The sizzle of rice in the pan, the aromatic glow of garlic and ginger, and the sweet nuttyness if roasting vegetables... What's not to love about friend rice?
One of my favorite quick meals, fried rice is an easy recipe that can feed a group of people in a hurry.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup: White rice
- 3 to 4: eggs
- 1 bunch: bok choy
- 3: small carrots
- 3 cups: snap peas or snow peas, de-stemmed
- 1: onion
- garlic (to taste)
- ginger (to taste)
- 3 tablespoons: oyster sauce
- 3 tablespoons: mirin (cooking sake)
- oil (for cooking)
- soy sauce (to taste)
Tools
- pot/rice cooker/instant pot
- wok (or large frying pan)
- measuring cups
- spoon
- spatula
- knife
Rice
Rinse rice and and add to pot or rice cooker. Add 2 cups of water and cook for 15 minutes or until soft.
(If you have an instant pot, use 1 cup + 1 tablespoon of water and cook for 12 minutes on high pressure - or use the rice setting. Make sure to let the pressure release naturally or the rice will stick badly to your pot!)
Once rice is ready, fluff briefly with a spoon and put aside.
Vegitable
Dice carrots and onion.
Chop the bok choy (but leave the peas whole).
Put the wok over high heat and spread oil over surface. Once wok is hot, add carrots. Gently turn for 5 minutes until carrots are mostly cooked through and browned in places.
Add the onion and let sit on the high heat, flipping occasionally until onions are translucent and carmalized in places.
Add remaining Vegitable and continue to cook on high heat for about three minutes. Add mirin and combine, then cook until bok choy is soft.
Once the vegetables are fully cooked set aside in a bowl.
Rice and egg
Beat eggs in bowl.
Have rice, eggs, and oyster sauce close at hand.
Clean out your wok, and place back on the high heat adding another teaspoon or so of oil and swirling it around to coat the surface of the wok.
Add rice and stir until coated lightly in oil. Move rice to one side of the wok with the spatula creating a space to cook the egg. You do not want to add directly to the rice, because the rice will soak up the egg and end up with a very different dish!
Add to diet an egg to the open side of the Walk taking care not to allow too much of the egg to soak into any of the rice.
Let sit on a high heat and gently scramble the egg until mostly firm.
Now, quickly add the oyster sauce to the egg and the rice. Combine all ingredients together. Once combined add the vegetables from our earlier step directly into the wok. This is the best time to add the ginger and garlic as well if you are using them.
Combine all ingredients for about 1 minute and then remove from the heat.
Prosper!
Add two bowls, garnish with green onion or your favorite sauces. Soy sauce is always a good choice. A nice side of kimchi will also not go amiss!
I hope you like this recipe, let me know in the comments how it turned out!