I’m always on the lookout for replacements for the starches I can no longer eat. Spaghetti squash or julienned zuchini have replaced pasta, for example, and cauliflower has replaced mashed potatoes. But I’ve struggled to find a satisfying replacement for rice in asian cooking. Until this weekend, anyway. When I was in New York a month or so ago, I noticed an atkins-friendly meal on a chinese take out joint’s menu that mentioned mung bean sprouts in place of rice. I tried it this weekend and it’s great, finally something satisfying to lay my chinese food down on top of. Mung bean sprouts are already found extensively in chinese cooking, so they’re a natural fit. I also suspect this will be good with indian food though, I’ll test that sometime in the next week or so. They’re relatively inexpensive too, and easy to prepare, I just steam them for 10 minutes or so.