Cheese Baked Rice With Prawns - Seafood Week #4

It’s been long long fourth dimension since I had mozzarella cheese on my dinners, too pizza.
Today I’thousand yearning for around. And the calendar week before, I’ve only bought 500gm of mozzarella.
I was thinking of doing seafood with the rice, only my squids are all frozen inwards one lump, and then I tin can’t get some out. I exclusively accept prawns, that were separated into portions. So, I exclusively used prawns.

Baked rice needs a creamy sauce, and what’s ameliorate than béchamel sauce. Bechamel sauce needs milk and I don’t have milk, and then I went to the nearby Indian eating place to get approximately fresh moo-cow’second milk. You can use any milk you like, but that this fresh milk is the entirely milk available past forthwith inside walking distance equally all the shops are unopen on a Sun evening. For baked rice, the sauce is non every bit thick as those used for baked pasta, and so, you mightiness observe this to be much more liquidy than the master version.

Bechamel Sauce
20gm butter
1 Tbsp flour
350ml milk
Salt too pepper to gustation

Heat butter on medium low estrus in a saucepan. With a whisk in mitt, position inwards flour in addition to stir until no lumps are seen. Let it make for a patch so pour inwards milk too gently whisking all the piece. Bring to a boil as well as season with common salt and pepper. Remove from rut too set aside. Stir the sauce once in a while, to preclude a skin from forming on top.

The Rice
Adequate rice for two persons

As many prawns as yous similar n
two cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 eggs
i medium sized carrots, finely diced (5mm)
Salt too pepper
Cooking fossil oil
As much sliced jump onions every bit yous like
As much mozzarella cheese every bit you similar

ane. Preheat oven at 180/200C.
ii. Heat wok on high. Put inwards one Tbsp of oil too place inwards prawns, spread about in a unmarried layer. Do non toss them around. Let them prepare until they showtime to gyre in addition to plough pink, then flip them over to youngster the other side. When both sides are cooked in addition to fragrant, dish upwards in addition to gear up aside. Wash wok.
3. Heat wok in addition to position in two Tbsp of rock oil. Put in garlic together with ready until fragrant as well as slightly gilded.
four. Put in carrots and rice and toss until rice is hot.
five. Push rice aside as well as position in eggs.
half-dozen. Push rice back onto eggs too toss everything until eggs are cooked. Season with salt too pepper, brand sure it’second not as salty as your usual fried rice.
seven. Place rice into private baking vessels.
8. Top rice amongst béchamel sauce. Then conform prawns on height of sauce. Then sprinkle spring onions together with last the mozzarella cheese, every bit much as you lot similar.
9. Place the baking pans into a big shallow pan in addition to set into the preheated oven and bake for xx minutes or until golden.

See the sauce in at that place?

I was delighted amongst the result of the rice. The sauce was the right affair to add too the extra stride of frying the rice made everything more than flavourful. The leap onions were the best improver (never see anyone adding this), as when baked correct under the cheese, it imparted a wonderful fragrance to the baked rice.
But allow me warn you lot, if you are on a diet, merely lay that aside when you lot savor this rice. Definitely calorie laden, simply definitely satisfying (IMPO).

See the stringy mozzarella cheese? Yummm

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