Fried rice is a traditional Chinese dish. This is one of the common and very popular dishes in a country with various religious cults. Everyone likes it, especially those who have decided to try East Asian cuisine for the first time. Rice is prepared quickly and easily. It does not require any culinary skills, special utensils and is great for dinner or dinner.
When preparing any recipe for fried rice, you should take into account a small nuance: you should not use freshly cooked rice in the dish. In all recipes, only cold rice should be used, which should cool after cooking and cool for several hours (or cooked overnight). This technique allows cereal grains to dry thoroughly, acquire the necessary shape, and not break during frying and get a pleasant shade.
Classic Chinese rice
To prepare rice with an egg in Chinese style, you will need the following products:
- 150-200 gr. long-grain rice (you can variety Basmati)
- 2.5 cups of water
- 2 garlic cloves
- a small can of canned green peas without marinade
- three eggs
- 1 st. a spoonful of soy sauce
- three onions
- 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil
- salt and spices
- greenery
Rice should be thoroughly washed, pour out excess water and dry a little through a sieve. Then it must be boiled until half cooked, drain the liquid and rinse with cold water so that it does not stick together. Next, the cereal must be cooled for several hours.
Pour the eggs into a separate saucepan and, stirring, keep over low heat until a thick egg mass forms.
Lightly fry the diced onion in a pan, add green peas, boiled semi-cooked rice, soy sauce, salt and spices. Put the eggs last. Next, the dish should be stewed for several minutes until fully cooked.
Rice with egg, ginger and saffron
For the recipe you need to take:
- 3 eggs
- half an onion
- garlic clove
- a pinch of saffron
- 5 g fresh ginger
- vegetable (soybean) oil for frying
- 85 g dry white wine
In vegetable oil (preferably soy), fry the chopped half of the onion, garlic clove, ginger and saffron. Add chilled boiled rice to the resulting frying and, stirring, continue to fry. In a separate bowl, mix eggs with wine and beat with a fork or whisk. Combine the rice with the egg mixture and stir quickly so that no lumps form. Bring the crumbly rice-egg mass to the readiness of the cereal.
To improve the taste at the end of cooking, you can add a piece of butter.
Chinese rice with vegetables
This recipe will need:
- package of frozen vegetables
- 3.5 cups boiled and chilled rice
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 eggs
- 1 spoon of soy sauce
- vegetable or soybean oil for frying
In a frying pan, a mixture of frozen vegetables is fried in heated oil. At this time, the eggs are thoroughly mixed in a separate bowl. After 10 minutes of stewing, move the vegetables in the pan to the side and pour beaten eggs into the vacant place, which must be mixed immediately (otherwise they may “grab”). Then the eggs and vegetables are mixed. Prepared boiled rice, salt to taste, sauce and garlic, passed through a garlic press, are added to the resulting mass. After the rice is thoroughly heated, it can be laid out on plates.
Chinese fried rice with shrimp
For a quick meal, you need to take:
- 200 g boiled and cooled rice
- 3 eggs
- 13-14 pcs. large shrimp
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- package of frozen vegetables
- 2 green onion feathers
- oil for frying vegetables
First you need to clean and salt the shrimp in advance, chop the green onions, beat the eggs. In a preheated deep frying pan, you need to fry the shrimp for two minutes, then remove them to a plate and let the oil drain. Next, beaten eggs are fried in hot oil for 35 seconds, after which boiled and chilled rice is added to them. The whole mass is quickly mixed and continues to stew. When the rice is crumbly, vegetables and are placed in the pan. A minute after frying, oyster sauce and chopped green onions are added to the mixture. After 30 seconds, the dish is removed from the heat and laid out on plates.
Chinese rice should be served hot. Each plate must first be decorated with fresh herbs. This dish can serve as a separate dish or as a side dish for meat chops, fried meat and fish.
Some variations of this dish add carrots, bell peppers, cauliflower, and other seasonal vegetables. Having shown imagination, you can experiment with your products - champignons, chicken meat, pork, smoked sausage. By adding them to the dish in their proportions, you will get your own “Chinese egg rice”, which will satisfy personal taste preferences.
You can watch the preparation of rice in Chinese with an egg on the video.
In this article, we will tell you how to cook Chinese egg rice. This moderately satisfying meal is quite easy to prepare. But the Chinese see in it not so much nutritional value as deep meaning.
Basics of Chinese cuisine
At the heart of thousands of years of Chinese cooking is the basic postulate (in addition to saturating a person with food): each dish must be balanced in structure, aroma and color. The ingredients of many dishes often have a sacred meaning. For example, in rice with an egg there are only two such symbolic components.
Rice, according to the Chinese, symbolizes wealth and prosperity. And the egg in the Taoist practice of Feng Shui, as in many other cultures, means fertility.
In various regional cuisines of China, rice with egg is prepared in different ways. It is served in bowls as a separate dish or as a side dish for delicious seafood: shrimp, expensive fish, squid, octopus.
