It has – rice, protein, vegetables, and eggs – one of the best meal-prep recipes, so easy to cook, and a perfect comfort meal in a bowl. Whether you are a novice cook with limited resources or a busy homemaker with hungry goblins, you need a stir-fry pan (wok), leftover cooked rice, and chicken.
Ingredients Required
Boiled/Cooked Rice: Use the long to medium rice for stir-frying. The leftover cold white rice straight out of the fridge is best. Vegetables: From fresh peas, bell peppers, cabbage, green beans, carrot, and snow peas to any other vegetables with a crunch is perfect for stir-frying with rice. Make sure to chop all the vegetables finely. Chicken: The tender, boneless chicken breast or thigh is best for stir-frying. Cut all the chicken pieces into small bite sizes to cook quickly. Eggs: There are two methods to add eggs to fried rice – either you can add whisked eggs to get spongy clouds of scrambled eggs in your rice. Or you can top it with a half-fried egg before serving. Cooking Oil: I use only sesame oil for Asian-style cooking. The nutty taste and aroma give the chicken fried rice an extra kick. Instead of sesame oil, you can use peanut, groundnut, or other vegetable oil. Herbs & Seasoning: Ginger, Garlic, Celery, and Spring Onion are the souls of delicious fried rice. It would be best to have a good quality soy sauce, white vinegar, salt, chilli flakes, and black pepper.
Stir-Fry Pan/Wok: A Chinese wok or stir-fry pan is essential for making fried rice. You cannot get those crispy bits of rice in any other cooking utensil. High Heat: Stir-Fry Cooking is all about high heat and fast cooking. You cannot make takeaway-style fried rice on low heat. Hence, keep the stovetop heat high while stir-frying the chicken, vegetables, and rice.
Recipe Variation
Fried Rice is a highly customizable dish. Here are a few of my favourite recipe variations of chicken fried rice.
My Tried & True Tips
Tip 1: Stay away from overcooked rice If you are thinking of stir-frying, avoid using hot and mushy rice. The ideal choice is al dente, cold, or slightly undercooked rice. Tip 2: Marinated chicken adds a lot of flavours A quick marinade of soy sauce and vinegar gives the chicken an excellent depth of flavour and saltiness. However, it is an optional step. Tip 3: Meal Prep The fried rice is a quick and fast meal. So prep beforehand all the vegetables, herbs, sauce, and seasoning, and place them next to your cooking stove within reach of your hands. This step ensures that you don’t stop while stir-frying over high heat. Tip 4: Use Wok Use a wide wok or stir-fry pan to stir and mix the rice, vegetables, and chicken while frying.
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Serving Suggestion
If you are in the mood to make an elaborate takeaway-style meal at home, here are a few of my family’s favourite main-course dish suggestions to accompany fried rice: Vegetable in Hot Garlic Sauce – one-pot vegetable gravy Chilli Mushroom Sauce – vegan, spicy, one-pot gravy Veg Manchurian Gravy – Indian-Chinese takeaway-style vegan meatballs Dry Chilli Chicken – takeaway style saucy fried chicken
More Chinese Style Recipes
Smashed Cucumber Salad Chinese Chicken Salad Chicken Noodles Soup Asian Chicken Meatballs Tofu Vegetable Stir Fry Homemade Chilli Oil Stir-Fried Broccoli Kung Pao Chicken
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