Looking for a quick and easy, delicious and filling meal? How about a healthy, vegan Carrot Rice? It's topped with cilantro and homemade cashew parmesan.
Sometimes I don't have the time to cook super complicated meals - so something quick and easy is always welcome! What I love to make is this healthy & vegan Carrot Rice. It's so good with chopped cilantro (which I love recently!!) and with homemade Vegan Cashew Parmesan (which I always have at home!).
I love my homemade Cashew Parmesan - It's so easy to make and it's such a great addition to noodles, rice, pizza, lasagne,.. even salad! If you haven't tried it yet - you totally should! It's life changing :)
Healthy & Vegan Carrot Rice
Looking for a quick and easy, delicious and filling meal? How about a healthy, vegan Carrot Rice? It's topped with cilantro and homemade cashew parmesan.
Ingredients
- 1 cup parboiled rice
- 1 ½ cups water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- 3 small carrots (or 1 large one)
- ½ teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon chopped cilantro
- homemade Cashew Parmesan
Instructions
- Prepare the Cashew Parmesan according to the recipe.
- Cook (with the lid on!) the rice on medium low heat with 1 ½ cups of water along with the salt and lemon juice until all the water is absorbed.
- Peel the carrots and cut them in smaller pieces.
- Put the carrots in a food processor and chop until they're in fine pieces.
- In a large pan, add the olive oil and turn it on medium high heat.
- Add the carrot pieces. Stir occasionally. After 3-4 minutes, once the carrot pieces are soft, add the rice.
- Add additional salt and lemon juice to taste.
- After a minute or two it's ready to serve.
- Top with the chopped cilantro and Cashew Parmesan.
Nutrition
Calories: 384kcalCarbohydrates: 82gProtein: 7gFat: 1gSodium: 367mgPotassium: 399mgFiber: 3gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 15285IUVitamin C: 5.9mgCalcium: 62mgIron: 1mg
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Audrey @ Unconventional Baker says
What a great meal idea, Bianca. I can never get tired of rice :) This sounds amazing, especially with that parm ♥
bianca says
The vegan parmesan brings any dish to the next level <3 Thank you Audrey!!
Natalie @ Feasting on Fruit says
Simple and tasty, I love rice dishes like that! Often people put peas and carrots in rice, but while peas are okay they aren't my favorite food, so I like this version much better :)
bianca says
Peas and carrots? Oh yeah.. now that you've said it I remember that's a common combination - but I haven't eaten it for soo long. ^.^ The simple Carrot Rice however is on my meal plan quite often.
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
Carrot rice looks so indulging, Bianca! And Gri, cashew parmesan sounds out the world! Just YUM! :)
bianca says
Thank you so much Anu! I sprinkle Cashew Parmesan on pretty much anything these days! :D
Nicola says
Does the ingredient "parboiled rice" mean white rice, of the sort my mother always cooked, in a mostly orange box with the portrait of an older "male relative" on it?