8 Must-Try Recipes for Lazy People

Lazy Person's Coconut Curry Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 1 bowl of rice, 1 potato, 1 onion, an appropriate amount of frozen mixed vegetables, 1 sausage

Seasonings: an appropriate amount of butter, an appropriate amount of pure water, an appropriate amount of coconut milk

Instructions

1. Dice the potato into small pieces (it's delicious even with the skin on, though I was too lazy to peel it)

2. Dice the sausage and onion. Cut out a piece of butter first.

3. Melt the butter in a pan.

4. Once the butter has melted, add the diced onion and stir-fry until a rich aroma of onion fills the air.

5. Add the pre-prepared diced potato, sausage, and frozen mixed vegetables and stir-fry (just for a short while, no need to cook through).

6. Pour in an appropriate amount of pure water, then add some coconut milk. Wait for the vegetables in the soup to cook (don't add too much water, otherwise, you'll be able to drink the curry soup).

8. Turn down the heat. Wait for the curry block to melt and the sauce to thicken. Pour it over the rice and you're done!

Xinjiang Hand-pulled Rice

Lazy Version of Hand-pulled Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 300g lamb leg, 300g rice, 1 carrot, 1 dehydrated purple onion, 3 dried chili peppers

Seasonings: a small piece of ginger, a pinch of black pepper, 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1 spoon of cumin powder, an appropriate amount of salt, an appropriate amount of cooking oil

Instructions

1. Select the lamb leg. For a family of three, this amount will be slightly generous. About 200g of lamb leg is sufficient. Thaw and cut into small pieces for later use.

2. Prepare the required ingredients. 300g of rice, one carrot, one purple onion, and a small piece of old ginger.

3. Wash the rice clean, soak it in clear water, and let it sit for about 10 minutes.

4. When preparing the cumin, it's best to have both cumin powder and seeds, especially if you really love the taste of cumin. The flavor of cumin seeds is more intense, and they provide a better texture, especially when steamed with the rice.

5. Peel the carrot and cut into small cubes. Chop the onion.

6. Heat a wok, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil, then add the lamb and stir-fry until it changes color. Next, add the ginger, dried chilies, and cumin powder, and stir-fry quickly.

7. Then, add the purple onion and carrot cubes, add an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, grind some black peppercorns, and add the cumin seeds.

8. Add an appropriate amount of salt.

9. Add a small cup of boiling water and turn off the heat once it comes to a boil.

10. Pour the soaked rice into a rice cooker.

11. Pour the stir-fried ingredients into the rice and give it a quick stir.

12. Turn on the rice cooker. Use the steaming function; it will take about 45 minutes.

13. The fragrant hand-pulled rice is ready! The broth is flavorful, the rice is fragrant and glutinous, the carrots are perfectly tender, and the lamb is savory. Everything is absolutely perfect!

14. Serve a bowl immediately. So fragrant! A bowl of lamb hand-pulled rice can drive away the fatigue of the day and bring the family together with its rich, happy flavor. This is the taste of home.

Lazy Person's Rice Cooker Scallop and Shrimp Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: a small handful of scallops, a small handful of dried shrimp, 1 cup of rice, an appropriate amount of hot water

Seasonings: a little soy sauce, a little chopped green onion

Instructions

1. Wash the scallops and dried shrimp. Soften them in hot water. (Add a bit more water than you would normally use for cooking rice. For example, if you use one cup of rice, add about one and a quarter cups of water for soaking, as the ingredients absorb a lot of water).

2. Once softened, shred the scallops apart.

3. Wash the rice. Place the scallops, shrimp, and their soaking water into the rice cooker, press the button, and start cooking.

4. Once cooked, mix in some soy sauce and chopped green onions, and it's ready to serve.

Pickled Egg Fried Rice

Lazy Person's Egg Fried Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 200g of cold rice, 2 eggs, 1 bowl of pickled mustard

Seasonings: 1g salt, 2g mushroom powder, a little cooking wine, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 chili pepper

Instructions

1. The rice should be leftover rice from the previous day. Shred the pickled mustard.

2. Beat the eggs, dice the garlic, and dice the chili pepper.

3. Heat the pan with a little oil, then sauté the garlic.

4. Add the beaten eggs to the pan and scramble them.

5. Add the shredded pickled mustard and continue stir-frying.

6. Add the rice and continue to stir-fry. During the process, you can add 1g of salt and a little cooking wine to enhance the fragrance.

