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Water Spinach Broken Rice Plate
🇻🇳 Vietnamese

Water Spinach Broken Rice Plate

🇻🇳 Vietnamese

A one-pot rice dish where water spinach perfumes the grains as they cook — weeknight-friendly and endlessly adaptable. Ready in 30 minutes including prep.

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 4 Medium

Ingredients

  • Saltto taste
  • Garlic1, finely chopped
  • Rice300 g
  • Eggs2
  • White Pepper1 tsp
  • Fish Sauce2 tbsp
  • Stock or Broth600 ml
  • Water Spinach400 g
  • Jasmine Rice400 g
  • Neutral Oil2 tbsp

Optional extras

  • Mint Leaveshandful, to finish

Instructions

  1. 1

    Rinse the rice until the water runs clear, then drain well.

  2. 2

    Heat the Neutral Oil in a wide pot, soften the garlic, and bloom the white pepper for 30 seconds.

  3. 3

    Stir in the water spinach, then add the rice and turn everything gently through the fragrant oil.

  4. 4

    Pour in the stock, bring to a boil, then clamp on a lid and cook on the lowest heat for 15 minutes without peeking.

  5. 5

    Rest off the heat for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork and crown with mint leaves.

Chef's tip

Never lift the lid while the rice steams — trapped steam is doing the work.

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