Fried Rice – A Lovely Mess

This fried rice recipe is without doubt one of the absolute best clean-out-the-refrigerator meals as you possibly can 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 simple and a meal everybody ought to know methods to make!

I’m retaining 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 system.

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

Components

• 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 reminiscent of canola, peanut or olive
• Frozen peas and carrots
• Eggs
• Mild soy sauce
• Darkish soy sauce
• Sesame oil
• Inexperienced onions – additionally known as scallions

The right way to make Fried Rice

Cook dinner the rice a day or two earlier than. You may also 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 an additional 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 immediately 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 things is properly coated and sizzling. Add the chopped inexperienced onions and serve heat.

Ideas and Substitutions

• Different frozen greens or vegetable mixes can work properly right here, like merely all peas or a pea, carrot and corn combine.
• You’ll be able to add extra (recent) greens to this like broccoli, cabbage or carrots.
• In case you can’t discover darkish soy sauce you possibly can 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 just a little extra, the afternoon earlier than I make this (for dinner). Consider it like french toast, you need dry bread fairly than recent, comfortable bread as a result of it could possibly 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 for those who’d like so as to add one other protein some cooked shrimp or hen works nice right here. I’ll typically throw in shredded rotisserie hen for an excellent simple protein.

Extra Chinese language and Asian Fusion Recipes

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