Chinese Fried Rice
March 16th, 2008 | 30-Minute Meals Recipes, Chinese, Chinese Recipes | 36 Comments
Chinese fried rice, everyone’s favorite dish needs no introduction from me.
As simple as it is, there are many versions of Chinese fried rice–plain, with chicken, shrimp, lap cheong (Chinese sausages), pork, beef, vegetables, salted fish, eggs, or combination. Regardless of the variations, Chinese fried rice always whets my appetite.
This is Hong Kong-style Chinese fried rice. I love salted fish fried rice, but I also wanted Chinese sausage (lap cheong) and baby shrimp, hence I came out with this Chinese fried rice recipe….
A good Chinese fried rice calls for overnight rice. If you don’t have it, you can cheat. The next time you have takeout or eat out at Chinese restaurants, get an extra serving of rice. Keep it in your fridge overnight, and you will have the perfect overnight rice for Chinese fried rice.
This is my Chinese fried rice recipe and now you can make Chinese fried rice at home.
Chinese Fried Rice Recipe
Ingredients:
4 cups overnight rice
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
1/8 tablespoon salt
1/4 tablespoon sweet soy sauce (ABC Kecap Manis)
3 dashes white pepper powder
1 skinless and boneless chicken breast (cut into small cubes)
1 Chinese lap cheong/sausage (diced into small pieces)
1/2 cup baby shrimp
1/2 cup green peas
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
2 eggs (light beaten)
1 small piece of salted fish (diced into small pieces)
Method:
Heat up a wok with two tablespoons of oil. Add salted fish and fry until aromatic, set aside. Using the same oil, saute the garlic until aromatic. Add in chicken, baby shrimp, Chinese sausage and peas and stir fry until they are half cooked. Season with salt and continue to stir-fry until they are 80% cooked. Add in the overnight rice and stir well with the ingredients. Add in soy sauce, fish sauce, sweet soy sauce, white pepper powder and continue to fry the rice for a couple of minutes.
Make a “well” in the middle of the wok and pour the beaten eggs in the well. Wait for 30 seconds and then cover the “egg well” with rice. Leave it for 30 seconds and continue to stir-fry the fried rice so the eggs form small pieces and mix well with the fried rice. Add in the fried salted fish and do some quick stirs, dish out and serve the Chinese fried rice hot.
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We like Chinese fried rice a lot too. Lately we added some kimchi into the fried rice, it went well too!
I grew up eating fried rice flavored with hum ha (shrimp paste). Very smelly, but VERY TASTY! Same basic ingredients – lup cheong, char siu, ham, egg, green onion, round onion, etc. Salted fish is another great choice for flavoring.
Do you have a recipe for the ‘hum ha’ ? I was married to a Cantonese born Australian Chinese and his family also made fried rice with ‘hum ha’
Many thanks
Jennifer
I like overnight rice to make fried rice too :)
I love salted fish and chicken fried rice, and so does the husband after he’s tried it last year. He always asks for it now when we go to our local Chinese restaurant :p There’s a lot of ’stuff’ in your deluxe version!
I love fried rice! I always make sure I have some leftover rice waiting for me in the fridge for a quick and delicious supper anytime of the week. Mine always includes whatever I can scrounge from the fridge/freezer. :)
chinese fried rice. u just cant go wrong w tht. ;)
Dear Madame
I just stumble upon your blog thru InterWined.com,
i am malaysian student in Italy, now doing my final year master thesis..
glad i found your blog, i have ran out of ideas on what to eat during lunch and dinner ( i prefer to cook)..
the worst i got to my craving of malaysian food was to cook a chicken curry (i made the sauce really thick and then put in some spaghetti..yummy!)
but since now i have your blog as guidance, i’ll try to cook any of the dish, given that i can find the ingredients in the market…
happy i found the blog!
Hmm.. this is one dish that I still can’t do well… Love the pic of the rice, I feel that it’s calling out to me.. haha!
Oh how I wish I could make this so it really tastes like Chinese fried rice!
It looks awesome!
loveee ham yu gai lap chao fan…recently i made fried rice with miso paste and another one with roasted eel…try try ^_^
Fried rice is so easy and so tasty. It is a great way to clean out the fridge at the end of the week.
love the dried shrimp idea. Sometimes, I add a tablespoon of sambal to stirfry the rice as well!
I’m intrigued by the fried rice with salted fish, I heard about that last year from a few fellow bloggers. Can’t wait for you to post that recipe.
Wow, rice dishes here and there. I like. Was saying in Babe’s blog…there’s sambal belacan; tom yam; kampung; pattaya; pineapple and the list goes on…love most varieties. Yours look so yummy!
Deluxe fried rice, anytime for me. I want it together with those chinese greens.
Nothing beats fried rice, well maybe deluxe fried rice! March must have been fried rice month for food bloggers, ha!
I saw spring onions in the photo but it was not listed in the ingredients.
Have some rice left over. You just gave me an Idea for dinner tonight. Hmmm..No Kiam hu wor. Pinjam? Can? Hahahah…
Hi, I always order chicken and salted fish fried rice at one of my fave chinese restaurant, I even attempted to do it once but turned out very salty, may I ask what kind of salted fish did you use?
I love chinese fried rice. Your chinese fried rice recipe is so easy to follow. thanks.
yum!!
Can imagine the taste of the fried rice … hmmm.. yummy…. oh.. it would be more tastier if eat with Korean Kimchi (which I normally do and get it from this web site
http://www.kimchi-shan.blogspot.com/
I love Chinese fried rice and I always order it at Chinese restaurants or Chinese take-outs. I like the idea of the leftover rice from Chinese restaurant and will try your Chinese fried rice recipe soon.
My mother has a Chinese fried rice recipe that I love, but your Chinese fried rice is loaded with all the good ingredients. I will try your recipe soon!
Fried rice! I love fried rice. Fried rice is the most ordered dish in Chinese restaurants, I know because I work in one. Everyone just loves fried rice be it basic fried rice or chicken fried rice or shrimp fried rice. I love fried rice with salted fish.
I tried your fried rice recipe and loved it. The salted fish adds a lot of flavors to the fried rice. What a huge difference it makes to a somewhat plain fried rice dish.
I tried your fried rice recipe and loved it. The salted fish adds a lot of flavors to the fried rice. What a huge difference it makes to a somewhat plain fried rice dish.
Couldn’t get hold of the salted fish at short notice but it still came out awsomely tasty. I just love this website, its the best foody one I’ve ever come across. The pictures say so much more than words could ever say.
I have had fried rice with salted fish at restaurants before and loved it. I asked at the Chinsese grocery and they directed me to salted Mackarel.
OOPS – sent too soon. When I opened the package it really smelled. The recipe I was using did not say anything about cooking before adding to the rice dish I was making. I am afraid the smell turned my family off to the dish. Did I use the wront type? Or does cooking it first help. I cut in small pieces but think perhaps they should have been smaller.
Hi Marilyn,
You should cut the salted fish to very tiny pieces and also deep fry them before adding to the fried rice.
Thanks for the recipe! we tried and we like it so much :)
Haha, now I know what I should make myself for lunch. Fried rice! :)
What is overnight rice?? You mean soak overnight or something? Please explain. Thanks!
Overnight rice means leftover right that is kept in the fridge overnight.