Shu-Fen's Fried Rice

If you read my Orange Chicken recipe, you may recall my deep, abiding love for Chinese food.  A Chinese lady in our church makes the most phenomenal fried rice, and last year she showed the ladies in a ladies' meeting how to make it.  I take liberties with her recipe, as I don't often have everything that she calls for in the original.  The real essentials are rice (duh!), soy sauce, cooking oil, and eggs.

 

Ingredients

3-1/2 cups dry rice (jasmine rice is best!)

3 small carrots, diced, boiled till tender (throw them in with the rice while it's cooking)

2 heads broccoli (use some of the stem; peel first for tenderness)

8 oz. fresh mushrooms, cleaned and sliced

1 medium green pepper, cut into small chunks

7 eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper, scrambled

1 boneless, skinless chicken breast, diced

1 medium regular onion, chopped

3-4 green onions, chopped finely

1/2 lb. ham, diced

Soy sauce

Sesame oil, optional

• Cook the rice as directed on the package.  While rice (and carrots) is cooking, boil or stir-fry the broccoli, sliced mushrooms and green peppers for about 3 minutes until crisp-tender.  Set aside on plate.
• Scramble eggs in wok or large sauce pan. Set aside on plate.
• In wok or large sauce pan, saute the chicken chunks and regular onion together with soy sauce and pepper until chicken is cooked through. Set aside on plate.

• Heat pan/wok to medium-high heat.  Add a little cooking oil and the cooked rice.  Add dashes of soy sauce, sesame oil, and pepper as you stir fry the rice. The sesame oil is really just a flavor/aroma addition, so no need to douse the rice with this.  Keep adding soy sauce until the rice is a light brown color.  

• After rice is hot, add broccoli, mushroom, pepper mix, scrambled eggs, chicken-onion mix, green onions and ham to the wok.  Season with salt and pepper to taste and stir fry until hot.

 I was very nice and shared this with my family one night, but I ate every bit of the leftovers by myself over the next 3 days.  Yum-Yum.

This post is linked to Tasty Tuesday, Tuesday Tastes, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Tuesdays at the Table, Full Plate Thursday, and Frugal Food Thursday.