So it has been quite a productive day and we’ve got a full schedule tomorrow ahead of us. For dinner I wanted to make something light and healthy so we are not overstuffed (Marc and I love to eat and dine well..). Thank goodness there are loads of healthy green food bloggers out there, I was able to find some useful information using the ingredients available at home.

Yes, it is exactly the sweet potato kale rice, as we all know, we don’t always end up having the exact same ingredients as the recipe. So the smart thing is to use your magic wand of creativity…. Yeah, I am not joking! Cooking can be quite a bit of a creative process, especially the first time trying something new. You really got to trust the process and acknowledge your food will be better than it imagined.

Because this is what happened with my cooking so many times, I warned Marc before he taste the food… I said to him, “this is my first try, I don’t think it turned out to be as good as I wished…” Yuuuuck, self-diminishing can be very addictive, can’t it? Unless I screw up badly or the meat ingredients have gone bad, it usually turned out to be better than I anticipated.

The rice was delicious. Very light and it fulfilled our hunger with just right amount of carbohydrates. After cooking the sweet potatoes with brown rice and some garlic, you can mix the kale with the rice and drizzle the sauce on top.

To make the rice, you would need the following ingredients…. (servings for 2)

1 cup of brown rice, soak them in water for 10 minutes before cooking
1 medium size of sweet potato, chop them into bite sizes
2 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 cups of water

Sauce:

2 medium size orange, squeeze into orange juice
1/2 cup of apple juice (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoon of maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce
2 cloves of crushed garlic
1/2 lime
1 1/2 teaspoon of kale
bunch of kale, slice them thin
1 teaspoon of grated ginger

Directions:

If you have a rice cooker, go ahead and use the rice cooker for the cooking the brown rice, sweet potato and garlic together. I usually wait an extra 10 minutes after the rice cooker is finished just so everything wrap in warmth inside.

On the side, you can mix all the ingredients for the sauce together in a heated pan and wait till it cooks and turn slightly golden, and until it becomes a bit thick. Drizzlee the sauce on top of the rice and kale to mix. Make sure to taste as you go so you can adjust the amount of sauce you’d like.

Happy evening!

Love,
Paye Tina