All about fried rice...

Fried rice is one of my favorite meals. It's not overly complicated, once you get the hang of it you can knock it up pretty quick, & you can use basically whichever vegetables you like!

Here are a few that I like to mix & match...
- Carrots
- Silver beet (Swiss chard)
- Onion
- Red capsicum (Bell pepper)
- Peas
- Corn
- Zucchini
- Mushrooms
- Brussels sprouts
- Broccoli


I also like to add chunks of tofu in my fried rice mix, & sometimes I add roughly chopped cashew nuts too, s'all good.


Of course it wouldn't be fried rice without the rice! You need to have rice pre-cooked & ready to add to the veggies. This is far quicker & easier if you have a good rice cooker, because you can simply stick the rice on before you start anything else, you won't have to worry about it which leaves you free to started prepping the other ingredients.
If you don't have a rice cooker don't even worry, there are other methods to cook rice. The easiest I know of imitates rice cookers & is commonly referred to as 'the absorption method'.

This is my beautiful rice cooker. I bought it about 4 years ago on eBay, I haven't seen any like this since then, but take a look around & see what you can find. Tiger & Zojirushi are both excellent brands, but pretty much anything made in Japan is gonna be good.If you love rice a good rice cooker might be an investment worth considering..

& finally you need the flavoring ingredients, I like to use -
- Mirin
- GF Soy sauce, or Tamari
- Brown sugar or Agave syrup or golden syrup
- Salt & Pepper
- Diced garlic
- Vegan fish sauce


Ingredients:
- 3 cups Cooked white medium grain rice (approx 1 cup uncooked)
- Vegetables of your choice
- Flavoring ingredients of choice
- Oil for cooking


Method:
1. Put rice on to cook (preferably in a rice cooker)
2. Chop up all the vegetables to desired size. Mince the garlic & set aside.
3. Lightly beat 3 eggs in a mixing bowl/jug & gently fry them up (be careful not to overcook) & set them aside.
4. Heat some oil in a skillet & add all the vegetables. Cook on a medium heat for a minute & then add the flavouring ingredients. Cook for a further 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.
5. Once the veggies are ready, lower the heat & add the chunky scrambled egg & the cooked rice. Gently turn the mix & check the flavour, you can add some extra mirin, soy sauce &/or pepper if needed.
6. Once the vegetables are well spread throughout the rice, turn off the heat & serve :D


***NOTE - When using leafy vegetables like silver beet, don't add them at the very start with all the other vegetables or they will overcook! Leave them aside until the rest of the vegetables are almost done, they only need a minute or two to soften up, they taste best that way.


Not too difficult right. : )

Enjoy!