How to Make Japanese Fried Rice - Easy Japanese Hibachi Style Fried Rice Recipe
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor, today I
will show you how to make Japanese Fried Rice, this is a Hibachi style fried rice.
I had a request to make a Japanese Hibachi style fried rice, so here we go that is what
we are going to do.
It is really easy to do, simple ingredients, if I can do it, you can do it.
One thing to note, I don't own a hibachi style grill plate, like if you go to a restaurant
like Benihana or any kind of Temppanyaki Japanese restaurant, where the chef is right there
in front of you, and people are sitting around watching him cook, they have this large flat
metal surface, which is essentially their grill, and that is what they make the fried
rice and all the other dishes on.
I don't have that, I am just going to use a skillet, so you can feel free to use a skillet
at home, or a wok, or whatever you might have, all right, let's get started.
First we need our rice, what I did is I have one cup of uncooked rice and I made the rice
in my rice cooker, and then it makes about 2 cups cooked rice, there about, what I did
is I laid it across this pan, flattened it out, put some plastic wrap on it, and then
I put this in the fridge, over night, the reason why I do that, is because it dries
it out, and it makes it so the individual pieces of rice, come a part really nicely,
and these clumps like this, if I didn't do that these would be nice and sticky, but now
they come a part really easy.
And it really helps with the frying process.
So what I am going to do is I am going to transfer this, to a bowl, and make sure that
all my clumps are falling a part here.
Fried rice is the perfect way to repurpose your left over rice.
All right let's head over to the stovetop and start cooking.
Let's go ahead take a nonstick skillet and put it on our stovetop, you could use a wok,
and I have the heat set to medium high, I am letting my pan heat up, it is about there,
now I am going to add, 3 Tablespoons of olive oil, we will let that oil heat up a little
bit.
Let's add one cup of peas and carrots, this is one cup total so a half of cup of peas
and a half cup of carrots, this is just a bag, I just used a bag of frozen peas and
carrots, just because it is very convenient, um but you can use whatever kind that you
like, lets go ahead and put this in there.
And now we are going to go ahead and sauté this for a few minutes by itself, all right
after about 3 or 4 minutes, let's go ahead and take our peas and carrots, and we are
just going to go ahead and slide them to the side here, out of the way.
And now we want to cook our eggs, so what we do is we take an egg, drop it down there,
take another egg, drop it down in there, now let's scramble these just off the side here,
I like mine a little on the dryer side, and they will continue to cook as we keep adding
things, and this will take uh a couple of minutes for the eggs, okay about like that,
not totally dry yet, but not super moist.
At this point I am going to add one half cup of green onions, and one cup of diced ham,
or you could use cooked chicken, or pork, or beef, whatever you want to do, mix this
together for a minute or two.
I am going to add four cloves or garlic, which I used; I used a garlic press, or you could
just mince it up really small, once the garlic is all nice and combined, what we are going
to do, is we will take our rice and add our rice.
Also what I am going to do, for a little extra flavor, I am going to add 2 tablespoons of
butter, and then we are going to cook this for another 2 to 3 minutes.
And if you are really fancy you can take it, and do a little flip like that.
I am not that fancy, might need to turn the heat up a little, you want to hear that crackling
sound of the oil, and the butter, and the rice all cooking.
All right once the rice has all been mixed in, and heated through, let's go ahead and
add our soy sauce, I have two tablespoons of soy sauce here, you can add three if you
like, if you like a really strong soy sauce flavor, go ahead and mix that in, I myself
am more on the lighter side, when it comes to soy sauce, I don't like it super over powering,
turn up the heat a little bit more, at this point I have the heat up on high, we are going
to continue to cook this all together, and I am just going to cook this for about another
minute.
All right it has been thoroughly heated through, everything is all nice and combined, it is
done.
Take it off the heat, and then I am going to transfer it to this nice bowl.
Try not to spill it everywhere, awesome, Japanese style fried rice.
All right our hibachi style Japanese fried rice is done, it turned out fantastic, it
is really easy to do, go out there and make your own, I am Matt Taylor this has been another
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Take care, time for me to dive into this, oh yeah, mmm, mmm, mmm.