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Korean
Kimchi Jjigae (Kimchi Stew)
Source: Traditional
30 min3420 kcal
Dairy-free🌶️🌶️
Hsi Htamin (Turmeric Sticky Rice)
'Oiled rice' — glutinous rice cooked golden with turmeric and onion, finished with fried onions and toasted sesame. The breakfast sold from trays on Yangon streets, eaten with boiled yellow peas or a piece of dried fish.
Source
Recipe by Burmese home kitchens · 🏺 Traditional · Cooking built on three things — a pot of oil-slicked onion and garlic base, fermented fish or shrimp for depth, and a table where everything arrives at once and is shared.
Myanmar · turmeric 'oiled rice' breakfast — An ownerless everyday dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms hsi htamin as glutinous rice cooked with turmeric, salt and onions, served with roasted sesame seeds and fried onions, eaten at breakfast with peas or dried fish. The slow-fried onion rule, the water ratio, timings and quantities are this book's own.
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⏱ 50 min🍽 4 servings🔥 390 kcal🇲🇲 Myanmar
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Steps
Boil the soaked peas in salted water with a pinch of turmeric 30–40 minutes until tender. Drain and keep warm.
Heat the oil and fry the onion slices slowly until deep golden and crisp. Lift half out onto paper for the topping.
💡 Slow is the whole technique. Onions crisped fast are brown outside and limp inside; slow ones are crisp all the way through and stay that way on the rice.
To the onions still in the pan add the drained rice, turmeric and salt. Stir 2 minutes so every grain is coated in yellow oil.
Add the water, bring to a boil, cover tightly and cook on the lowest heat 20 minutes. Rest, covered, 10 minutes more.
💡 Do not lift the lid. The rice cooks in trapped steam, and each peek costs it.
Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan until they pop and smell nutty. Crush lightly with a pinch of salt.
Fluff the rice, mound it on plates and cover with the crisp onions and sesame salt. Serve with the peas alongside.
💡 Tips
- A piece of grilled dried fish or a fried egg turns it from a snack into a meal — both are standard on the street.
- It is sold wrapped in a banana leaf, which is worth copying — the leaf keeps the rice warm and lends a green smell.
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