Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

Chicken stir fried rice combines long grain white rice, with cooked chicken, egg strips, green peas, diced white onion, diced green onion, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper.

Ingredients -

4 cups Long Grain White Rice, cooked and chilled
8 ounces Cooked Chicken, chopped
2 Large Eggs, beaten
1/2 cup Green Peas
1 medium White Onion, diced
1 Green Onion, diced
1 tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Oyster Sauce
Coarse Salt
Fresh Ground Black Pepper
Oil for stir-frying, as needed

Preparation:

1. Heat wok over medium high heat.

2. Add 1-tablespoon oil and heat to smoking point.

3. Add egg. Cook briefly on one side, turn and cook through. Remove egg from wok, cool and cut into thin strips.

4. Wipe wok clean.

5. Add 2-tablespoons oil and heat to smoking point.

6. Add onion and green peas to wok. Stir-fry until onion is translucent, about 2 minutes. Remove onion from wok and set aside.

7. Reduce heat to medium.

8. Add 3-tablespoons oil and heat to smoking point.

9. Add cooked rice and stir-fry 3 minutes.

10. Add soy sauce, salt, pepper, and oyster sauce.

11. Add chicken, onion and peas to wok. Stir-fry 2 minutes.

12. Serve fried rice hot. Garnish rice with strips of eggs and finely diced green onions.

Variations and Recipe Ideas:

Fried Rice Tips -

Long Grain White Rice

Shorter rice varieties tend to be stickier and harder to work with when stir-frying. Avoid a possible mess and use a long grain white rice when preparing Chinese style stir-fry's.

Fried Rice Tips -

Oil For Stir-Frying

While the temptation may be there to use a lot of oil, it really is not necessary with a hot wok and properly prepared and cooled rice. Use a tablespoon of rice and as it reaches its smoking point, swirl the rice around the wok bowl, before adding rice.