Easy (low-ish spoons) Ham Fried Rice
This is the easiest way I know to make fried rice and it’s not super expensive and you don’t have to chop anything!
(You can also do a more traditional spam fried rice if you need cheaper meat and can spare energy for cutting it up)
The biggest key to this recipe is making 2 cups of rice (measured uncooked) in a rice cooker or pan and chilling overnight. You need it to be chilled for the fried rice texture.
When I got home from work, I pulled all my ingredients:
-1 container of chilled rice
-1 pack of cubed ham
-1 baggie frozen peas and carrots
-soy sauce (preferably low sodium) and oyster sauce
-sesame oil/butter/cooking oil of choice
-sesame oil and sesame seeds for garnish (optional, but delicious)
Directions:
Put your ham into a large pan (that has a companion lid) with your oil or butter and brown on high heat.
When it starts popping, dump half the bag of veggies in and mix. (Save the other half of your bag for another time). Once they turn a deeper, glossy color, you can add your rice.
(This time around, I added a little water into my storage container and microwaved the dish without a lid for 1 min.)
Pour into pan and break apart any clumps.
Add your sauces—soy first, and make sure the rice is mostly saturated, then oyster, drizzled on top—and mix everything together until evenly combined.
Less is more here because you can always add more sauce, but you can’t take it back out. (Taste test to get to your preferred flavor).
Finally, pour a little water into the pan and top with your lid to steam the cold rice. You can stir this every minute or two to make sure it doesn’t burn and to check temperature.
Serve half (or your desired portion) drizzled with sesame oil and topped with sesame seeds!
Use the same storage container you cooked your rice in to store the leftover fried rice!
Congrats, you have made a delicious comfort meal with minimal dishes and less energy🤝🤝
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"Barrio Chino" Ham Fried Rice
The secret to obtaining that true and unique Asian flavor known as "Umami" in a good fried rice, is not only the ingredients that you use, but the process of cooking it.
Most big cities around the world have what is known as a Chinatown, and the Havana of the early 1900s also had its own known as "El Barrio Chino." After the two restaurants in Miami that made what I considered the best fried rice, which were called El Oriental on Southwest 8th street and 16th avenue, and Gourmet, Gourmet located on West Flagler street and 42nd avenue went out of business, I still have not been able to find any other place that makes it as good as they did so I learned to perfect my own recipe.
The meat for this one is ham, but you can do the same with shrimp, chicken, or smoked pork if you like.
I dice about two cups of hickory smoked ham, green onions and set them aside. In a non-stick wok, I make a four egg salted scramble using 1/2 cup of canola oil. Once cooked, remove from wok and set scramble aside. At this point you may add a bit more canola oil to the pan with two tablespoons of sesame oil and when it begins to smoke, add the ham and the solid white parts of the green onions to the wok along with three cups of one day old cooked long grain white rice. Sprinkle the rice with some garlic powder, 1/2 cup of soy sauce and stir continuously at high heat for about two minutes to reach your desired color and oily consistency on the rice. You may add a bit more oil or soy sauce to your satisfaction, but the rice should never end up dry or low in salt. At this point add the egg scramble along with the diced hollow parts of the green onions and stir to cook the rice for another two minutes at high heat. Bean sprouts are optional and are added during the last two minutes.
During the cooking process, instead of stirring, you may flip the rice in the wok depending on your cooking skills, enjoy!
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🇮🇹Arancini o arancine? Voi come li/le chiamate? Oggi ho voluto chiamarli arancini, in onore dei miei amici della Sicilia orientale. Non me ne vogliano invece gli amici della Sicilia occidentale.. Tanto, a prescindere dal nome o dalla forma (cilindrica, sferica o conica), una volta pronti e caldi caldi verranno divorati comunque!.. 😋😉
🇬🇧 These typical Sicilian rice balls are created and aten in all over Sicily island! It's a variety of the most famous arancini with meat sauce filling. There are various flavors and shapes. They have a different shape (cylindrical, spherical or conical), to distiguish the different tastes!I recommend you to enjoy them piping hot! Read the recipe on my website ☺️👇
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My mom asked what "intrusive thoughts" were.
I explained that they are thoughts that just kinda pop into your head that you don't normally think ex. driving and randomly thinking of crashing your car.
She then told me that that was weird and that she never had intrusive thoughts like WHAT??????
ARE THERE PEOPLE OUT HERE WHOSE BRAINS DON'T THINK UP INSANE SHIT OUT OF NO WHERE WHAT?????
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Not me over here, speed-running all the stages of grief because I made eggs on toast like my dad's, only I tried frying the eggs in chili crisp this morning, and they're Amazing, and they're better than his, and he would Love them, but he's not around anymore, so I can't cook them for him, or call him to tell him about it, and no one else in my family loves breakfast quite like he did, so no one else will be as excited about these stupid, stupid eggs as he would...
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THAT FRIED RICE LOOKS SO GOOD 😩😩😩
THANK YOU BBY!!!!
(It’s ham fried rice, so close enough hehehe)
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Pork Fried Quinoa
In this fried rice-inspired dish, quinoa excels as a rice substitute. This hearty and healthy side dish is flavorful thanks to cooked ham, bell peppers, and onions.
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