Entry #8. An Egg Fried Rice Recipe

 Egg Fry Rice Recipe

    Today I am going to teach you guys how to make an authentic egg fried rice. I have lived in China for 14 years, and I work at a Chinese restaurant for about two years. I am someone to trust if you want to make a real egg fry rice. 

    Egg fried rice a meal that almost every Chinese knows how to make. Egg fried rice is easy to cook, tastes good, able to provide you many nutritions for the day, and it is perfect to have as a breakfast, lunch, or dinner. 

Rice is the first thing you need to make egg fried rice, you can use brown rice or white rice, but I prefer white rice because it tastes so much better than brown rice. You can make your own rice or use leftover rice from a Chinese restaurant. 

How to make the rice: 

1. Before we actually cooking the rice, you need to rinse the rice about twice through the water. The step cleans the rice and washes off some of the starch in rice to get a better texture of taste. 

2. For one person's egg fried rice, you will need one cup of white rice and one cup of water. The ratio between rice and water is always 1:1. If you make rice very often, you can almost eye measure the rice and water. (If you are going to make a lot of rice at once, remember to use a big pot. The rice and water combine should only fill about half of the pot, otherwise, water will boil out of the pot and get all over your stove)

3. Put all the rice and water in the rice cooker if you have one and press the "cook" button. If you don't have a rice cooker which most of us don't, grab a pot with a lid and put 1:1 rice and water in. 

4. Set your stove to medium-high fire and put the lid onto the pot because the rice needs the lid to keep all the steam inside the pot to cook. 

5. After about 15 minutes, your rice is done! If you think the rice is still a little too wet, leave it in the pot for five more minutes. 👏

6. Prepare for ingredients you like to put in your egg fry rice. Ingredients can be any kinds of vegetables or meat(chicken, beef, shrimp, peas, lettuce, broccoli...) you like, even your leftovers can go into your egg fried rice. The most important ingredients are eggs, usually two eggs for one person's egg fried rice.

7. Cracks two eggs in a bowl, stir them together with a fork. 

8. Have a pan on the stove(the pan better fit everything you want to put in the egg fried rice); turn the fire to medium, then put a little bit of oil (olive oil, peanut oil, butter...) in the pan. Pour your eggs into the pan and scramble them with a spatula. 

9. When you think the eggs are ready. Scoop the rice out from the pot with a spoon, then put those rice into the pan that already had eggs in it. 

10. Mix the rice and eggs together, put any ingredient you like from step 6 in the pan. 

11. It's time to flavor! If you have soy sauce or soy sauce bag from a Chinese restaurant, put four tablespoons or two bags of soy sauce in your rice for each person. Because soy sauce is salty, you will only need half a teaspoon of salt for a one-person egg fry rice. For people who don't like soy sauce, put one teaspoon of salt in the fried rice. I really like white pepper, so I usually add some white pepper flacks into my egg fried rice, so if you like any other flavors, feel free to add them to your rice!👍

12. Continue stirring your egg fried rice until the flavor gets to every part of the rice. 

11. Sprinkle some chopped scallions on top to add color and smell if you like. Then have a big plate or bowl to pour you egg fried rice in from the pan because it's done!😋

12. One more step, enjoy your homemade egg fried rice! 😉

After knowing how to make an authentic egg fried rice. Do you think it's easy to make? Can wait to try? Are you going to make egg fried rice for your family? 💪

In the present day, not many young people know how to make food for themselves. Why not discover more in cooking, just like art and music, cooking can be a hobby you love to try in life.