Think about a situation when you wake up in the middle of the night with a grumbling stomach. Meanwhile one of your mates comes out as culinarian with Chicken Fried Rice Recipe. Isn’t surreal being served with a hot and delicious bowl of chicken fried rice?
For those who don’t know what’s this recipe all about, it is the most preferred cuisine around the world. Made up of cooked or fried rice combined with other ingredients such as veggies, eggs, or meat.
You can simply define it as a recipe prepared with leftover rice and ingredients from other dishes. It’s worth trying Asia’s common cuisine which is now served globally.
Antiquities Of The Recipe
The history of origin and invention of chicken fried rice is still vague. It revolves around some beliefs and one of them is from the era of the Sui dynasty in China. All other types of fried rice have their roots originated from Chinese fried rice.
Chicken fried rice is so prominent around the world that you can find it on every restaurant menu. The key secret behind this delicious recipe is to use rice that is previously cooked. Toss it with veggies or chicken and you’re done with the simple mouth-watering recipe.
Smart Preparation For Better Result
As mentioned, pre-cooked rice is the star of the show. This will help you to make your recipe wet as older rice doesn’t hold water in them much. You can use a day old cooked rice but for the better result, we recommend you to try it with two or three days old cooked rice.
Simply, rub the rice thoroughly with your fingers to get rid of any clumps. Long-grain is less sticky with the fluffy texture, cooking with this type of rice will make your dish more tasty and presentable.
Want To Try Without Pre-Cooked Rice?
If you don’t have cooked rice then no need to worry at all. The chicken fried rice recipe can be prepared with freshly cooked rice. All you have to do is spread the freshly cooked rice on the baking sheet and freeze them for at least 30 minutes.
The texture of cooked chicken fried rice won’t be the same as the pre-cooked rice but it will be the perfect alternative for your recipe.
Chicken Fried Rice Recipe
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker / Pot (Kadai)
- Large pan
Ingredients
For Chicken Stock
- 300 gm Chicken Pieces (with bone)
- 3 tbsp Ghee Or Oil
- 6 Black Pepper
- 1 Black Cardamom
- Small Cinnamon Stick
- 2 Bay Leave
- 1 Liter Water
- Salt To Taste
For Rice
- 1 Cup Rice
- 2 Cup Chicken Stock
For Chicken Fried Rice
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 2 tbsp Garlic (fine chopped)
- 1 tbsp Ginger (fine chopped)
- ½ Cup Onion (fine chopped)
- ½ Cup Beans (fine chopped)
- ½ Cup Capsicum (fine chopped)
- ½ Cup Carrot (fine chopped)
- ½ Cup Green Peas
- 3-4 Eggs
- Shredded Chicken Pieces (used in stock)
- Rice
- 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
- ¼ tbsp Black Pepper Powder
- Salt To Taste
- ¼ Cup Green Onion leaves (chopped)
Instructions
For Chicken Stock
- In a Pot add ghee, chicken, and saute.
- Add black pepper, black cardamom, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, salt, water, and mix.
- Now cook it on medium-high flame for 20 minutes and continuously skimming.
- After 20 minutes chicken stock is ready and now takes out the chicken pieces and shred the chicken from bone and keeps it aside because we are gonna use chicken pieces in fried rice.
For Rice
- Take rice and wash it a few times.
- Now in a pot and chicken stock, rice and cook it.
For Fried Chicken
- In a pan add oil, ginger, garlic, onion, and just quick stir fry.
- Now add beans, capsicum, carrot, green peas, and again stir it for 1-2 minutes. We don't need to cook the vegetables because we want the crunch.
- Add egg, salt, black pepper, and cook it. Now add the shredded chicken pieces and stir it.
- Now add the cooked rice, soya sauce, vinegar and toss it and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Add green onion leaves and again toss it. Now chicken fried rice is ready to serve.
Notes
- Whenever you add soya sauce to the chicken fried rice add it on the rice and not the vegetables. The vegetables should not have a dark color.
- You can add your favorite vegetables to this.
- Before adding salt taste it because we already add in chicken stock that we used for making rice.