Pina Colada and Easy Pineapple Fried Rice

Naturally sweetened Pina Colada and easy peasy pinapple fried rice on the menu today! Enjoy this week for the perfect tropical stay cation. 

Ingredients:

1 fresh pineapple

2 tbsp vegetable oil

2 cups brown rice (pre-cooked, for a super simple option you can do microwave rice.  I have a rice cooker that is just as easy)

2 chicken breasts - diced

Soy sauce

½ small onion – diced

1 garlic clove or 2 tsp of crushed garlic

1 cup broccoli – chopped (roughly a small head of broccoli)

1 red bell pepper – chopped

2 eggs

3 green onion

1 tsp sesame oil

1 cup Coconut milk unsweetened (can)

½ cup Coconut cream (can)

½ cup Pineapple juice

2 cups ice

½ cup Rum

Naturally Sugar Free Pina Colada

Ingredients
2 cups fresh pineapple

1 cup Coconut milk unsweetened (can)

½ cup Coconut cream (can)

½ cup Pineapple juice

2 cups ice

½ cup Rum

Want a drink to transport you to a hot tropical beach with the sun shining and the smell of sunscreen in the air? This naturally sugar free Pina Colada will keep you looking hot in that swim suit or cold in that sweatshirt your secretly sitting in inside your Seattle house (like us). The secret ingredient to making this sugar free Pina colada still sweet the canned coconut cream.

Instructions:

In a blender, blend all ingredients except the ice until smooth.  Add ice and blend again. If it is too thick add a little more pineapple juice.

Garnish not optional: a small decorative umbrella and bendy straw.

Pineapple fried rice with chicken

Ingredients:

2 tbsp vegetable oil

2 cups brown rice (pre-cooked, for a super simple option you can do microwave rice.  I have a rice cooker that is just as easy)

2 chicken breasts - diced

Soy sauce

½ small onion – diced

1 garlic clove or 2 tsp of crushed garlic

¾ cups pineapple

1 cup broccoli – chopped (roughly a small head of broccoli)

1 red bell pepper – chopped

2 eggs

3 green onion

1 tsp sesame oil

First heat up a wok or frying pan with 2 tbsp oil until very hot, almost smoking. Add chicken and cook until done. Set aside.

Keeping the stove at medium high heat, add a little more oil if needed. Add diced onion and pineapple and cook about 2 minutes or until it starts to brown. Next toss in pressed garlic and grated ginger and sauté another minute, stirring constantly. Add in the broccoli, red pepper and let cook for a minute. Add in the rice and let it start to brown.  Scoot the rice veggie mixture to the outer sides of the pan and scramble the two eggs in the middle of the pan.  

Fold all ingredients together and add back in the chicken.  Heat until the chicken is warm.  Remove from heat, add the sesame oil, and chopped green onion. Serve and enjoy!