Sunday, May 6, 2012

Making the Perfect Thai Fried Rice

Fried rice is one of the most common foods in Asia, and it is so simple to make. On every street corner in Thailand, you find food stalls, offering plates of fried rice. There are a few varieties of fried rice, and Thai fried rice goes in a much different direction.

In Thailand, fried rice serves as a lunch dish, and it is often served with cucumber and a wedge of lime on the side.

The most popular fried rice is crab fried rice. Cooking fried rice is also a great way to clean leftovers from your refrigerator since any vegetables and meats you have in your fridge will do.

For meats, you can use just about everything - bacon, crab, chicken, ham, tofu - you name it. Any vegetables will do very well too.

The Perfect Thai Chow Fun ( Fried Rice Recipe )

3 c Cooked Rice

3 Bacon Strips

3 Slightly Beaten Eggs

1-1/4 c Meat, Finely Diced

2 Green Onion, Finely Chopped

1/2 lb Bean Sprouts (Optional)

6 Mushrooms, Sliced

Salt

1 ds Black Pepper

2 tb Soy Sauce

Preparation

Cook the bacon until it is lightly browned but not crunchy and set aside.

Add the beaten eggs to the bacon drippings and scramble.

Remove and chop very fine.

Add the cooked rice and fry for approximately 5 minutes stirring constantly.

Add the remaining ingredients, and mix well and continue cooking for 10 minutes longer.

Serve.

You can also use your favorite meats; pork, chicken, ham, beef, or shrimp, or experiment with whatever tastes good to you.

Enjoy!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Turn Your Left Over Rice Into Tasty Chinese Fried Rice

Turn your leftover white rice into the best fried rice you ever had! Fried rice is one of my favorite Chinese dishes. Shrimp, beef or chicken, I love them all. When I go out for Chinese food, I always take all of the leftover white rice back home for making fried rice that lasts me several days.

It's simple to make, but you must have the right ingredients to make it taste like you bought it at your favorite Chinese restaurant. Here's what you need:

2 - 4 cups of cooked leftover white rice
1 - 2 eggs
2 - 3 garlic cloves chopped
2 - 4 tablespoons of Kikkoman Soy Sauce
2 - 3 teaspoons of Sesame oil
1 - package of frozen peas (optional peas & carrots)
3 - tablespoons of Peanut oil or Olive oil ( I always use olive oil because it is healthier but peanut oil is preferred in Chinese cooking because of its high burning temperature.)

A hand full of chopped fresh shrimp, chicken or beef chopped

This first step took me a long time to learn, but it is the most important part of the entire recipe. Beat your eggs as if you were going to make scramble eggs.

I use an old wok that I got at a garage sale but you can use any good frying pan. Place 1 tablespoon of oil into your pan and heat the pan to high. Before the oil starts to smoke throw in your eggs and beat until they are over cooked and start breaking apart into smaller pieces. Remove your eggs from the wok and place them into a container for later.

Now add 1-2 tablespoons of oil and ½ the chopped garlic. Everything should happen fast if you have your heat on high so be fast. Throw your shrimp or meat in the wok and stir fry for a few minutes until cooked and then remove from the wok and place into the container with the eggs.

Now add the rest of the oil and 1-2 teaspoons of sesame oil. Add all the remaining chopped garlic and a handful of frozen green peas. Stir fry for a minute then add the white rice and stir fry for another few minutes. Add all the ingredients that you put aside in the container and start putting in soy sauce as you continue to stir fry.

Taste it as you go along and you may want to add more soy sauce or sesame oil. Enjoy!

I spent two years in Japan and loved the way they served and presented fried rice to you in a restaurant. Here is this presentation trick I learned while in Japan.

Get a nice shaped Chinese or Japanese soup bowl and pack down your fried rice in a bowl. Place a flat serving dish on top of the bowl and now place your hand on top of the flat dish while turning the dish upside down. Put into the microwave for a few minutes with the bowl still on the rice.

When you take the fried rice out of the microwave remove the bowl and you have a nice shaped mound of fried rice ready to be served.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Tips and Techniques for Stir-Fried Rice

Many people that enjoy fried rice at Chinese restaurants are afraid to try to cook the dish at home. Using a wok is a foreign experience for many Americans, and they are simply unsure how to begin. While it does take a certain amount of technique to create a perfect fried rice dish at home, there are a few tips to ensure the dish comes out fluffy, light and full of flavor every time.

