Friday, February 10, 2012

How to Make Fried Rice

Hehe I typed "friend" instead of "fried" in the title just now, perhaps because fried food is my friend?  I don't actually agree with that however.  Although we are not enemies, we are not exactly friends either.  Perhaps acquaintances.  Anyways, onto more important matters...



Ingredients
Basically any leftovers you have sitting in the fridge, including cooked rice.  In this case, old and slightly dry rice that has been in the fridge for a day or two is actually preferable.  Examples of some ingredients to include in fried rice are listed below:

-Chinese vegetables
-Red/green/yellow/orange pepper
-Mushrooms
-Carrots
-Onion
-Peas
-Corn
-Snowpeas or snappeas
-Small pieces of any vegetable really (broccoli, rapini, etc.)
-Small pieces of meat (optional)

-Soya sauce
-Fish sauce (optional)
-Ground black pepper


Directions
-Place 2 tbsp of oil in pan and let it heat up.  Fry up small pieces of meat.  After it is half cooked, add in vegetables from longest cook time to shortest cook time.  For example, add in onions and carrots first until half cooked, then add mushrooms and peppers, then snowpeas.  Add some soya sauce and fish sauce, set to side. 
-Place 2 tbsp of oil in pan and let it heat up.  Add in cooked rice and press spoon down to break up lumps of rice.  Let cook for about 10 minutes.  Add back in the cooked veggies, add more soya sauce and fish sauce, and lots of ground pepper.  Serve with hot sauce.

Optional:  Move rice to side and fry up a scrambled egg in the pan.  Stir into rice.

Note:  Making fried rice is a great way to get rid of bits of leftover cooked vegetables and meat from the fridge.  This makes it much easier to make as well, as you do not have to first cook the meat and veggies.  Instead, you would cook the rice first and add in the meat and veggies and sauces towards the end, just to warm them up.

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