Fried Rice – A Lovely Mess

This fried rice recipe is likely one of the absolute best clean-out-the-refrigerator meals as you’ll be able to customise it SO some ways. The fundamentals of fried rice are cooked rice that will get pan fried in a big skillet or wok with different elements like greens, egg and a savory sauce. It’s straightforward and a meal everybody ought to know the right way to make!

I’m conserving the sauce for this fried rice tremendous easy (nonetheless good!) however if you wish to up your sport attempt our stir fry sauce with this system.

Associated: Subsequent up attempt my pineapple fried rice recipe for one more fast and straightforward meal.

Components

• Rice – I like Jasmine however any medium to lengthy grain white or brown rice works
• Onion – yellow, white or pink
• Garlic
• Oil – any cooking oil comparable to canola, peanut or olive
• Frozen peas and carrots
• Eggs
• Gentle soy sauce
• Darkish soy sauce
• Sesame oil
• Inexperienced onions – additionally referred to as scallions

The right way to make Fried Rice

Cook dinner the rice a day or two earlier than. You may as well use leftover rice from different meals and even take out.

Finely chop the onion and mince the garlic.

In a big skillet, or wok, warmth the oil over medium/excessive warmth. Stir fry the onion for 1-2 minutes till softened. Then add the garlic and prepare dinner one other minute. Then toss within the (frozen) peas and carrots. Cook dinner for one more 2 minutes.

Push the greens to the facet and add the sesame oil to the empty a part of the pan. Add the cooked rice and let that pan fry for 30-45 seconds. Then stir round with the greens, persevering with to prepare dinner for a pair minutes.

Crack the eggs right into a separate, small bowl. I do that so I can take away any shell items that may get in, versus cracking the eggs straight into the pan. Now push the rice combination to 1 facet of the pan and within the empty space add the eggs. Allow them to scramble for 10-15 seconds, after which stir them in with the rice combination.

Now pour on the sauces and proceed to stir fry till every little thing is effectively coated and scorching. Add the chopped inexperienced onions and serve heat.

Ideas and Substitutions

• Different frozen greens or vegetable mixes can work effectively right here, like merely all peas or a pea, carrot and corn combine.
• You possibly can add extra (contemporary) greens to this like broccoli, cabbage or carrots.
• Should you can’t discover darkish soy sauce you’ll be able to substitute oyster sauce on this recipe.
• You actually do need day outdated, already cooked rice for this. I even depart the rice out on a plate, to dry out a bit extra, the afternoon earlier than I make this (for dinner). Consider it like french toast, you need dry bread quite than contemporary, gentle bread as a result of it might get too soggy in any other case.
• This fried rice is vegetarian pleasant whereas nonetheless having some protein from the eggs and peas (a excessive protein vegetable). However if you happen to’d like so as to add one other protein some cooked shrimp or hen works nice right here. I’ll generally throw in shredded rotisserie hen for a brilliant straightforward protein.

Extra Chinese language and Asian Fusion Recipes

P.S. Should you love Chinese language and Asian-fusion recipes one cookbook I like is 168 Higher Than Takeout Chinese language Recipes by Mandy Fu.