Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Making Fried Rice


                 
There are lots and lots of recipes for fried rice. The one I use is highly dependent upon whatever happens to be in the fridge at the time :) You don't have to be traditional; you can use whatever you like. Today I decided to make fried rice with the day-old rice I had leftover. First I sauteed chopped onion, mushrooms, and baby bok choy. Perhaps that sounds strange to you, but I like this vegetable -- it's so cute!


After the vegetables get nice and soft, remove from the pan.


Then, I add the cold rice into the pan and fry it up, breaking up the clumps with the spoon. Some people fry the egg separately, but I just add the fork-beaten eggs directly onto the rice and scramble it all together. Then I add the secret ingredient.


I know, it's really untraditional. And we don't really eat a lot of soy "meat" products. But this tastes really good, and gives a nice spicy flavor to the rice. And, it hides the bitterness of the choy, which is a plus for getting the kids to eat it. If you wanted to make it Mexican rice, you might skip the mushrooms and choy and instead use cilantro and green onion, and you could garnish with avocado. We have done that, too. Soyrizo is also great with scrambled eggs or macaroni and cheese. But today it was fried rice.


Yummy! Kids ate it all up. See its use in my boy's bento. ^_^

9 comments:

  1. Basically you can put anything on the fried rice if for me hehehe ... Your fried rice looks very yummy, makes me want some. It's great you can have that Soyrizo. We don't have many soy products here. I better run away from your fried rice before I become really hungry :o)

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  2. I'd definitely try that soyrizo, sounds yummy! TFS.

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  3. I love soyrizo! Unfortunatly, there's never any left for fried rice. :)

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  4. Your fried rice looks really good! I do it as you do. Use everything I have at home to make it ;)

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  5. I am curious how good the soyrizo taste.
    Maybe I should look into getting some soy stuff.

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  6. Yummy!!! I like the idea of using bok choy, I love that stuff! :)

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  7. Beautiful bento too! You can make everything look like a million dollars!

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  8. Thanks Lia, Just a MOM, hapa bento, Lil'chan, ((Ms.K)), and Susan!
    Soyrizo may be an acquired taste/texture, but it's worth a try to see if you like it!

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