Jamerrill's Large Family Stir Fry Fried Rice Recipe - Large Family Table (2024)

FAQs

What's the difference between stir fried rice and fried rice? ›

Fried rice is a type of stir-fry dish, but not all stir-fries involve rice. Stir-fried rice is usually a stir-fry featuring cold cooked rice plus vegetables, and possibly some chopped up proteins (like chicken or pork), and some sort of sauce ingredients.

The answer: high heat, expert tosses, and something known as 'wok hei. ' As J. Kenji López-Alt writes for Serious Eats, expert cooking with a wok (and the gas range it requires) is one of the main reasons that fried rice from a Chinese restaurant tastes so much better than what you can make at home.

Chinese fried rice tends to use a longer grain (and “drier”) rice, while Japanese fried rice uses the stickier shorter grained Calrose type rice. There are other minor differences as well – seasoning with soy sauce and garlic, and the addition of more Japanese style mix-ins like mushrooms and diced spam.

Butter: This is my secret ingredient! This is what they use at hibachi restaurants for their fried rice and has been a game changer ever since I started using it. It adds a lot more flavor and helps to brown the rice.

Soy sauce fried rice (酱油炒饭, Jiang You Chao Fan) is a classic. It is not just another fried rice. It's a signature of Chinese cooking, as it uses pretty minimal ingredients to create a wonderful flavor.

Signature flavor

There are many ways to do this, like using olive oil, canola oil or even butter to fry your rice for a great base. To give your dish that signature fried rice taste, you'll need to drizzle in sesame oil and soy sauce, but feel free to use as much or as little as you wish.

The best side dishes to serve with fried rice are chicken meatballs, chicken tikka masala, turmeric chicken, glazed salmon, Mongolian beef, beef curry, butter chicken, chicken adobo, Korean beef, roast beef, Chinese dumplings, fried egg, Thai coconut soup, chickpea, and potato curry, roasted asparagus, fish fingers, ...

Use this homemade teriyaki sauce topping over your fried rice for an extra flavor boost! Japanese natives often eat fried rice with teriyaki and a side of tempura. Tempura is often used to bulk up the meal and to add a new texture to the meal.

Lo mai fan is a traditional rice dish originating from China. It's often served as a part of dim sum meals. Chinese sticky rice, as it's also known, is made with a combination of glutinous rice, shiitake mushrooms, shrimps, soy sauce, Chinese sausage, scallions, salt, pepper, sugar, and sesame oil.

Carefully transfer the rinsed rice into the boiling pot of water. Once the water is boiling, cook for about 4-6 minutes or until the tips of a rice grain is clear. Pour the parboiled rice out into a strainer and rinse with lukewarm water to rinse off some salt and to slow the cooking process.

Should I pre cook rice for fried rice? ›

Precook the rice at least 30 minutes, but preferably one day, before making fried rice and keep it uncovered in the fridge. Place the rice into a fine sieve and wash with water to remove excess starch.

There are two types of frying: pan frying and deep frying. Fried foods are usually battered or breaded. A stir-fry is really a saute. Very little oil is used, and the ingredients are stirred or tossed almost constantly.

The usage of rice

In Fried Rice, most quick-service restaurants (QSRs) use long-grain white rice like Basmati, whereas Jasmine Rice is used in Chinese Rice. If you love rice unconditionally, you should definitely try out Fried Rice varieties (available in veg & no-veg) from Hong's Kitchen.

Stir-frying is a healthful cooking technique because you just add a small amount of fat. Some people skip the fat altogether and stir-fry in broth. I used canola oil because it's high in heart-healthy monounsaturated fat and it doesn't add a particular flavor.