Vegetable fried rice
Up: 🍳Home cooking
Ingredients
- 150 g (6 oz) jasmine rice
- 3 eggs
- 3 spring onions
- handful of frozen peas
- 1 carrot
- 1/2 red pepper (optional, not recommended if too watery)
- 2 mushrooms
- handful of roasted cashews
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 piece of ginger
- chilli flakes
- soy sauce
- groundnut oil
- sesame oil to drizzle
Method
- Make Boiled rice and preferably refrigerate overnight.
- Prepare all the vegetables in advance, removing skins from garlic and ginger, grating or cutting the carrot into thin 5-sided slices, chopping the spring onions, pepper and mushrooms.
- Make a three-egg omelette in groundnut oil and keep aside, chopped into small pieces.
- Increase heat to your wok.
- Fry spring onions in groundnut oil and cook, adding chilli flakes.
- Grate garlic and ginger into wok and cook.
- Add frozen peas and carrot and cook.
- Add pepper and cook.
- Add mushrooms and cook.
- Add soy sauce and sizzle for a few seconds.
- Add cold pre-cooked rice and cook, coating grains carefully with oil.
- Add egg back in, and cashew nuts.
- At the last moment, drizzle a little sesame oil and flip everything a few times before serving.
Tip
Stir fries work best at a very hot temperature, heating a small amount of food at a time, thinly cut so it cooks quickly. Vegetables with a high water content should ideally be avoided as these can cool down your wok.