How to Make Fried Rice

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Adding shrimp, pork or beef and vegetables to leftover rice makes Chinese fried rice a quick and easy recipe everyone will love.

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Instructions

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Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Tips & Warnings:

  • The amount of oil you use is up to you. You need only a tablespoon or so to keep the rice from sticking.
  • You can put anything you want in fried rice: leftover vegetables, stir-fry or anything that seems interesting. Try fried rice with ham and eggs for breakfast.
  • Traditionally, fried rice is seasoned with salt instead of soy sauce, because soy sauce turns the rice brown. Whichever you choose, be conservative when you first add it. You can always add more, but you can't take too much back.
  • Try a few drops of sesame oil in the egg before you cook it.
  • For a spicy fried rice, add crushed red pepper flakes to the wok with the garlic.
  • For an added touch of flavor, serve the fried rice with hoisin or oyster sauce on the side.
  • Don't use hot rice, or you'll have a gloppy mess. Cooling the rice makes the grains separate.
Step1
Heat the oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat.
Step2
Add the garlic, ginger and onion and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.
Step3
Reduce the heat to medium, and add the carrot, peas, rice and meat and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes.
Step4
Use your stirring spoon to make a well in the center of the rice and pour the eggs into it. Let the eggs cook for 1 minute, then slowly start to stir and incorporate the egg into the rice.
Step5
Add the soy sauce and cook for 2 minutes longer, stirring and tossing with the spoon.
Step6
Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Step7
Serve immediately.

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linguini

linguini said

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on 8/11/2008 An excellent recipe for making Chinese fried rice here ...

http://www.orientalcookbook.co.uk/chinese-115-fried-rice.html

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on 7/29/2008 Fantastic First Article! Keep them coming!

rdardenea

rdardenea said

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on 7/23/2008 Thank you. EXCELLENT!!! I can't wait to get into the kitchen with this one.

juiceee

juiceee said

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on 2/28/2008 People like me use these sights because we need direction. This would have been a GREAT recipe had it been mentioned to use COOKED RICE (like every other recipe I saw after I had to find out why I had a gigantic mess on my hands!!!) THANKS ALOT> thumbs DOWN.

juiceee

juiceee said

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on 2/28/2008 Seems like a nice recipe- would have been nice if it specified that you need COOKED RICE before I made a gigantic unedible mess. THANKS<

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