Tasty Fried Rice
Popular food among the chinese is fried rice. It is the most popular chinese cuisine among chinese people. It is commonly made with left over rice from yesterday, due to left over rice being hard and non sticky. This is good for making fried rice. It is most often served at chinese banquet right before dessert. There are many different varieties of fried rice with many different ingredients of their own. The most popular kinds of fried rice in Asia includes Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice. Chinese restaurants in United States of America has created their own type of fried rice to cater towards the non-chinese people. These are egg fried rice, Singaporean fried rice and of course the special fried rice.
The most basic form of fried rice consist of rice, eggs, green onions and some vegetables with some meat such as pork, chicken, beef or shrimp. It is popular among chinese restaurants in America, United Kingdom and even in west Africa such as Ghana and Togo, which are sold in restaurants and sold as street food.
Fried rice is most commonly cooked in a wok just like most chinese food. Vegetable oil or animal fat is added to prevent the sticking of rice to the wok. It also adds flavor. Green onion is also added to give it an extra nice flavor. You can server fried rice with other dished or it can be served on it’s own as a main course.
Often time, cold left over rice is used to make fried rice. In most fried rice recipes, they will tell you to do this. You then add oil to the wok until it becomes smoky, where then rice is added and it quickly stirred so that the heat is evenly spread and to prevent burning. Roughly 1 or 2 minutes after, the rice is added with flavour such as salt, soy sauce, fish sauce, etc. Next other ingredients are added, such as egg, onions, etc. More intense stirring until it is ready to be served.
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