Beef Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
This is the basic recipe for beef fried rice, I cooked it last night because we have some plain rice leftovers again. I sprinkled tumeric powder to the rice to add some color.

Ingredients:
3 cups cold cooked rice
2/3 cup ground beef
1 medium onion, sliced
1/4 tsp. tumeric powder
2 tbsp. cooking oil
1/4 tsp. black pepper
2/3 tsp. salt
2 tsp. minced garlic, fried

Directions:
1. Heat oil in wok. Add onions and stir until clear.
2. Add ground beef. Stir until the beef turn brown or cooked.
3. Stir in the rice. Stir until the rice are mixed well with the meat.
4. Sprinkle tumeric powder, black pepper and salt to the rice. Stir for 3 minutes.
5. Remove from heat. Serve and top with fried garlic.

See also:
Tips on Cooking Fried Rice

Shrimp Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
It's shrimp season in Kuwait nowadays that's why most of the food we ate this month have shrimps also. My hubby is very fond of fried rice, and adding shrimp to it will make his meal perfect. Even our 2-year old son Azhfaar likes fried rice also, so LIKE FATHER LIKE SON.

Ingredients:
4 cups cold cooked rice
1 cup shrimp, peeled leaving tails on
1/2 cup mixed vegetables (corn, carrots and green peas)
1 egg beaten
1/3 cup pre-soaked chopped dried mushroom
1 meium size onion, minced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tbsp. light soy sauce
1 tsp. fish sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper powder
1 stalk of green onions, chopped
2 tbsp. cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a wok. Add and cook the egg until lightly brown. Flip to cook the opposite side. Transfer into a flat dish or chopping board, roll and cut thinly. Set aside.
2. Add the shrimp and mushrooms into the remaining oil, stir for a minute then add the garlic and onions, stir for few seconds then add the mixed vegetables.
3. Add the rice. Stir to blend well. Add the sauces.
4. Season with salt and pepper, continue stirring until the rice is heated through.
5. Turn off the heat and add the chopped green onions and the cooked egg. Stir to distribute all the ingredients evenly.

See also:
Tips on Cooking Fried Rice

Rice with Vegetables
Topic: Rice
Looks like almost the same with fried rice but it taste deliciously different!
We always have plain rice leftovers during lunch time, Donna cooked too much rice, that's why I always make a way to cook it in some other way in the evening. By the way, I only cooked dinner meals because I have no time to cook our lunch, our office time off is 3:30 pm and we took our lunch at home,we only ate snacks here in the office, hence Donna is the one in-charge in cooking our lunch. So, I always got a phone call from her daily asking me what she will cook because she don't know how to cook the menus I labeled on the chickens,seafoods and vegetables in the fridge. "What I knew here are only the fried fish, chicken adobo, grilled fish, paksiw and chicken tenola", that was her common message to me. Ooh, it seems that I talked a lot already, okay here's the recipe anyway:

Ingredients:
4 cups cooked rice
1 medium carrot, grated
10 pcs. baguio beans, thinly slice
3 pcs. dried mushrooms, soaked in water then sliced thinly
1 medium onion, sliced
1/4 tsp. ginger powder
1/4 tsp. black pepper powder
1 tbsp. soy sauce
butter cooking spray

Directions:
1. Heat the the non-stick frying pan in a medium-heat and spray the butter on the surface.
2. Add in the onions, carrots. mushrooms and beans. Add soy sauce and stir for 2 minutes.
3. Add rice stirring constantly to blend well with the vegetables.
4. Add the ginger, pepper and salt. Stir, cook for 5 minutes.
5. Remove from heat and spray the rice with butter again. Mix well.

Serve hot.

Chili Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
Here's the fried rice that lets you feel hot and sweat!


Ingredients:
4 cups cold cooked rice
5 long green pepper, sliced thinly
1 medium size onion
1/2 cup tomato paste
2 tbsp. cooking oil
1 egg beaten
salt to taste
black pepper (optional)

Directions:
1. Heat the oil in a wok. Add the egg and scramble it until the egg is all cooked. Put the egg aside or just push it aside and make some room on the bottom of the wok.
2. in the remaining oil, saute onions, then add rice and the rest of the ingredients. Keep stirring and mixing until all the ingredients are blend well with the rice.
3. Mix in the scrambled egg. Stir and sprinkle with black pepper. Serve hot.

See also:
Tips on Cooking Fried Rice

Tips on Cooking Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
I always love fried rice since I was a child. The first time I made a fried rice was when I was 13 years old and from that on, I always tried to cook different variations until now. Base on my experience, I learned some tips to achieve the perfect fried rice. Here are my techniques:

1. WOK is the best tool to fry the rice, if you don't have it, then its okay, it still manageable though tricky.

2. COLD and DRY cooked rice works well, it prevent the rice from clumping. One night old is the best. If you don't have it, then you can refrigerate the warm rice for an hour.

3. USED OIL from previously fried meat is good to fry the rice, not the dark one of course. The taste of the meat will remain on the oil, hence it will be a nice contribution to the fried rice's taste. If you don't have it, then try using butter. (note: if you want to use butter, then use ordinary pan instead of wok)

4. HIGH HEAT, always make sure that the wok is really hot before starting to cook, aside from preventing the rice to stick, it will also prevent the meat or seafoods to be juicy.

5. DON'T MASH the rice to separate the grains, it will destroy it's texture and you might break it. Use your hand to separate the grains, it will make your fried rice looks perfect.