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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable or peanut oil
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 scallions, chopped
- 1 lightly packed cup bean sprouts
- 1 cup frozen peas, thawed
- 1 1/2 cups day old Right Rice, recipe follows
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce, plus more to taste
- 1 tablespoon chili sauce (recommended: Sriracha)
- 2 eggs, beaten
Directions
In a large nonstick saute pan or wok, heat the oil over high heat. When the oil begins to swirl, add the ground pork, salt and ginger. Break the pork up with a spoon and stir while browning. When the pork is cooked through and golden, add the garlic, scallions, bean sprouts and peas. Stir and cook for a minute or so more, then push it to the side and add a bit more oil, if needed. Add the rice and quickly stir to heat and toast the rice. Once a crust has formed on some of the rice, add the soy sauce and chili sauce. Season with more salt, if needed. Incorporate the rice with the rest of the ingredients in the pan. Once combined, push to the sides and add the eggs to the center, allowing the eggs to curdle lightly. Rapidly stir the rice in to coat while the eggs are cooking. The eggs act as glue instead of being left as big curds separated from the rice. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve immediately
Right Rice:
- 1 1/2 cups Carolina rice
- Water, for rinsing and cooking
Rinse the rice 3 times to remove the starch. Put the rice in a medium saucepan. Fill the saucepan with enough water to cover the rice by 1/2-inch. Or measure by putting your thumb tip on the rice and filling the pot with water until the water reaches the middle of your thumbnail. Bring the rice to a simmer over low heat, then cover and cook until tender and liquid is evaporated, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let the rice stand another 5 minutes, covered.
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By Maxxe
on January 02, 2013
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Just made this tonight, and all the rave reviews are well-deserved - it's delicious, flavourful (so tasty and really quick and easy to prepare (I love anything I can throw together quickly in my wok. It's also really convenient because you can swap out certain ingredients for whatever you have in the fridge. For example, I left out the peas and beansprouts, since I didn't have any, and used a little broccoli, cauiliflower, green peppers and cabbage instead. I used a light chili sauce as I didn't have any Sriracha. I also used onions instead of scallions and oyster sauce in place of soy sauce. It still came out great - so good I ended up eating more than I probably should have!
Some tips to get good results with this: If you're using frozen veg, be sure to thaw it so you don't end up with a lot of liquid in the pan. Also, be sure not to overcook the rice when you first prepare it, or you'll end up with mushy fried rice.
I will definitely be trying this out again soon! Thanks Sunny!
By Lillymomof3
on December 29, 2012
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This recipe is the bomb! My family loves it and I get requests all the time to make it. I like to show off a little while skillfully preparing this in the wok. So easy to make. Thanks Sunny.
By Cheesto
Indianapolis, IN
on October 13, 2012
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REALLY great fried rice. We don't include the scallions or bean sprouts and we upped the soy sauce to about 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon (we use LITE soy sauce because that's what we have in our fridge. After making this dish about 5 times, I realized that I was using Sambal Oelek chili paste instead of Sriracha. Still, I can only use 1 teaspoon of it. Any more than this and it overpowers the dish.
Suggestions:
- Add texture and slight sweetness, dice up one carrot to roughly the size as the peas, and add them at the same time as adding the peas to the dish.
- Add 4 eggs instead of 2
- Adding a few pinches of salt & pepper to the rice, and to the eggs separately before mixing it all together makes a big difference.
- Note that the rice can start to form a crust within 15 seconds once you add the soy sauce and Sriracha - make sure to scrape under the rice a bit as you cook the eggs. Once the eggs are almost set, stir it all together and take it off the heat to serve!
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