Fried Rice

"You'll never buy the fried rice from the local Chinese restaurant when you discover how easy and (above all) great tasting this recipe is. The secret is the sesame oil. If you don't have that, don't bother making it! Can add cooked chunked baby carrots and peas, if desired. Cold rice works best so it doesn't get mushy. I usually cook my rice the day before and keep in the refrigerator until ready to prepare."
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Beat eggs with ¼ tsp salt.
  • Heat 2 Tbls peanut oil in large skillet over medium heat 1 minute.
  • Pour in beaten eggs.
  • Stir continuously until eggs are cooked dry and separated into small pieces.
  • Remove eggs and set aside.
  • Heat 3 Tbls peanut oil over medium heat 1 minute.
  • Add green onions and rice.
  • Stir-fry 5 minutes.
  • Add chicken broth, remaining salt and soy sauce.
  • Stir to mix well.
  • Stir in cooked eggs, pepper and sesame oil and cooked pork (if desired).

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Reviews

  1. Very nice. However, I've been making fried rice for years and am half Chinese, and I would say you really don't NEED the sesame oil (no offence). The peanut oil, I've found, is quite important though. Peanut oil (as opposed to olive oil and other oil) seems to give it the best flavour and colour.
     
  2. This was delicious! It was a special request of my son's as he will only eat rice if it's fried! Green onions are not favorites around my house so I substitued chopped sweet onion. Also, I subbed vegetable boullion for the chicken broth since my daughter is a vegetarian (and omitted the meat). For the rest of us, I served it with Thai Shrimp, and peas on the side. The sesame oil really added a little extra oomph. Really easy and quick and delicious. I will definitely make this again!
     
  3. Easy and very flavorable. Very easy to add variations (peas, cooked diced carrots, shrimp, chicken, pork, etc.). Thanks for sharing this recipe.
     
  4. WOW this was so good!!!!! You are correct when you say you will never need to get fried rice from a restaurant again. Lots of flavor and very easy to make. I added cooked pork and thawed peas to mine. Served it with Lemon Chicken-Just Like Take Out (137627) and Easy Chicken Egg Rolls (113223). Made for a wonderful dinner. The only thing is that I made the rice using 2 cups of uncooked and it made well over 4 cups of cold rice, so next time I will only use 1 cup of uncooked rice to make this.
     
  5. There are a ton of fried rice recipes on the site and this is BAR NONE is the closest to authentic Chinese restaurant fried rice. Next time I'll add bean sprouts, as is traditional in Chicago's restaurants. Delicious!
     
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Tweaks

  1. Yeah - first time for me in years to make brown rice correct and used chicken stock instead of water, which makes this dish beautiful. I used bacon bits and yellow onion and the rest as written. Used with Shrimp fry #129262 also tasty.
     
  2. This was delicious! It was a special request of my son's as he will only eat rice if it's fried! Green onions are not favorites around my house so I substitued chopped sweet onion. Also, I subbed vegetable boullion for the chicken broth since my daughter is a vegetarian (and omitted the meat). For the rest of us, I served it with Thai Shrimp, and peas on the side. The sesame oil really added a little extra oomph. Really easy and quick and delicious. I will definitely make this again!
     
  3. This was the first time I have made fried rice that turned out well.I feel the sesame oil made the difference. My picky family loved it. I added peas to the recipe,a dash of garlic powder and I used chicken instead of pork. I will make this recipe again and that is saying alot.
     
  4. Excellent. One of the simplest fried rice recipes here and simply excellent. I've made lots of fried rice, too. :) I subbed tofu for the pork. We LOVED this. If I had had frozen peas I would have added them. Brava!
     

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