Rice is, of course, the main ingredient of fried rice, and therefore it should be picked and prepared with care. Use only long-grain rice in the dish as shorter grains have a higher concentration of amylose, which will create a sticky and soggy end product. Aromatic rices such as Basmati or Jasmine are also of the long-grain variety and can produce a sweet, aromatic dish. The rice should be steamed or boiled two to three days before making the stir-fry and stored in the refrigerator to allow enough drying time. For instances when waiting days is not an option, rice can be cooked, spread out across a baking sheet, and placed in the freezer for 25-30 minutes to speed up the drying time. The rice will produce a slightly different consistency, but will be better than using freshly cooked rice.

Measure and cut all ingredients before heating the wok so they will be at hand's reach when the rapid stir-frying begins. Some people prefer to cook each component separately to maintain each ingredient's individual flavor and then mix them together in the wok just before serving. Others toss all the ingredients into the wok to cook at the same time. When using the latter method, it is important to make sure the vegetables are cut around the same size so they will take approximately the same amount of time to heat.

The wok should be pre-heated before adding the cooking oil. Some recipes call for a medium heat while others call for higher temperatures; always set the temperature as per the recipe instructions. For best results, use an oil that has a high smoke point, like canola, grapeseed or peanut oil. Stir-frying garlic, scallions or onions in the pan before adding other ingredients will season the wok for added flavor.

The important thing to remember when stir-frying is to keep the food moving. Vegetables, meat and rice should be tossed and stirred constantly to prevent sticking or overcooking in the hot oil. Soy sauce or oyster sauce can be drizzled in for color and extra flavor, but should only be done at the end of heating time to prevent burning. Following these simple techniques can help any cook create savory, delectable stir-fried rice dishes at home.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Chinese fried rice-how to make fried rice

Chinese fried rice is one of the most popular dishes is the output of Chinese restaurants and many people wonder how to get a great flavor and texture of this dish amazing. If you enjoy making fried recipes like Southern fried chicken recipe or chicken fried steak, you will enjoy making this tasty Chinese dish. Fried rice is very simple to make a perfect accompaniment to any meat or fish or Chinese chicken dish.

This recipe is a great way to combine leftovers. Use leftover means that there are endless possibilities if you want to make something really yummy and different countries have special versions of this dish. Indonesian fried rice differs from Thai style dish, for example.

Cooking tips for this delicious dish

Use steamed or boiled white rice to make this dish. The key to good use chilled rice dish. If you use freshly cooked, not taste authentic or be a good article. Scary from the overnight moisture get rid of excess static and therefore makes the grain is easy to detach. Cooking with grain new means you will get mushy results. If you do not have full day, sure it can be cool for a few hours of a cool place before use.

And k may be very hot so soy sauce flavor dish gives, instead make it soggy. Also, the oil layer will dance around in a hot nonstick coating and create. If not, and your hot enough, the content will stick to it.

You can use any leftovers you want in this recipe. What about some leftover bacon or ham breakfast, cut some chicken dinner yesterday or some of the remaining Islands? Do not use anything wet or in sauce, another dish go mushy. Garlic, ginger and salt sisonings good and you can also add some chili powder spice dish.

Recipe-step by step

You can modify this basic fried rice recipe, as you want. If you are going to add more items, you must use three eggs instead of two. This recipe serves four to six people side dish. Feel free to add chili powder, ginger, garlic, or anything else you fancy.

What you will need:

4 cups cold cooked rice 1 finely chopped green onion 4 tablespoons cooking oil 2 tablespoons oyster sauce or soy sauce Salt and pepper, to taste 2 eggs

How to make it:

Beat eggs with salt and pepper. Heat half the oil, then add the eggs. Cook, stirring all the time, so quick but still moist. Egg output and erase the pan with paper towels.

Add remaining oil and rice in stir fry for a few minutes. Using a wooden spoon or pair of chopsticks to raise grain and separated. Stir in oyster sauce, soy sauce, then add eggs again in the pan. Blend well and stir in green onions. Adjust the sisonings and serve hot.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Delicious and easy Chinese fried rice recipe-only five components

This recipe looks delicious and easy fried rice Chinese serves up to four adults. After preparation and cooling rice early, this dish could be ready to serve in about 30 minutes, with about 15 minutes of prep time and 15 remaining cooking.

