FRIED RICE ALA YANG CHOW

After all the Chinese New Year goodies for many, many meals, it is time for something simple yet as appetising. This is a Chinese style fried rice using fried rice mix. It is an easy fried rice recipe like the others and as tasty and delicious as usual.

It is very versatile fried rice where you can substitute most of the ingredients like lap cheong with char siew, mixed frozen vegetables with carrots, canned green peas and green peas or French beans, button mushrooms with dried mushrooms etc.

Ingredients

[serves 2]

3 cups cooked cooled rice [from about 1 cup uncooked rice]

2 eggs – mix with dash of pepper

2-3 tbsp oil

50 gm prawns – diced

1 Chinese sausage [Lap Cheong] - diced

4 tbsp frozen peas

½ carrot – peeled and diced

1 piece 5 spice flavoured firm beancurd – cubed

2 dried mushrooms – soaked and diced

Seasoning 

1 tbsp each light soy sauce and oyster sauce

Dash of pepper

½ sachet Seri Aji Ala Yang Chow [Chinese Fried Rice Mix]

1 tsp sesame oil

Garnishing – some chopped spring onions and sambal belacan

1. Heat wok with oil, fry beancurd until lightly brown, add sausage, dried mushrooms, prawns and carrots. Fry until cooked.  Push aside, pour in the eggs and scramble lightly.
2. Add in rice and stir constantly until fragrant to combine well.
3. Add in seasoning, sesame seed oil and frozen peas, toss over high heat until well combined and rice is light.
4. Dish up to serve with sambal belacan and garnish with spring onions.
   
   
   
   
   

Tips – for best results in frying rice, use cooked rice that is cooled or preferably kept overnight and always stir ingredients well after each addition over medium to high heat.

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This post is linked to Cook and Celebrate: Chinese New Year 2016 hosted by Yen from GoodyFoodies, Diana from The Domestic Goddess Wannabe

and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids

 

FRIED RICE ALA KAMPUNG

This is another easy fried rice recipe which I prepared which is tasty and delicious as usual. Fried rice is popular and easily accepted by many especially young children or teenagers cos’ it is always that aromatic which way it is fried so long as there are eggs in it.

Here, I used the Seri Aji Kampong Style Fried Rice Mix [from Ajinomoto] as seasoning for the rice. The seasoning tasted sweet so do not omit the other seasoning ingredients. Simply easy. 

Ingredients

[serves 2]

3 cups cooked cooled rice [from about 1 cup uncooked rice]

2 eggs – mix with dash of pepper

2-3 tbsp oil

50 gm prawns – diced

50 gm chicken fillet - diced

4 tbsp frozen mixed vegetables or more

1 piece 5 spice flavoured firm beancurd - cubed

Seasoning 

1 tbsp each light soy sauce and oyster sauce

Dash of pepper

½ sachet Seri Aji Ala Kampung Fried Rice Mix]

1 tsp sesame oil

Garnishing – some chopped spring onions and red chilli

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick wok, pour in egg and scramble until almost cooked. Dish up.
2. Reheat wok with 1-2 tbsp oil, fry beancurd until lightly brown,add prawns and chicken. Fry until cooked.
3. Add in rice and stir constantly until fragrant to combine well.
4. Add in seasoning, scrambled eggs and mixed vegetables, toss over high heat until well combined and rice is light.
5. Dish up to serve, garnish with spring onions and chilli.
   
   
   
   

Tips – for best results in frying rice, use cooked rice that is cooled or preferably kept overnight and always stir ingredients well after each addition over medium to high heat.

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FRIED RICE WITH SALTED EGGS

After trying some of the fried rice recipes in my collection that turned out yummy, this is another tasty fried rice which I prepared for Sunday lunch. Compared with the earlier 2 recipes Nyonya Style Fried Rice and Thai Pineapple Fried Rice, this one has 2 more ingredients [young corn and frozen green peas] which you may obtain from leftovers after cooking other dishes or you can keep them for other fried rice recipes like Yang Chow Fried Rice or Fried Rice Ala Kampung so that these ingredients won’t be left to waste.

I find this fried rice good, it is tasty, savoury and extra fragrant with the addition of the salted eggs.