Soy sauce is an essential ingredient in all Chinese egg rice recipes. And it is best to choose light sauces - they will not change the color of the dish. Rice is cooked in a traditional deep dish - a Chinese frying pan with a semicircular bottom - a wok.
Rice preparation
Rice of long-grain varieties (basmati, jasmine, parboiled species) is washed in a sieve under running water several times to wash off dust and sticky substances from the shell of the grains.
When cooking rice, you need to add water to it in a ratio of 1: 2, so it will turn out crumbly and not stick together.
Recipe number 1: classic
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups rice
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 eggs
- small bunch of green onions
- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- half cup canned green peas
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- salt pepper.
Cooking
- Boil rice until tender for 10-15 minutes, depending on the variety.
- Finely chop garlic and onion.
- We put a pan with a thick bottom on the burner, heat it, break the eggs into it. Stir with a whisk, the mass should “grab” a little.
- In a deep frying pan: Heat the oil in a wok or deep fryer. We put chopped garlic, onions, peas in it, let it boil for several minutes.
- Add rice, fried eggs and soy sauce to this mixture. Season with pepper and stir. Keep on fire for no more than a minute, stirring constantly.
- The dish is served hot, as soon as we remove the pan from the heat. To it you can offer cheese, boiled pork, mushrooms and shrimps.
Recipe #2: Rice with Egg and Nuts
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups rice
- small piece of butter
- 3 eggs
- half a cup of cashew nuts
- small bunch of dill
- 3 stalks of green onions
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- salt, ground red pepper - to taste.
Cooking
- Boil the rice until cooked, drain the water, rinse the grains under running water.
- Finely chop the dill and green onion feathers. Chop the nuts with a sharp knife.
- Beat the eggs with a whisk or mixer at high speeds. Salt, pepper. Add the chopped dill to the egg mixture and stir.
- Melt some butter in a frying pan. Pour eggs with herbs into it, cover with a lid, and reduce the heat. When a thin omelette is fried on one side, turn it over, hold for another minute. Then we take it out of the pan, roll it into a tube, put it on a cutting board and cut into thin rings. The result is omelet "spirals".
- Gently mix them with boiled rice, green onions and nuts. Chinese food is ready!
Chinese Egg Rice- the dish is quite healthy, satisfying, and most importantly nutritious. It is quickly absorbed and gives you energy for the whole day. How to cook it?
Ingredients
To prepare this wonderful dish, we need:
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 150 g of rice for four servings;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 5 green "feathers" of onions;
- a tablespoon of soy sauce;
- pepper or salt to taste;
Cooking
- It is necessary to undercook the rice a little so that it does not become like porridge. The proportions of water and cereals for cooking rice should be 1:2. Remember to add more water to keep the rice fluffy.Never put rice in cold water. You can throw it only into salted boiled water and almost do not interfere.
- Then, when our rice is almost ready, put it in a colander and pour hot boiled water over it well. Let the rice dry for a couple of minutes.
- Meanwhile, break into a heated pan and stir continuously so that they are fried "flakes". You can beat them in advance so that the protein and yolk are evenly distributed.
- Mix rice with eggs in a separate bowl and add oil, seasonings, onion and garlic to taste. It would be better to crush the garlic with your palm, rather than a garlic press. Add a spoonful of soy sauce, mix thoroughly and let our rice brew a little.
Chinese Egg Rice Options
Even in China, this rice is prepared in different ways, which makes this dish special. In some ways, it even looks like Olivier, they put everything that is at hand into it. Often crabs or shrimp are added to rice. You can also add beans, green peas and corn. To further diversify our dish, you can add traditional Chinese spices: sage, coriander, curry, thyme, sesame, bay leaf.
Surprising your family and friends with an exotic dish without leaving your home is not difficult at all. At the same time, you can cook it yourself and from familiar products. In Thailand, dishes are often prepared that surprise Europeans with an unusual combination of familiar ingredients. Thai Fried Rice with Egg is the perfect introduction to Asian cuisine. The finished dish is a bit like rice with vegetables, but it has a rich taste and color.
Ingredients for Thai Fried Rice:
- long-grain rice - 100 g (0.5 cup);
- water - 200 ml (1 glass);
- egg - 1 piece;
- soy sauce - 50 ml (0.25 cups);
- sweet bell pepper - 50 g (0.5 pieces);
- vegetable oil - 40 ml (0.25 cups);
- garlic - 1 large clove;
- ginger, fresh herbs;
- red pepper, salt, curry.
Roasting time: 10-15 minutes.
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes.
Total time: 20-30 minutes.
Quantity: 2 servings.
We offer to cook fried rice with an egg according to a simple recipe with a photo.
- We sort the rice, wash it in several waters.
Advice. Thai rice is best cooked from long-grain varieties.
- Fill the container with rice groats with clean water and cook over low heat until the moisture has completely evaporated.
Advice. Grains can be boiled in advance.
- Peel the garlic and cut into thin slices.
- Heat up the pan and fry the garlic pieces for 1-2 minutes until golden brown.
