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You don’t need a wok, you just need a good pan.
My favourite
rice cooker!
Uncommon Ingredients
Gochujang
Kimchi
1. Egg fried rice
INGREDIENTS
SERVES 2
2 eggs
1 cup of rice
1 sprig sping onion
1 clove garlic
Half cup frozen veg
Soy sauce
DIRECTIONS
Step 1: Chop up your spring onions and set it aside.
Step 2: Then we mash up the garlic and chop that up too.
Step 3: Which the two eggs
Step 4: To a pan add some peanut oil – once its’s heated add in your garlic and let that sizzle a bit, and then, add your whisked egg in, give it a stir and cook it til its around 50% cooked.
Step 5: Then you add your rice into the pan. It might help to break apart the rice with your hands before you add it in.
Step 6: To this we add our frozen veg. there’s corn, peas and carrots, but you can choose what you want.
Step 7: Once it’s looking like everything is relatively mixed in together, add in a tablespoon of soy sauce, make some space on the pan and pour the soy sauce on the side before mixing everything in together.
Step 8: Add in your chopped spring onions and give it a couple last tosses and there we have it, an egg fried rice
2. yang Zhou fried rice
INGREDIENTS
MAKES 2
100 g char siu
100g prawns
2 eggs
1 cup of rice
1 sprig sping onion
2 clove garlic
Prawn marinade
DIRECTIONS
Step 1: Start with chopping up the spring onions before mincing up a couple cloves of garlic, then grab your left over char siu and just chop them up into bite sized pieces.
Step 2: Then grab about 10 pieces of prawn and just cut them up to be a similar size as the char siu. Once that’s done – set that aside.
Step 3: Grab two eggs, whisk it up and set that aside too.
Step 4: Add some oil to a pan and once it’s hot enough add in your prawns. Cook them til they change color and then take it out of the pan.
Step 5: Then add in your garlic, let it sizzle, and then pour in your whisked eggs and like before let it cook to about 50% before adding in your rice
Step 6: Once the rice is in, mix it into the egg as quickly as possible.
Step 7: Then add in your prawns, give that a good stir – then add in your char siu, give that a good stir too before sprinkling in some spring onions.
Step 8: Add in some salt, add in a tad bit of soy sauce and your yang zhou chao faan is pretty much done.
3. beef with lettuce fried rice
INGREDIENTS
SERVES 2
150 grams of minced beef
1 third romaine lettuce
2 cloves garlic
2 eggs
1 cup rice
DIRECTIONS
Step 1: First we marinate the mince beef, I added ½ table spoon of rice wine, 1/3 tablespoon of sesame oil and ½ tablespoon of soy sauce, mixed it together and let is sit while you prepped the other ingredients.
Step 2: Then, like our previous 2 rice, chop up the spring onions, mince up a couple cloves of garlic, and then whisk up a couple eggs.
Step 3: After you wash the romaine lettuce, chop it up lengthwise.
Step 4: Add some oil to the pan and the first thing we are cooking up is the minced beef. Give it a good stir, break it apart until it’s all cooked. Once that’s cooked, take it out.
Step 5: Then add in your garlic into the wok. Then your eggs. Cook the eggs til it’s about 60% cooked before adding in your rice.
Step 6: Add in your rice and stir it in as quick as possible until each grain is evenly coated with egg.
Step 7: Add your minced beef back into the rice, give it a good stir and once it’s thoroughly stirred in, add in a tablespoon of soy sauce just on the side of the rice before adding in your chopped lettuce.
Step 8: Add salt, white pepper and maybe more soy sauce to taste and you’re pretty much done!
4. bacon & kimchi fried rice
INGREDIENTS
SERVES 1
120g bacon
1 tablespoon gochujang (more if you want it more spicy)
2 cloves garlic
1 sprig spring onions
1/3 cup kimchi
1 cup rice
1 egg
DIRECTIONS
Step 1: Start with chopping up the spring onions and the minced garlic.
Step 2: Roughly chop up your kim chi.
Step 3: Then take out your bacon – I used middle bacon, and then chop them into small rectangles.
Step 4: Once the pan is heated up add your chopped bacon into the pan and give it a good stir. Take it out of the pan once it’s cooked.
Step 5: Then add a bit of oil and add in your garlic, before adding in your kim chi and then your rice.
Step 6: Once your rice is thoroughly mixed in, add in your gochujang, give it a very good mix.
Step 7: Add in half a tablespoon of soy sauce, just on the side and finally add your bacon back into the rice. Give it a good toss or a mix.
Step 8: This step is optional: I usually top it up with a sunny side up egg
