Monday, September 3, 2012

Fried Rice, made by a white man, for a white man





Fried rice, yummy yummy yummy.  This recipe is the best way to get rid of leftover meats in your fridge.  I'm using chicken for this, but you can put anything in here.  Yup, I make this after thanksgiving too, Turkey fried rice is the bomb.  (do people still say the bomb?)


Anyways, to make this, you need the following ingredients
Basically, rice, onion, meat, egg, vegetable, oil, teriyaki sauce, sesame seeds.

For this round, I'm using leftover unflavored chicken wings from last night.  De bone, Rip/chop up the meat to make it smallish and awesome looking.  I'm not big with measurements and all that, so have a bowl or so, small as you like it.  This is not a cake, do what you want.  More makes it meatier, less means it's more Vegan, whatever(I know it's not vegan, but didn't feel like looking up how to spell vegetarian.)  Throw some oil in your wok(or pan or whatever, I have a wok, wedding present.  If you don't have one, get married.  If you're married and don't 'have one, renew your vows.  Or buy one, or live without, whatever).  Turn heat on high(guys always cook on high heat) and when oil is hot, toss in the chicken. 

Add some teriyaki sauce, couple squirts.  I use Lawry's Teriyaki Marinade, cause it's sweet, and sweet makes me happy in fried rice.  If you prefer boring tastes, you can get a more authentic sauce for a more authentic taste, but since I'm using chicken wing meat leftover from watching a football game last night, I'm not going to pretend that I'm authentic. 
Now you know what it looks like
Stir this occasionally, your heating it up and adding flavor, no biggie.  When you get bored, dice up a large onion.  I do small chunks, but you can do strips if you're feeling like it, whatever works

You will need exactly 4/5's of a bowl with a blue inside for this part(just kidding, I use a large onion, me loves onions, do what you want).  When that's done, if the chicken is all sizzly and awesome smelling, chuck the onions in. 
Add more sauce, add more stirring, enjoy the sizzle, smell the goodness coming forth.  We're waiting for the onions to mostly cook, so stir when needed, but other then that, just chill.  Dance to a song with your kid.  If you must do something productive, we ARE going to need some tiny omelette's for later.  You can make that now if you want.  Chuck some oil in a non stick pan, heat it up, crack an egg in a bowl, stir it up, toss it in when they oil is hot.  You know how to make an omelet, right?  All about patience, or keeping yourself distracted.  Anyways, make some one egg omelette's.  I do three, but again, do what you do. 

I didn't use a non stick cause I'm making some pot stickers later, and didnt' want to dirty extra pans

When the onions are mostly cooked, toss in your rice.  They always say to use cold rice that you have cooked in the fridge.  Who has cold rice sitting in their fridge?  I guess you could make it earlier in the day, but that's probably never going to happen with me, so I just make it right before I start cooking, so it's ready when I am. 

Rice cookers are awesome.  Get married, there are benefits.


I cooked 2 cups of rice with 2.5 cups of water to make my rice, whatever measurement that makes.  Chuck it in the pan, sizzle and stir



Add more sauce, add some sesame seeds.   Most stores have sesame seeds these days, go go get some, it makes a difference.  Stir and add more sauce and seeds as you want.  When the sauce has some time to get in the rice(~30 seconds) add your vegetables.  Whatever frozen bag of crap mixed veggies you want.  I'm using frozen stew vegetables cause having okra and lima beans in my fried rice makes me giggle.  Mix it up and wait for the veggies to warm up.  Did I mention that you might have to turn down the heat to keep the rice from sticking?  Um, you might have to turn down the heat to keep the rice from sticking.  Remember, Martha Stewart isn't watching you, it's your kitchen, control that shit.  Anyways, where were we?  Oh yeah, veggies and, stir that shit.  When the veggies heat up, chop your egg into squares or strips or whatever, and add it in.  Stir.  Taste.  Add more sauce or seeds if you need it.  This makes enough for two adults and a two year old to have dinner, two lunches, and some left to pour out for our homies when we're sick of eating fried rice.  Enjoy!