Fried Rice
How to make quick-and-easy (but yummy) Fried Rice
The most important thing about a yummy fried rice, is getting the sauce right. Once you’ve mastered that part of the recipe, you can play around with the ingredients to make different versions, adding vegetables like corn, carrots and peas, or meat (bacon is always a winner!).
The basis of the recipe takes just 15 minutes.
Ingredients for the Fried Rice
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup of rice
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
3 eggs
1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine or Mirin
1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
1 tbsp Soy Sauce
Pepper and Salt
How to make the Fried Rice
Rinse the rice, then add it to a pan with water (for each cup of rice, add two cups of water).
Bring the water to a boil. Add a big pinch of salt once the water is boiling.
Maintain a simmer throughout. Ideally you should cook rice without peeking or stirring and leave the rice covered.
Once done, fluff the rice with a fork and leave to cool down. Ideally, prepare the rice a day beforehand and leave it to chill in the fridge.
Meanwhile make your fried rice sauce by mixing the Chinese cooking wine or Mirin with the oyster sauce, soy sauce and some ground pepper.
Chop the onion and finely chop the garlic too.
Sautée the onion in a wok or large pan and add the finely chopped garlic once the onion is a golden brown.
Add the cooked, cooled down rice and toss it together with the fried rice sauce.
Scramble an egg in a bowl.
Move the rice, onion and garlic / fried rice sauce mix to the side of the pan and add the scrambled egg to the wok, then mix in the rice mix.
Best served and eaten straight away!
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
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About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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