Advice. The garlic must be constantly stirred so that it does not burn.
- Wash pepper, remove seeds, cut into cubes.
- We remove the fried garlic from the pan, and in fragrant garlic oil we need to fry the pieces of bell pepper.
- We wash the greens, finely chop and add to fry to the bright pepper.
- After 2-3 minutes, add ginger.
Advice. 1-2 cm of peeled ginger root can be finely grated or add ⅓ teaspoon of dried ginger.
- Lightly beat the egg and pour it into the hot skillet in a thin stream. The mixture is vigorously stirred for 2-3 minutes.
- We spread the boiled cereals in a pan and mix with the already fried ingredients.
- Add soy sauce, curry, pepper, mix and leave the dish to simmer for 5-6 minutes.
Advice. Soy sauce is salty, so add salt very carefully.
- We spread our rice, fried with an egg, in a stylized dish or a neat slide and invite relatives to taste a Thai dish.
Advice. You can serve fried rice with chicken or as an independent dish.
shrimp rice recipe
Asian dishes are not only always freshly prepared, but also healthy. They use a lot of herbs and vegetables. Dishes with seafood, shrimp are subjected to minimal heat treatment.
How to cook rice with shrimp, we also considered in this
Required Ingredients:
- boiled rice - 200 g (1 cup);
- raw shrimp - 200 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- tomato - 50 g (1 small fruit);
- onion - 50 g (1 small onion);
- carrots - 50 g (1 small root vegetable);
- garlic - 1 large tooth;
- an ear of young corn - 1 piece;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- soy sauce - 40 ml;
- fish sauce - 20 ml;
- sugar - 10 g
Roasting time: 7-10 minutes.
Cooking time: 4-5 minutes.
Total time: 15-20 minutes.
Quantity: 2 servings.
How to make Fried Rice with Shrimp and Egg:
- We clean and wash vegetables.
- Cut the cob of corn and carrots into circles 0.5 cm wide.
- Onion and tomato cut into cubes.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Stir the egg in a separate bowl.
- Heat up a frying pan with oil and fry the chopped garlic on it for no more than 1 minute.
Advice. Cooking over high heat.
- Put the shrimp in the pan and fry for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly.
Advice. To prevent the shrimp meat from becoming rubbery, cook everything quickly, stirring regularly.
- Pour the egg mass into the pan and mix vigorously again.
Advice. The ingredients must be mixed with a silicone or wooden spatula.
- Pour chopped vegetables, add fish and soy sauces, sugar.
- Add boiled cereals to the mixture of vegetables and eggs. Break up all the lumps with a spatula and mix the ingredients.
- Put in a bowl, slightly compact and turn on a flat plate.
- Serve hot Thai fried rice with egg and shrimp.
Rice is the most common cereal in all of Asia, so who, if not the Chinese, knows many recipes for cooking dishes from it. I learned how to cook Chinese rice with egg from a Chinese friend of mine. In fact, there are no rare products and secret additives in its preparation, and the taste is obtained with a very bright Asian flavor. Therefore, to diversify your home menu, you can cook Chinese fried rice.
Chinese Rice with Egg
how to cook rice in chinese recipe with photo
The total cooking time for fried rice with egg and vegetables will be 25-30 minutes.
Ideally, this dish should be cooked in a wok (Chinese pan with a round bottom) over high heat, but in the absence of such, we cook in a deep saucepan, frying pan or cauldron - as it suits you. I actually cooked Chinese rice in a slow cooker.
Ingredients:
- onion 1 pc.;
- carrots 1 pc.;
- rice 1 st.;
- garlic 2-3 cloves;
- egg 2 pcs.;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- salt, pepper, soy sauce - to taste.
Cooking process:
First you need to prepare the rice, for this you need to sort it out, rinse thoroughly several times until the water is clear. Boil until almost done. I used long parboiled rice (it doesn't go sour and always comes out fluffy). Clean and wash vegetables. Cut the onion into small cubes, crush the garlic with the flat side of the knife and finely chop.
Cut the carrots into small cubes too.
Crack the eggs into a bowl, add a little salt and beat well with a fork. In a frying pan, heat 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, pour eggs. Cook over high heat for 2-4 minutes, stirring with a spatula. You should only get a slightly golden crumb.
If you get large pieces, then you need to cool slightly, and then put on a cutting board and finely chop with a knife. So, in a well-heated oil, put onion and garlic at the same time, fry until a wonderful aroma of fried garlic spreads throughout the kitchen (1-2 minutes), add carrots and fry for a couple more minutes, pepper, lightly salt and put the boiled rice, mix, leave for 1 minute.
Pour in a little soy sauce and fry the rice for a few more minutes, stirring constantly, until the remaining moisture has evaporated.
Salt again if necessary. The fried rice side dish is very good on its own, but in our family it is most often served with spicy chicken wings and some kind of vegetable salad.
Anna Mikhailichenko told how to cook rice in Chinese with an egg, recipe and photo of the author.