FRIED RICE
Hey there and welcome to No Recipe Required.
So tonight I’m going to do a fried rice dish for you and, fried rice, I love it.
It’s one of those things that I use for leftovers all the time.
If you’ve got a little bit of carrots or peas or green beans anything kind of left
over.
If you’ve got rice left over from the Chinese food that you ordered the other day, it’s
absolutely perfect to do and it’s super simple.
It takes like 10 minutes to all put together and like I said, absolutely delicious.
Let’s go ahead and get started.
We’re going to add in our peas.
I’m using frozen peas which are quite nice.
Give those a little bit of a toss.
I’ve got some ham that I’ve just diced up.
You know this is kind of a leftover dish you can throw in really whatever you’ve got
and call it good.
I’ve got a little bit of garlic, one large clove diced up.
My pan is actually looking a touch dry so I’m going to add about a teaspoon more of
olive oil, get that tossed and then we’re going to add our rice.
Now I like using leftover rice, this dish is perfect for it.
But I actually cooked this rice off earlier and if you do that just kind of flatten it
out on a cutting board here.
Let it dry out a little bit.
That’s going to serve you well.
We’re going to add that in there.
Remember we’ve got to season as we go so let’s hit it with a little bit more salt
and a little bit of nice ground black pepper.
I’ve got a little bit of soy sauce.
Now the mistake some people make is they add too much soy sauce.
You don’t really need a ton and you’re going to toss it and the oil and the meat
and the other vegetables in there are going to, you know, break up that rice.
What I like to use, now I’m using a fork here.
If you’re not comfortable using a fork in a non stick pan you can certainly use chopsticks,
you can use like a spatula, you know, anything like that.
I try to avoid the wooden spoon because that can kind of break up the rice and get it a
little gummy.
You just want to keep tossing it around, break up all those little rice particles and once
this is good and hot we’re going to come back and finish it with an egg.
It’s time to finish our fried rice.
Here I’ve got a beaten egg.
I’ve seen some people kind of fry this off, create a bit of a super thin omelet, cut it
up.
I say, why bother?
We’re just going to kind of throw that in there and mix it all around and the egg is
actually going to coat kind of all the rice when you do it this way.
It’s still going to cook solid but cook firm so that it will mix up and be absolutely
perfect for you.
You do want to make sure you cook it all the way through and you’ll see little specks
of egg in there.
It kind of binds everything together just a little bit.
Important to keep tossing this one around.
I’ve got a little bit of scallion diced up, we’re going to add that.
I’m going to kill the heat.
Add just a drizzle of sesame oil.
It’s strong stuff so you don’t need a ton and we’re going to give it a final taste
for seasoning.
This one could definitely use a bit more salt and pepper and we’re good to go.
Let’s go ahead and plate it up.
Okay, let’s go ahead and plate up our fried rice.
I’ve got a nice little bowl here.
Pile it high and deep.
This makes a great side dish or frankly even on its own it’s quite tasty.
I’ll see you next time on No Recipe Required.