Quick Ham-Fried Rice With Lavender

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You'll beryllium amazed however good the floral herb marries with pork successful this speedy stir-fry, providing a definite yet subtle thing extra.

If you person leftover cooked atom connected hand, you tin rapidly crook it into a repast with this recipe. Use the larger quantity of ham suggested for a main dish, the smaller magnitude for a side.

Buy lone lavender designed for cooking purposes; it is disposable astatine respective stores successful the Washington area, including La Cuisine successful Alexandria; Balducci's and Williams-Sonoma successful Bethesda; David's Natural Market successful Columbia, Gambrills and Forest Hills; Penzeys Spices successful Falls Church and Rockville; and country Spice & Tea Exchange shops. Some retailers merchantability dried culinary lavender prepackaged; others merchantability successful bulk, and you tin bargain what you need.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2-3

2 tablespoons safflower oil, sesame lipid oregon different rootlike oil
1 cupful thinly sliced scallions (white and greenish parts), positive 1 1/2 tablespoons coarsely chopped scallions (white and light-green parts), for optional garnish
1 cupful chopped celery
1/2 cupful seeded, chopped reddish doorbell pepper
1 spoon to 1 1/4 teaspoons finely minced caller culinary lavender spikes (bloom heads) oregon coarsely crushed dried culinary lavender buds (see headnote)
1 1/4 teaspoons minced oregon grated peeled caller ginger root
1 cupful to 1 1/2 cups trimmed and coarsely diced thick-sliced baked ham oregon pre-cooked ham steak
2 1/2 cups cooked and cooled long-grain achromatic oregon brownish rice
1/2 cupful aureate oregon acheronian seedless raisins, oregon a combination
2 1/2 tablespoons to 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce, oregon much arsenic needed
1/4 spoon to 1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons salted peanuts oregon cashews, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 3, utilizing safflower oil, baked ham, brownish atom and aureate raisins)

Calories
420
Fat
14 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
63 g
Sodium
900 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
15 g
Fiber
6 g
Sugar
17 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Nancy Baggett.

Published July 4, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026