F R I E D R I C E

The ideology of fried rice is simple.. Rice and bunch of other stuff mixed together.. No cooking time, no measurements, no thickening, no blending, no sous vide, no mise en place! Just chop chop chop, lot of wok banging, sizzling sounds and boom! Just like that magic! FRIED RICE!

In our house Fried rice is the go to meal when I’ve been slagging off all day at work..errrm I mean slogging off and the Mrs. has a tiring day with the kids.. Like today when the kids were loaded up on all sorts of bloody chocolate eggs from easter hunts at nursery to play time around the park! It was hectic day indeed… When I got home, the usual mise en place wasn’t done! So I open the fridge and get at it…

For my recipe of fried rice, firstly you’ll need to have leftover rice! I had…

1-2 bowls of cooked rice

1 cup peeled prawns (frozen from the bag will do just fine too)

1 tbsp sesame oil

1 sliced onion

Finely sliced ginger and garlic

2-3 dried Sichuan chillies or any dried chilli will do (remember this is a no fuss meal)

1 cup of broccoli

1 cup cubed carrots

1-2 tbsp Soya sauce

1 tsp Hoisin Sauce

1 tsp Sichuan chilli oil

1 egg

Start with popping open a bottle of beer or in my case pouring a nice chilled crisp Gin Tonic topped with some mint and rosemary.. Sorry mind is wandering away, Fried rice… focus focus..

So put that drink aside and heat up the sesame oil in a wok or a deep pan basically. Add the dried chilles, ginger and garlic. Once you start smelling a bit of a char add the onions and mix it around. This is the cue for the first bang! Now add the prawns and let them turn orange (which means they’re cooked). Now add the vegetables and cook them 2-3 minutes tops. It’s always nice to keep a veg cooked but yet crispy. You got to work fast now, so add the soya sauce and hoisin and mix it all around. If need be add a drizzle of water or oil to the wok to avoid it from sticking to the pan. Bang Bang Bang add the rice in and mix it all around.

Move the rice on one side and crack an egg in the same pan and let it cook. With the high heat this is going to cook real quick. Basically scramble the egg and cook it well and start mixing it in with the rice. And that’s as easy as it sound. Fried Rice…