Recipes for the Lazy Cook – #002 – Banana Rice
11 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Books, Food, Recipes Tags: banana, books, cooking, food, Going Solo, laziness, recipe, rice, Roald Dahl, soy sauce
1.) Microwave a bowl of leftover rice
2.) Add some soy sauce
3.) Slice in a ripe banana
I discovered the deliciousness of this banana rice combination this hungry morning. I happened to have some leftover japanese rice in the fridge, and intended to quickly carb it up with some dark mushroom soy sauce and call it a breakfast. Then I looked at my fruit tray on top of the microwave and saw a couple of sad looking bananas that were going spotty. Then decided to slice one into my rice, just for kicks.
Actually pretty good. Nice balance of sweet and savoury.
In Roald Dahl’s autobiographical ‘Going Solo’, about his time in the RAF during WWII, he mentions one of the cooks making a rice dish with bananas (plantains), and this has always stuck in the back of my head as sounding fairly delicious, because Roald Dahl said it was delicious. I think I tried making it once as a kid, boiling the bananas with brown rice, and it turned out fairly miserable and I had to throw it away.
Simple, comforting, delicious. Good discovery. 
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