Fried Rice – A Lovely Mess

This fried rice recipe is without doubt one of the easiest clean-out-the-refrigerator meals as you may 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 easy methods to make!

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

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

Elements

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

The best way to make Fried Rice

Cook dinner the rice a day or two earlier than. It’s also possible to 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 cook 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 cook 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 at least one 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 all the pieces is nicely coated and sizzling. Add the chopped inexperienced onions and serve heat.

Suggestions and Substitutions

• Different frozen greens or vegetable mixes can work nicely right here, like merely all peas or a pea, carrot and corn combine.
• You may add extra (recent) greens to this like broccoli, cabbage or carrots.
• For those who can’t discover darkish soy sauce you may substitute oyster sauce on this recipe.
• You actually do need day outdated, already cooked rice for this. I even go away the rice out on a plate, to dry out a bit of extra, the afternoon earlier than I make this (for dinner). Consider it like french toast, you need dry bread slightly than recent, delicate bread as a result of it could 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 when you’d like so as to add one other protein some cooked shrimp or rooster works nice right here. I’ll typically throw in shredded rotisserie rooster for an excellent straightforward protein.

Extra Chinese language and Asian Fusion Recipes

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