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Fried Rice
Fried rice is a quick, easy and nutritious dish.
Ideally the rice should be cooked the day before (see the steamed rice recipe), spread out on a tray and allowed to cool and dry in the refrigerator. Once it has cooled it can be placed in an airtight container and stored in the refrigerator till the next day. This is not essential but it helps to stop the rice sticking together when you are making the fried rice.
The ingredients are not critical and you can use lots of different ingredients as long as they do not produce too much moisture on cooking. The ingredients I have listed here are suggestions – feel free to experiment.
Ingredients:
2 or 3 eggs
100 – 200 g bacon rashers, chopped
2 or 3 shallots or 1 small onion
1 red capsicum, chopped
2 small carrots, diced
1 tin baby corn, chopped
soy sauce
oil for cooking
4 cups cooked rice
Method:
- Lightly whisk the eggs.
- Heat a little oil in the wok and cook the egg turning it over halfway through the cooking process. You may find it better if you rotate the wok to get the egg to coat the sides thus forming a thin omlette rather than having a thick mass of egg at the bottom of the wok.
- Remove egg from wok and set aside. When cool, cut into small pieces.
- Heat a little oil in the wok and add the chopped bacon, If using onion instead of shallots add it at the same time as the bacon. Stir fry for a couple of minutes.
- Add the carrot and stir fry a further two minutes.
- Add remaining vegetables (including shallots) and cook a further two minutes.
- Add cooked rice and stir through until rice is heated. Add soy sauce to taste.
- When rice has heated, add chopped egg and stir through.
- Serve while hot.
Variations:
As noted earlier you can use lots of different ingredients depending on what is in season and what you have available at the time. For example, you could use celery and add it at the same time as the carrot. You could use broccoli or cauliflower, beans, snowpeas, mushrooms etc.
Tips
If you use different coloured vegetables, the dish will look appetising and inviting. This is one way to get kids to eat vegetables they might not otherwise eat. If the vegetables are chopped finely, they don’t stand out so much and the flavour combines with the other ingredients so the kids may be less likely to object to eating it.
