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Red Wine Bacon Chunks With Rice And Steamed Vegetables

Red Wine Bacon, Veg & Rice

I’ve always wanted to try an Asian style dish in the Thermomix, because it’s something I really enjoy, but I’ve had a hard time finding recipes that ‘suit’ us. When I opened my meat box to find chunky bacon I decided it’s time to try something different, and here we have it. My husband actually said it’s the nicest chunky bacon meal we’ve ever had, so that’s got to count for something. Even my children enjoyed it. That’s saying something too!

You can adjust the vegetable to what you have, and I’d probably sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on it too, if I had any, but as it was it was delicious. Hope you enjoy it too!

Red Wine Bacon with Rice And Steamed Vegetable
Recipe Type: One Pot Meal, Mains
Cuisine: Asian
Author: Luschka
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Serves: 3
Ingredients
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 tsp ginger (grated or powder)
  • 3 small or 1 large garlic clove(s)
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 500g bacon chunks +- 3cm
  • 3 tbs soy sauce
  • 3 tbs chinese cooking white wine
  • 2 tbs rapadura
  • 2/3 cup (160ml/ 120g) red wine
  • 5g corn flour
  • 250g rice
  • Carrots (optional)
  • Asian greens like boy choy, pak choy, or other winter greens like rhubarb chard or similar.(optional)
Instructions
Traditional cooking
  1. Finely chop onion, ginger and garlic and shallow fry in sesame oil until onion is translucent.
  2. Add the bacon, soy sauce, cooking wine and rapadura (or brown sugar) and simmer for 7 minutes.
  3. Chop vegetables and place in steamer (Or in a colander that fits over the pot with the rice in it)
  4. Add red wine and corn flour and boil for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally and keeping an eye to make sure the wine doesn’t dry up.
  5. At the same time, boil the rice.
  6. Drizzle sesame oil over the steamed vegetables and serve hot.
With Thermomix
  1. Place onion, ginger and garlic in the TM pot. Turbo for two seconds. Add sesame oil and cook for 3 minutes/speed 2/100C.
  2. Add the chunky bacon, soy sauce, Chinese cooking wine and rapadura (or brown sugar). Cook for 7 mins/spoon setting/100C.
  3. Chop and slice vegetables and place in Veroma.
  4. Add red wine and corn flour and cook for 10 mins/spoon setting/Veroma. Add Veroma and steam vegetables.
  5. Meanwhile, cook rice in your preferred way. Under season your rice as the bacon is quite salty already. (If you’re going to wait and prepare the rice after the meat, keep the meat warm in a separate pot).
  6. Drizzle sesame oil over vegetables.
  7. Serve hot.