7. I chose mushroom powder for a more umami flavor. Add it and continue stir-frying, then it's ready to be served.

Lazy Person's Cured Meat Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 500g rice

Seasonings: 2 cured sausages

Instructions

1. Cut the store-bought cured sausage into small pieces.

2. Steam the rice in a pot.

3. While waiting for the rice to cook, add the cut cured sausage to the pot.

4. Cover the pot and wait for 10 minutes before serving.

Lazy Person's Cured Meat Braised Rice

Lazy Person's Rice with Toppings

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 2 bowls of rice, half a cucumber, half a red onion, half a tomato, half a red sausage, half a potato

Seasonings: an appropriate amount of cooking oil, 1 small spoon of chicken powder, an appropriate amount of salt, an appropriate amount of oyster sauce, an appropriate amount of fish sauce, an appropriate amount of thirteen-spice powder, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 spoon of cornstarch

Instructions

1. Prepare the ingredients.

2. Dice them and place them in a bowl for later use.

3. Mix all the seasonings together in a bowl, add a small bowl of water, and mix well.

4. Stir-fry the diced ingredients in a pan until cooked. Add a bowl of water, cover the lid, and simmer until soft.

5. Add the pre-mixed sauce and stir-fry for a short while.

6. Serve the rice in a bowl, then flip it onto a plate. Pour the stir-fried diced vegetables on top. Simple and time-saving.

Lazy Person's Minced Meat Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 2 cups of rice

Seasonings: half a carrot, half an onion, 5 mushrooms, 50g of minced meat, 2 spoons of salt, 1 spoon of soy sauce, 1 spoon of cooking wine, 1 spoon of soybean paste

Instructions

1. Dice the carrot, onion, and mushrooms. Try to make them a similar size for a better appearance.

2. Marinate the minced meat with a little cooking wine, salt, and soy sauce.

3. Since it's just for me and my son, I used two cups of rice. I added water to a level slightly above the '2' mark on the rice cooker. If you prefer drier rice, you can add water exactly to the '2' mark.

4. Add a little oil to the pan and stir-fry the vegetables briefly.

5. Add the marinated minced meat.

6. Add a large spoon of soybean paste and stir-fry.

7. Add an appropriate amount of water and a little salt, and bring to a boil. Don't add too much water, just a little.

8. Transfer all the ingredients from the pan to the rice cooker. Add one spoon of salt, give it a quick stir, cover the lid, and press the normal cooking button.

9. After it's done, let it sit for a while to keep it warm, then it's ready to eat!

Cured Sausage and Mushroom Braised Rice

Lazy Person's Braised Rice

Ingredients

Main ingredients: 100g of sweet corn kernels, 100g of carrots, 100g of snow peas, 200g of pork belly, 200g of potatoes

Seasonings: a few dried chili peppers, a little chili sauce, a little green onion, a little garlic, a little soy sauce

Instructions

1. Peel and dice the carrots and potatoes. Wash the sweet corn and snow peas.

2. Cut the meat into cubes.

3. Slice the chilies. I didn't use any garlic because I didn't have any at home!

4. Add one-third glutinous rice to the regular rice to make the cooked rice sticky and fragrant. Soak it in water for a while beforehand.

5. Pan-fry until golden brown and the oil is rendered out.

6. Fry until golden brown.

7. Add the aromatics (like garlic and ginger) and stir-fry until fragrant.

8. Add all the washed and prepared vegetables to the pan and stir-fry for about a minute, then add salt.

9. This chili sauce is quite spicy.

10. Add water and simmer for three minutes.

11. Once the sauce has reduced, add a little soy sauce for color and continue stir-frying.

12. Continue to stir-fry.

13. Place the vegetables on top of the washed rice. Cover it. If your rice cooker has a clay pot rice function, use that function!