Chicken Fried Rice

Fried rice is one of those comforting sit on the sofa dishes! Follow this recipe and you will never order chinese takeaway again!

Course Dinner

Cuisine Asian, Worldwide

Keyword Fried Rice

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings people

Calories 1298kcal

Author AnotherFoodBlogger

Cook rice as per instructions on packet *see tip*
While prepping the vegetables cook the chicken thighs in the oven for 15 minutes @ 180c.
Remove chicken from the oven and cut into bite sized pieces.
Heat pan/wok on high heat and add a tbsp of oil. Add vegetables and cook for 4 - 5 minutes. Add chicken and cook for a further 2 mins
IF, like me, you want to add an egg on top heat a frying pan on medium heat with a splash of oil, crack egg into the pan and then cover the pan. Covering the pan will cook the egg quicker and leave you with some pretty good looking egg porn. See photo above. But this step is totally optional.
Add pre-cooked rice, mix it in with vegetables and then add soy, sesame, sweet chili & fish sauce. Cooking for another 2 mins.
Once everything is combined and heated remove from heat and add 1 raw egg and stir it in to rice. Squeeze lime on top and sprinkle with coriander.
Serve and top with fried egg if you decided to increase your cholesterol intake!

I pre-cook my rice and allow it to cool. I find this helps in having individual grains when making stir fried rice. Obviously this step can be omitted and the rice can be made when you are prepping the vegetables
when pre-cooking rice it is very important to store rice in the fridge and not at room temperature or else you risk bacterial contamination. For this I cook it in the morning when feeding our daughter and then spread it thin onto a baking sheet and place it in the top shelf of my fridge to cool
if you are making fried rice regularly invest in a cheap microwave rice maker, trust me you will thank me
mise en place (aka food prep). To me this is the key in making a delicious and quick fried rice dish and probably any dish you cook really. There is nothing worse than spoiling your dinner as you dance around the kitchen (not that we frown upon dancing in anotherfoodbloggers kitchen) looking for an ingredient
when adding egg to fried rice you are looking for the egg to add a creaminess to the dish and not to end up with a lump of scrambled egg in your fried rice. To do this remove the rice from the heat before adding and stirring in the egg. Remember the residual heat from the pan/cooked ingredients will cook the egg for you