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Golden Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime

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golden pork mince rice bowls with peppers, peas, spring onions, ginger, coriander, paprika, and lime.

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75 min605 kcal4 base servingsDinnerRice BowlsDairy Free
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Focus ingredients: pork mince, basmati rice, red peppers, frozen peas

Dietary fit: Gluten-free, Dairy-free

Serving tip: Cool rice promptly in shallow portions, ideally within 1 hour, and refrigerate at 0–5°C. Use within 24 hours or an earlier ingredient use-by limit. Reheat only once until steaming hot throughout. Transport chilled with an ice pack. Larger households need separate complete batches; sequential batches add the stated cooking time, and preparation increases with the amount of food.

Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime plated and ready to serve.

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Ingredients

What you need

  • 500g pork mince
  • 300g basmati rice
  • 2 red peppers
  • 200g frozen peas
  • 6 spring onions
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 20g ginger
  • 2 lime
  • 20g coriander
  • 2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbsp tomato puree
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 645ml water
  • 1000ml boiling water
  • 1g salt
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper

You'll also need

knife and chopping board, measuring jug and scales, 3l rice saucepan, 2l pea saucepan, 28cm non-stick frying pan, clean food thermometer

Method

Step by step

Up to 8 clear steps
  1. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 1: Prep the vegetables.
    Step 1

    Prep the vegetables

    For more than four servings, first divide the displayed ingredient totals into separate sets of no more than four servings. Complete each set in its own equipment using its share of the displayed amounts. Slice peppers and spring onions, keeping green tops separate. Grate garlic and fresh ginger, chop coriander, and zest and juice half the listed limes; cut the remainder into wedges. Divide the prepared pan ingredients and seasonings into two equal batches of no more than two servings.

    10 min
  2. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 2: Cook the rice.
    Step 2

    Cook rice and peas separately

    Bring rinsed rice and 600ml of the listed water to the boil in a 3l saucepan. Cover and simmer gently for 10–12 minutes until tender, following a longer packet time if needed, then rest covered off the heat for 3 minutes. Meanwhile boil peas in all the listed boiling water for the packet time until steaming hot throughout, then drain.

    12 min
  3. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 3: Crisp the pork.
    Step 3

    Brown and check the mince

    For each batch of no more than two servings, heat half its oil share in a 28cm pan over medium-high heat. Add its raw mince and fry for 8–10 minutes, breaking up clumps until browned. Check the largest clumps reach 75°C for 30 seconds with a clean probe; continue if needed.

    10 min
  4. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 4: Add aromatics.
    Step 4

    Add aromatics

    Add that batch’s garlic, ginger, paprika, cumin, lime zest, tomato puree and measured salt and black pepper. Stir for 1 minute.

    1 min
  5. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 5: Cook peppers and peas.
    Step 5

    Soften peppers and heat peas

    Add that batch’s peppers, spring onion whites, remaining oil share and share of the remaining 45ml sauce water. Cook for 6–8 minutes until peppers soften, then add its share of cooked peas and heat for 2 minutes until steaming hot.

    8 min
  6. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 6: Finish with lime.
    Step 6

    Finish and serve this batch

    Stir in that batch’s lime juice and half its coriander. Serve promptly over its share of hot rice, topped with its spring onion greens, remaining coriander and lime wedges.

  7. Crispy Paprika Pork Pepper Rice Bowls with Lime cooking step 7: Serve over rice.
    Step 7

    Repeat the second batch

    Repeat with the other ingredient batch. Serve each batch promptly; if rice has cooled during sequential cooking, reheat its portion once until steaming hot throughout before serving. Do not save reheated portions for another reheating.