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long-grain rice

🥗Healthier: brown rice

💰Cheaper: white rice

Brown rice adds fiber and nutrients.

fish

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Tofu is plant-based and lower in calories.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Olive oil has healthier fats.

chicken stock

🥗Healthier: vegetable broth

💰Cheaper: water with seasoning

Vegetable broth is lower in calories.

Cut the fresh mackerel into pieces, remove the intestines, and wash it.

Marinate the fish with garlic powder, ginger powder, onion, one seasoning cube, oregano, thyme, and salt.

Set the marinated fish aside.

Prepare vegetables: paprika, carrots, scallion, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, normal tomatoes, shallot onions, ginger, and garlic.

Parboil the rice in hot water for about 3 minutes.

Fry the marinated fish and then remove it from the pan.

Fry shrimp with bullion (optional).

Fry onions and add shrimp, cooking for about 2 minutes.

Add ginger and garlic to the onion and shrimp mixture and mix well.

Add chopped tomatoes and paprika to the mixture.

Add nutmeg, thyme, rosemary, oregano, chili pepper, and bullion to the tomatoes and paprika, mixing everything together.

Add seasoning cube and bay leaf to taste and mix again.

Fry the tomato and paprika mixture for about 5 minutes.

Add fish stock to the mixture and then add the parboiled rice, mixing everything together.

Add fresh onions and fresh basil leaf to the rice mixture and mix well.

Add the fried fish back into the rice mixture to infuse the flavor.

Stir fry the carrots separately before adding them to the rice after the water has reduced.

Add the stir-fried carrots and spring onions to the rice, mix, cover, and allow to cook for about 1 minute before serving.

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