice mix as Diana is showing you I have cumin I have garam masala and I have turmeric so those are the three spices I'll be using for today and this is open to anyone whatever spices you like in your home you can always add them and then I have some sweet corn which was canned I just drained out the water and put it in a bowl and I also have crushed ginger and garlic we all know ginger and garlic lifts up every meal literally every meal should have ginger and garlic yes so I'll just put on my fire and this meal doesn't need a lot of oil so just put a little bit so that my rice doesn't stick to the bottom but we have a liquid that will be able to allow it to be fine so maybe one to two tablespoons of oil is enough and in that case then you boil your rice because I'm going to boil their rice with salt and oil yes for this case you don't have to because we use oil in one here when we're frying it yes and also adjust if it's rice you had made prior and you had used salt you just choose to omit the salt in this step just there's a lot of wiggle room just do this and make it to work caters to you and your family okay so yes please um pass me the tomatoes dana you don't mind yes so yes they're blended and we'll toss them in right in just put it right in there today I'm an able assistant to my baby sister yes thank you dana um yes um and then we'll add the ginger and the garlic ginger and the garlic how much do you want just maybe two tables two teaspoons two teaspoons that was quite heaped so the next one I know I know you can see what I like yes um and then the spice mix and a little bit of salt just a bit of it you know all of it all of it yes all of it okay so it's a spicy Mexican rice yes you wish you were here but don't try it at home try it at home so um as this heats up um dana what's what version of fried rice um is your favorite what version of fried rice also have you put in the salt no I haven't put in the salt let me put in the salt before I tell you how many pinches that's one maybe three okay two three I like Spanish rice and I think it's my sister Sharon who made that once like it's really good like I think it's blended tomatoes it's a very simple um um recipe but again it's almost like you're cooking it's like a double cooking like this but very minimal and then it the color is very rich it's like red and yellow yeah so I think Spanish rice I would say that okay yeah but on days I mean I still enjoy the normal plain rice but on days I'm feeling quite exotic or just going into my inner traveler exotic yeah like you know let's do Mexican let's do Spanish yeah as you can see now yeah my sister travels with her meals clearly so um I think for me I would say my favorite rice is Chinese fried rice yes I know most of us only wait to go to Chinese restaurants to have that but it's such an easy recipe and I think that's one of my favorite rice is not to say that all these are not yummy they are all yummy as well but I think that's that's that's the one that stands out for me so as you can see it's just starting to babbling yeah we don't want it to coming on to the full face yeah let me reduce the heat a bit yes yeah maybe next time we should do like a segment for like the sister's favorite right maybe Sean's favorite your favorite my favorite let me see what everybody would like that would be that could be a good one yeah are we adding anything else yes I think now we can no I think it's fine now it will cook as it's already hot so that's fine so Diana please can you add for me the peppers as well as the sweet corn okay so peppers again adding color to our food good way to get your kids for those who have kids we both don't but we have a nephew and we have a two nephews and a niece yes good way to get them to eat veggies they would eat them alone but when you make fried rice they eat it up I don't know why it's a psychology thing I don't get it maybe when I have kids and get it I don't yeah okay please add me sweet corn thank you um so just allow that to warm up I know it doesn't look the best right now but just wait and see and um I've seen some people do this they actually add olives to their fried rice and I hear it's the bomb if you like if you like olives yes do that yes this this this is is specifically there's like a base template and you can add whatever you want in your country translate for those who don't speak Sahili Diana do you yes do you exactly exactly just don't go overboard you know you can start throwing spinach up in here yeah just keep it simple tasty healthy okay um Diana please can you get me a cloth so I can hold this yeah okay that's fine so just angle it then I can you carry up the rice now we're going to add the fried rice sorry the boiled rice okay okay um so then I will add it for me um bit by bit and you want everything to combine so that the color is even and everything just looks nice and seamless yeah so and let me put a disclaimer as I add this you see our rice is quite it's not um how do I say lumped it's not it's not um one big mass one big mass when you cook your rice remove it from the the the tin you cooked it and let it cool separately then break it apart to the fork then you'll have like if you leave it in whatever you've cooked it in it'll remain as one it'll coagulate then you won't have rice exactly so okay so just slowly by slowly yeah because we just we don't want to break the grains of the rice we still want to see rice in our food just mix it slowly and evenly and don't be too rough with it so that you also don't mash up the rice just want to be very very light handed yeah I'm on your queue tell me when to go tell me continue continue slowly just keep adding slowly by slowly okay it's already looking real good yes just continue and the rice is soaking up all those everything you have put in spices yeah it really is soaking it up a bit more yes actually I think we can do all of that I think so too yeah just dump it all in so then we can yeah burn rice keeps you fuller for longer fiber sweeps up your guts and we're looking for things to get our gut healthy keep us fuller for longer so we don't snack good for the waistline I'm all about the waistline so it's important to eat good food now that is in everything here is the heat of it okay everything here is essentially cooked but we want everything to come together and be one temperature so we want the sweet corn to be the same temperature as the peppers as well as the rice and also so that the sauce is evenly distributed on each grain of rice so that when you take one bite it's consistent through all the bites you take in this rice then you be like whoa you know like I just had like a good Mexican rice looks really good and it's quite colorful when you present this alone somebody may be like I don't even need protein I'll just go all in with this like I'm just good as usual I'm always the excited one to eat so I can't wait just a few more minutes so that all the flavors just blend together yes it's good to know this ingredient so that you have visitors you shock them you don't just you know plain old rice plain old rice you know surprise your visitors when they come see you surprise your mother-in-laws or your friends your family whoever comes see you yeah even the gardener if you have a gardener or the watchman just do something different for people yeah and as you can see it's actually not that difficult to have used very simple and readily available ingredients because sometimes the people present food you might say oh you might say oh my gosh where did they get all these things are they available to me but as you can see these are things that we cook with every day in our homes you are mamboga on the street has it if you go to zucchini they have it anyway um I think it's ready as you can see it's very quick and easy as long as you have everything of yours prepped you'll be done in a minute so Diana are you ready for the moment of truth okay let me taste test it for today have a taste let's do this how is it you know something is yummy when the person who is eating it is quiet and they're quiet you know you have something right I think you should all try that yes um and I say that it's really good but it really is if you were here you would know yes Diana thank you so much for tasting and that's it that's all you have to do to make Mexican fried rice I know sometimes that title sounds like I know scary but that's it do Mexicans have to come now yes so thank you so much for joining us for this session um uh this brings we have come to a close and I hope that you try it and when you try it please um if you ever meet us or you know us personally let us know and tell us how yours was take pictures share and and even comment down on the comment section under this video interact and ask any questions you have and we will be happy to give you feedback and give you better tips to make this meal much better thank you so much for tuning in bye be blessed