Wonder what to do with leftover cooked rice? No worry! you can turn it into fried rice with eggs, frozen vegetables, meat and seafood. Today, no lup cheong (Chinese sausage) but must have chili sauce.

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”.

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. Although it’s “plain” in its ingredient list and technique, it’s a fantastic dish to learn some very valuable and basic Chinese cooking skills. Which I am learning from my grandma and mom. It’s an easy mid-week dinner idea that can be stirred up in a flash.

I am trying out teriyaki and kicap manis sauce. Got to try either wise I would never know the flavour of both sauces. I am glad that I did tryout. My meal is tasty delicious comforting. Let’s cook!!!

Ingredients

3 c cooked rice, 2-3 days old
2 chicken breasts, cut into bite size
1/2 small onion, diced
4 Tsp minced garlic, divided
2 large eggs, beaten
150 g mixed frozen vegetables: carrots, peas and corns, thawed in hot water
oil
salt
pepper

Marinade sauce for chicken

1 Tbs fish sauce
2 Tbs tamari
1 Tbs teriyaki sauce
1 Tsp chicken powder stock
3 dashes white pepper powder
1/4 Tsp bicarb of soda

Sauce for rice

2 Tbs soy sauce
1 1/2 Tbs Shoa Xing (Chinese cooking wine)
2 Tbs oyster sauce
1 Tbs teriyaki sauce
1 Tbs fish sauce
1/2 Tbs kicap manis sauce

Garnish

chili sauce

Method

Place chicken in a bowl. Add marinade sauce for chicken and mix well. Allow chicken to marinade for 20 minutes; make sure toss and stir around a couple of times. Heat up a saucepan with 1 Tbs of oil and add 2 Tsp garlic and onion, cook until soften and fragrant about 30 seconds, then add in chicken and cook until it changes from pink to white about 5 minutes until its cooked. Remove and set aside.

Now add in 1 Tbs oil, swirl around the saucepan, once hot add the remaining 2 Tsp garlic, toss around for 20 seconds, then add rice and sauce for rice ingredients and stir cook sauce until well combined and rice has some colour. Make a “well” in the middle of the wok and pour the beaten eggs in the well. Wait for 30 seconds and then cover the “egg well” with rice. Leave it for 30 seconds and continue to stir fry fried rice for 3-4 minutes so the eggs form small pieces and mix well with the fried rice. Now add in the mixed vegetables, toss to mixed well for 2-3 minutes.

Then add back the chicken with sauce. Mixed everything together for about 3-5 minutes. Spoon rice onto a pot and keep in fridge when cool and I can have them the next few days. Spoon some onto bowl and chili sauce around the top. Enjoy with a glass of white wine.

Note: You can add bok choy, fresh carrots, peas, green beans, bean shoots, lup cheong, bacon or minced pork, beef and fish. You may use herbs such as basil, parsley, coriander and kafir lime leaves as garnish. You may omit kicap manis sauce and teriyaki sauce. Just use dark soy sauce.

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