Stir in chicken, cooked and chopped, beef or pork or shrimp to convert this recipe easy Chinese fried rice for a full meal. Served with spring rolls, egg rolls or pot stickers for additional special treatment wontons. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

4 cups cool cooked jasmine rice

1 cup cooked frozen peas and carrots (or 1 to 2 green onions chopped finely)

4 tablespoons peanut oil

3 large eggs

3 tablespoons hoisin or oyster sauce

Preparation:

1. Cook peas and carrots according to a set of directions. Salt and pepper to taste.

2. Beat eggs in a small bowl.

3. Add oil to your pan or under medium heat for large. When oil is hot, add the rice and stir fry for a few minutes with a wooden spoon.

4. While alloys frying, separate parts of the rice into smaller parts.

5. rice moves to one side and wok or pan. Scramble eggs until cooked.

6. stir egg mixture into rice. Stir in frozen peas and carrots or onions.

7. pour sauce over rice mixture. Mix flour and stir fry for a few more minutes. Serve hot.

Tips:

You can replace the enriched white rice for jasmine, jasmine rice, but taste good and smell normal fabric that will never match the old white rice. At home, we use rice jasmine rice dishes in all our work. It is available in most grocery stores, as well as in Indian and Thai markets. It's a bit more expensive than regular rice of the same quantity, but taste best certainly makes higher costs.

When stirfriing Chinese fried rice with peanut oil, avoid heat oil to high temperatures. When heated to the point of smoke, can cause peanut foods taste bitter.

As an alternative, less costly for peanut oil, you can add about 1 tsp of sesame oil regular flavor hot vegetable oil. When heated with itself, and sesame oil has a very intense taste for use as oil sterfri. But small amounts advanced to improve the flavor of rice.

You can also move the FRY with wooden spoon, scrape the rice from the bottom of the Pan or to avoid sticking and burning.

Oyster sauce thick and salty, with a small amount of oyster extract to improve the flavor of foods. Hoisin sauce are also thick and salty, but the sweetness in its flavor. It often uses the spring rolls dipping sauce and other delicacies. If you want to make a reform this recipe Chinese fried rice, use low sodium soy sauce instead of this sauce.

This easy recipe is extremely flexible and tolerant. If you want to stir fry over rice cold cooked egg scramble and excitement in every cup of rice further added. Stir in additional sauce to taste, being careful not to make the rice very salty.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Easy Rice Recipes - Rice Becomes Luxurious

Easy rice recipes are always welcome to make any meal more substantial. In South Africa, where I live, it is a vital part of any of our main meals, it is almost a staple. For us a meal starts with rice, meat and potatoes and then the rest follows. So, for us easy rice recipes are a very important part of our recipe collections. Here I have a few very tasty ones for you to try.

The first one is a very tasty and easy one suitable for the birds. You can serve it with chicken, duck and turkey. Do not substitute oil for the butter; it will not taste as good. In South African cooking we use a lot of butter and you cannot use oil in its place, well you can, but it will not be as tasty.

Rice With Almonds And Raisins

Ingredients:
½ cup raisins ½ cup blanched almonds 2 ½ cups water 1 ½ Tsp. butter 1 ½ cups rice 1 ½ tsp. salt
Method:
Cover raisins with water and almonds with milk for 5 hours. Put water, salt and butter in tightly closed pot and boil. When boiling, add rice and cook gently for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Cover open pot with towel and let stand for 5 minutes. Add raisins and almonds. Delicious - can be served with chicken and any vegetables of your choice.
Here's A Spanish One Who does not love Spanish? Here is a very easy one.

Ingredients:
Cook 1 cup of rice 1 large onion (cut-up) 3 oz. butter or oil 3 large tomatoes (skinned and cut-up) 1 large green pepper (cut into thin slices) Chopped parsley 3 Tsp. tomato sauce Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Fry onion in butter or oil until golden brown - add tomatoes, green pepper, salt, pepper, parsley and tomato sauce. Mix together with rice.

Delicious served with beef and salads.

And what about Chinese?