Ingredients

[serves 2]

3 cups cooked cooled rice [from about 1 cup uncooked rice]

1-2 salted eggs – steamed, shelled and diced

1 egg – mix with dash of pepper

2-3 tbsp oil

50 gm prawns – diced

2 young corns – diced [I used canned ones]

3 tbsp frozen green peas [I used canned ones]

Seasoning [combined]

1 tbsp each light soy sauce and oyster sauce

1 /4 tsp each of salt, pepper and msg [sugar]

Garnishing – some chopped spring onions and red chilli

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick wok, pour in egg and scramble until almost cooked. Dish up.
2. Reheat wok with 1-2 tbsp oil, sauté prawns and sweet corns until prawns are cooked. Add in rice and stir constantly until fragrant.
3. Add in seasoning, salted eggs and green peas, toss over high heat until well combined. Add in scrambled eggs and fry until rice is light.
4. Dish up to serve, garnish with spring onions and chilli.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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Tips – for best results in frying rice, use cooked rice that is cooled or preferably kept overnight and always stir ingredients well after each addition over medium to high heat.

THAI PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE

Fried rice is a tasty and delicious dish using cooked rice with a variety of ingredients like vegetables, meat, seafood and eggs.  It is easy to make and absolutely delicious and can be served as lunch or dinner.
This Thai version fried rice is easy to prepare and acceptable with many people.  A little spicy with the chilli flakes and extra heat comes from the small chillies.  The pineapples are soft and sweet, blends well with the savoury taste of fish sauce.

Overall, it is appetisingly good and delicious especially aromatic with the use of sesame seed oil and toasted belacan.
Ingredients

[serves 2]

3 cups cooked cooled rice [from about 1 cup uncooked rice]

2 eggs 

3 tbsp oil

1 tbsp sesame oil

75 gm chicken fillet – diced

75 gm prawns – diced

150 gm ripe pineapple - diced

1 tbsp chilli flakes or powder [add more if you like it more spicy]
1 tbsp chopped chilli padi

1 tbsp toasted shrimp paste [belacan]

Seasoning [combined]

2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp toasted belacan
1/4 tsp pepper
dash of msg
Garnishing – some chopped spring onions

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick wok, pour in eggs and scramble until almost cooked. Dish up.
2. Reheat wok with 2 tbsp oil and sesame oil, fry prawns and chicken for a minute.
3. Add in rice, chilli flakes and mix well.  Add in pineapples and toss well to combine ingredients.
4. Add in seasoning and chilli padi, cook over medium low heat and toss well to combine. Return scrambled eggs  to wok and fry until rice is light.
5. Dish up to serve, garnish with spring onions.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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NYONYA STYLE FRIED RICE

Whilst browsing through my collection of recipes, I came across several fried rice recipes. Apart from this Nyonya Style Fried Rice, there are others like Fried Rice Ala Yang Chow, Fried Rice Ala Kampong, Fried Rice With Salted Eggs, Indian Fried Rice and Thai Pineapple Fried Rice. I think I will try them all and share the recipes with all of you.

I find this fried rice good, it is tasty, spicy and extra fragrant from the sesame oil. This is a quick to cook One Dish Meal for the family especially the young if they can take spicy food. BTW, it isn’t that spicy if you reduce the chilli paste used.

Ingredients

[serves 2]

3 cups cooked cooled rice [from about 1 cup uncooked rice]

2 eggs – mix with dash of salt and pepper

3 tbsp oil

1 tsp sesame oil

75 gm chicken fillet – diced

75 gm prawns – diced

2 dried mushrooms – soaked and diced

1 -1 ½ tbsp chilli paste

1 tbsp toasted shrimp paste [belacan]

Seasoning [combined]

1 tbsp each of light soy sauce and oyster sauce

1/4 tsp each of salt, pepper, sugar and dark soy sauce

Garnishing – some chopped spring onions and red chilli

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick wok, pour in eggs and scramble until almost cooked. Dish up.
2. Reheat wok with 2 tbsp oil, sauté chilli paste and shrimp paste until aromatic. Add in chicken, prawns and mushrooms, fry for 1-2 minutes.
3. Add in rice and seasoning, cook over medium low heat and toss well to combine. Add in scrambled eggs and fry until rice is light.
4. Dish up to serve, garnish with spring onions and chilli.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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