This Sunday I woke up to a sparkling blanket of pure white snow covering the ground. Naturally, I proceeded to partake in the typical first snow day ritual. I brewed some tea, grabbed the coziest blanket I could find, plopped myself down on the couch next to my roommates, and settled in for a Netflix marathon. I don’t know about you but fresh snow always makes me want to stay inside and be lazy all day long. It also makes me want to eat piping hot meals, from fresh baked cookies to a mug full of hot chocolate. However, by the time dinner rolled around I opted for something healthier than the aforementioned snow day treats. I whipped up some sizzling teriyaki peppers and mushrooms with rice and it was the perfectwinter meal. It was also so quick to make, I only missed ten minutes of an episode of New Girl.
This meal is jam packed with nutritious vegies. Mushrooms offer a surprising amount of protein and the green pepper adds a nice crunch to break up the tenderness of the mushrooms. I like to use PF Chang’s teriyaki sauce because it is not only tasty, but it is pretty cheap and a bottle of it lasts me a very long time. It also doesn’t have as much sodium as other teriyaki sauces and it offers less calories than most. Five-minute rice is a great way to cut down some cook time on your meal. That being said, I recommend using brown rice if you have extra time. While it does take much longer to cook, brown rice is much healthier for you than instant white rice. Brown rice is much less refined which means it isn’t stripped of a lot of its nutritional content like white rice is.
Of course we all have a different montage of ingredients in our fridge and a variety of diets. This recipe is conveniently very easy to alter to your needs. Chicken, snow peas, water chestnuts, chickpeas, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, beef, and carrots are some of the foods I like to add to this dish to keep things interesting and keep things heathy.
Ingredients:
½ cup of water
½ cup of rice
½ tablespoon of butter
5 medium sized white mushrooms
¼ a green bell pepper
1 tablespoon of teriyaki sauce
Directions:
1. Pour ½ cup of water into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Pour a half cup of five-minute-rice into boiling water and cover. Proceed to cook rice for five minutes or until fully cooked.
3. While rice is cooking, chop up mushrooms into nickel sized pieces.
4. Melt ½ a tablespoon of butter in a small pan over medium heat. Add mushrooms and proceed to cook until they are slightly brown.
5. While mushrooms are cooking, chop green pepper into small pieces. Add pepper to pan with mushrooms. Sauté for 2 minutes.
6. Add 1 Tablespoon of teriyaki sauce to mushrooms and peppers. Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes or until your vegetables are fully cooked.
7. Remove rice from heat and scoop it onto plate.
8. Remove mushrooms and peppers from heat and place on dish. Bon appetite!
To learn about the health benefits of eating mushrooms, check our this website.
To learn about health benefits of green pepper, take a look at this article.
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