Turn your leftover meal into a new creation

I have leftover tom yum fried rice, and bought lettuce and medley tomatoes. As it is a hot day, I craved for spicy food and decided to use the banana leave design plate my cousin bought for me. I don’t feel very hungry, just reheating some leftover rice to go with lettuce and tomatoes. A simple lunch today with no hassle in kitchen. I have written the recipe for you below.

Google: “Fried rice is a dish of cooked rice that has been stir-fried in a wok or a frying pan and is usually mixed with other ingredients such as eggs, vegetables, seafood, or meat. It is often eaten by itself or as an accompaniment to another dish.”

Traditional Chinese fried rice recipe calls for Chinese sausage or lup cheong, vegetables, eggs, overnight rice and soy sauce. The ingredients are cooked over intense high heat in a Chinese wok, with the essential aromas from the wok hei or breathe of wok.

The first thing you need to know about wok cooking is that oil is very important. To bring flavour around your dish, flavour the oil first. If you want to learn good wok technique, this simple fried rice is a good choice. Fried rice is affordable, quick and easy to make.

It’s a challenge that I am taking on with different ingredients, flavourful and colourful added to it technique of using a pan to occupy myself indoor: staying away from the hot day. My rice is orange bright colour, cooked in-one pan dish that is flavourful spicy, colourful, healthy, and delicious. It sure is well worth the attempt let’s cook!!!!

Ingredients

4 c cooked overnight rice
3 Chinese lup cheong sausage, cut into bite size
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 c frozen vegetables: carrots, corns and peas
1 onion, finely diced
4 Tbs tom yum paste
2 Tbs soy sauce
2 Tbs Shao Xing Chinese cooking wine
1 Tbs oyster sauce
1 Tbs fish sauce
3 Tsp minced garlic
2 Tsp sesame oil
1 Tsp diced ginger
oil
salt
white pepper

Garnish
3 cos lettuce leaves
6 medley cherries tomatoes

Method

Heat 4 Tbs oil in a hot pan until surface seems to glitter slightly. Pour beaten eggs into pan and leave to cook on the base of the pan for 10 seconds before folding egg mixture over onto itself with a spatula and lightly scrambling for about one minute or until almost cooked through. Carefully remove eggs from pan with a spatula and drain on paper towel. Set aside.

Add 1 Tbs oil and sauté 1 Tsp garlic until fragrant. Add Chinese lup cheong sausage, stir and cook for about 2 minutes until soft. Remove and set aside. Heat pan on medium high heat and add 4 Tbs oil. When the oil is hot, add 1 Tsp garlic and fry until fragrant. Then add onion and ginger. Stir fry for 1 to 2 minutes, until it starts to brown and soften.

Add in rice, tom yum paste, frozen vegetables, sauces and eggs. Stir to combined well with all the ingredients and rice is heated through and rice has orangy colour. for about 4 minutes. Use spatula to break up eggs into smaller pieces while cooking about 1 minutes. Push the rice into the middle of pan to let the edge of pan heat up. After about 20 seconds, pour Shao Xing wine around the edge of pan. Stir fry for another 20 seconds.

Adding the wine using this method gives the dish a little extra “wok hei” according to my grandma. At this point, taste the rice to see if it needs a little more salt, soy sauce, or white pepper and season accordingly. As soon as the rice becomes toasty, transfer rice to a bowls and serve immediately.

Today, I heated up my leftover tom yum fried rice and plate it up onto 3 lettuce leaves and medley cherries tomatoes as garnish. Serve it with a glass of white wine Enjoy!!!

Note: You can use fresh vegetables such as carrots, green beans, capsicums, and cabbage. You can also use any vegetables of your choice. You can add diced chicken or just use bacon. You may use herbs such as basil, parsley, coriander and kafir lime leaves. You may omit lup cheong use pork, squid, fish or beef. You may omit tom yum paste and use sambal chili paste.

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