Ariel_Etaime: Why not remove the chicken and onions from the pan then reuse the same pan for all the delicious fond that the onion and chicken made?
JanwaRebelle: I make fried rice all the time and doing it all in one pot is super easy. This is just making something simple to make unnecessarily complicated.
Balsamiczebra: Gotta use old rice. Not fresh rice
something_something8: There are a lot of comments saying this isn’t that good – Can anyone link me a good one?
I’d really like to try making some **truly** great chicken fried rice.
PsychedelicAthetosis: This is terrible. The process is all wrong.
Sir_dr_pepper: I can already taste the blandness
Campgreenpoint: Add Kimchi, use day old rice, and cook it all in one pot.
studoroma: This is white people’s fried rice
Chaotix23: You’re telling me, a chicken fried that rice?
baconmanlovesbacon: This is a soild meh, I’d eat it but you can definitely improve by adding more aromatics cooking rice in the pan with the chicken, adding some heat like hot sauce or chilies
upyerpumper: Doesn’t look great. I don’t fancy those chunky onions and all looks a bit wet. Rice needs to sit in the fridge overnight I find to dry out a bit. Higher heat would help too, ideally in a wok or at least a cast iron pan.
kesharadesilva: The look of this dish screams “Made by a white person”. Definitely wouldn’t taste like an authentic Chinese fried rice.
kyan-: I LOVE mushy fried rice!!! /s
vidyagames: Where’s the flavour?
furtive: Mix some hoisin sauce in while beating the egg. Trust me.
writergeek: Ok, here’s what’s up with fried rice Hawaiian style…it should be more of a clean out the fridge and cook in one wok process. Basically if you have day old rice, you’re off to a good start. Want it dry so you don’t end up with mush.
Then see what veg you have. Onion is a must but freestyle the rest based on your taste and what’s in the fridge. Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, frozen peas, red bell peppers, bok choy…go for it. Chop it all up.
Now, what cooked meat do you have around? Some leftover chicken or steak? Hot dogs? Spam? Kielbasa? Fine, dice it up.
Nothing cooked? Chop up some chicken or bacon or shrimp. Whatever works.
You can start with oil, meat and onion. When the meat is almost browned, add minced garlic and even some finely minced ginger.
When I go with bacon, I cook it all the way and drain it on paper towels. I keep some grease in the pan to do the onions, garlic and so forth. I’ll add the bacon back in right at the end just to warm it back up.
Now, keep building by adding your veg, starting with stuff that takes longer to cook.
Once your veg is done, add in cold rice. Season with s&p, shoyu, maybe some oyster sauce or fish sauce for umami. Add spice using sriracha or sambal or gochujang or chopped kimchee and some of the juice from the jar. Add a few drops of sesame oil if you like. Taste and adjust until you’re happy.
Finally, make a well in the middle by pushing everything out to the edges. Crack 2 or so eggs in the well. Stir and scramble a bit, get it about 90% set and stir to incorporate. Take a final taste and adjust flavor as needed.
Serve topped with toasted sesame seeds, green onion, more sriracha if you want, even an over easy egg…go nuts.
Hope this helps some of you. This is just how I was taught and how I do it, so go easy on me.
EXScarecroW: Three pans? N fucking O
Gopens101: Amateur… you pour raw eggs in at the end and stir them through
rmpbklyn: Yuck frozen vegetables
EditioPrinceps: Eating with chopsticks like a retarded hipster.
PastelFlamingo150: This is about as authentic as PF Chang. No ginger, green onions, or chili peppers?
cremez: I love frying the garlic until it gets a bit golden brown before tossing in the rice with lots of salt and butter. Buttery garlicky fried rice as a variation. Raw garlic like this straight into the rice yeah…. no
vizigr0u: I read “Chicken-fried” rice so I was picturing something very different
DougEECummings: Full recipe from [TipHero](http://tiphero.com/fried-rice/)
**Fried Rice**
Prep: 10 Mins | Total: 30 Mins
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Easy
**Ingredients:**
* 2 Tablespoons Oil, divided
* 1 Cup Onion, chopped
* ½ Pound Boneless skinless chicken (Optional), cut into bite sized pieces (or boneless pork chop)
* ½ Tablespoon Butter
* Kosher Salt, to taste
* Ground Black Pepper, to taste
* ½ teaspoon Sesame oil
* 2 beaten Eggs
* 2 Cups Cold, cooked rice, grains separated/fluffed with a fork (day-old rice is great)
* 2 cloves Garlic, minced
* 1 Cup Frozen peas and carrots (thawed)
* 2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce, or to taste (reduced sodium is OK)
* 4 Green Onions (Optional), chopped
**Directions:**
1. In a large non-stick pan, heat 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat. Add the chopped onions and sauté them until they turn a nice brown color, about 8 – 10 minutes. Add the chicken (or pork) and season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 3 – 5 minutes until the meat is mostly cooked through. Remove the onions and meat from the pan and set them aside.
1. Season the beaten eggs with salt. Add ½ tablespoon of butter and oil to the pan and pour in beaten eggs. Cook the eggs, stirring occasionally, until they’re just cooked. If needed, break the eggs up into smaller pieces with a spatula. Remove the cooked eggs from the pan and set them aside.
1. Increase the heat to medium high and add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan. Once the pan is hot, add the cooked rice, cooked onions and meat, and garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally, until everything is heated through, about 5 minutes.
* Add the thawed peas and carrots and the soy sauce to rice mixture and sauté for 1 minute, mixing to combine.
* Garnish with chopped green onions, if desired. Serve warm.
Klepto666: Question about the egg… why?
Just hear me out for a sec. Unless it’s a vegan recipe, every single fried rice recipe I look up includes an egg.
But I’ve had fried rice at this one chinese place that *didn’t* use an egg, and it tasted exactly like any other fried rice, and the personal bonus of not having chunks of scrambled egg in the dish.
And if I ask anyone who makes fried rice at home why they do it, they either say “I just wanted an egg” or “This is how I was taught.”
So if it’s not needed to make the dish, not needed to replicate the flavor, and in the case of dishes like this where there’s already a protein… what’s the point/advantage?
poopermacho: In what world is that a beaten egg????
All you downvoters have clearly no fucking idea what it means to beat an egg
Slimjimwarrior: The cooking methods in many of the gif recipes suck. Not gonna brown any meat if you’re crowding the fuck out of the pan.
magnament: Yea but can they handle shrimp fried rice?