As far as this recipe goes, it can really be served with anything. As far as I know there are very few meat dishes that will not be improved by the flavor of this dish.

Ingredients:
1 cup rice ½ cup chopped mushrooms ½ cup chopped celery ¼ cup chopped onion 2 cups boiling water 3 Tsp. chopped green peppers 1Tsp. butter 1 chicken cube (dissolved in the boiling water) Salt 1 cup cubed cooked chicken
Method:
Fry onion, green pepper and celery in butter or chicken fat. Add rice, then chicken stock. When rice is cooked add chopped mushrooms. Simmer for 20 minutes then add chicken cubes and heat through.
Parsley Rice Moulds

Even though this one is a slightly more "fancy" it is still easy and tasty. Except for the mixed spice the tastes are very neutral and it will compliment any dish.

Ingredients:
1 cup cooked rice ¼ cup milk ½ tsp. grated onion ½ tsp mixed spice !/3 cup mayonnaise 2 Tsp. chopped parsley ¾ tsp. salt Dash of pepper
Method:
Mix all ingredients together. Pack into greased moulds. Bake in pan of water at 400° F. for 15-20 minutes.
Now A Baked Pineapple One

Wow, this is a little sweet one! Once again this is one for the birds, chicken, duck or turkey.

Ingredients:
1½ cups rice 2 cups water ½ cup pineapple juice 2 tsp. salt 1 cup drained, crushed pineapple ½ cup brown sugar 3 Tsp. butter 2 tsp grated lemon rind Dash of lemon juice ¼ tsp grated nutmeg
Method:
Combine rice, water, pineapple juice and salt and cook till it is tender and flaky and liquid absorbed. Pass remaining ingredients and stir lightly with a fork. Turn into buttered quart casserole and bake in preheated oven at 350° F for 15-20 minutes

Excellent with roast duck or chicken. Also good with chicken and mushroom casserole.

With these easy rice recipes at hand you will never be at a loss for a suitable companion for your meat or fish dishes. I hope you enjoy them as much as my family does.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Chinese fried rice recipe for a healthier diet

Is a good way to serve vegetables to your family this Chinese fried rice recipe. Fruits and vegetables contain essential vitamins, minerals and fibre for the prevention of many chronic diseases. Chinese fried rice recipe is shown below uses a variety of vegetables. Try this to anyone except eat veggies any other way.

Chinese fried rice recipe:

What you will need:

1 16-oz. A mixed bag of frozen vegetables or frozen peas and carrots
1 cup of frozen onion and vegetables sterfri peppers
1 Pack 8.8 ounces of cooked brown rice
4 tablespoon of olive or canola oil, divided
2-3 eggs
4 tbsp sterfri sauce. store bought is fine, preferably with low sodium
Lime wedges
Crushed red pepper (if desired)

Method:

Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil or canola or non-stick skillet over medium heat. Whisk eggs and add to oil. Make egg scramble to raise sometimes even group. Remove from pan and set aside. Increase heat to medium high and add the remaining 2 tbsp of oil to the pan. Stir fry all vegetables frozen and cook for about five minutes or until tender. Don't forget never cooked vegetables to prevent loss of nutrients.

Add stir fry sauce and if you want also crushed pepper. Add the cooked brown rice and egg scrambles. Heat through. Finally pressed lime juice to give these Chinese fried rice recipe extra flavor. This recipe is good if you have left over rice and chicken. Or you can add tofu and ignore the egg and make this recipe vegetarian Chinese fried rice. You can add shrimp mature this and make it as Chinese fried rice cuisine freely. Note: use brown rice and white rice but will work just fine.

Try brown rice instead of white rice in other recipes and see if your family will like it.

Always packs of frozen vegetables westerfri in your fridge. These can be used to make many other sterfri healthy dinner along with this Chinese fried rice recipe.

Tips for healthy eating a variety of balance and moderation.

-Service of grains and fruits and vegetables. Look for recipes that incorporate these health determinants.

-Balance between overtime your diet. If you miss one day food group, make up for it the next day.

-Keep your portion sizes reasonable. "Food pyramid" a good source for information on recommended serving sizes.

-Gradual changes to your diet.

Remember to exercise and eat a healthy low sodium and balance daily diet for the prevention of diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, Stoke and diabetes. Also beware of sodium in the diet of children in these days.