Chicken Fried Rice

When you forget how to count and end up with way too much rice!

Equipment:

Frying pan, knife, saucepan

Ingredients:

2 eggs, whisked with

2 tablespoons milk

2 cups rice, day old

2 chicken breasts, diced into small chunks

3 bacon rashes, chopped into cm x cm squares

1 brown onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, finely minced

Pineapple, small tin, drained

1/2 cup peas

1/2 cup carrots

1 cup broccoli

3 spring onions, chopped

Extra virgin olive oil

Soy sauce

Dashi powder

Sesame oil

Method:

1. Whisk 2 eggs with 2 tablespoons of milk. Cook in frying pan with oil, you can either scramble or cook like a pancake and flip and cut into chunks

2. Cook chicken breast in oil, remove from pan, set aside

3. Cook bacon, remove from pan, set aside

4. Cook onion and garlic in oil until soft, set aside

5. Cook broccoli, carrot & peas in saucepan with water, drain, set aside

6. Add some oil to frying pan and add the rice and mix around until grains are coated. Add the rest of the cooked ingredients and mix together.

7. For the flavour, remember you can always add more but cannot take away!

8. Start with soy sauce, splash over rice mix and mix, taste

9. Add some sesame oil, it is quite strong so starting with less than a teaspoon, mix and taste

10. Add dashi powder, also quite strong in flavour start with less than a teaspoon, mix and taste

11. Add more of each flavour until you get the flavour you like

Tips:

• The rule of thumb for rice per person is 1/4 cup uncooked rice for a side dish or 1/2 cup uncooked rice for a main. As always, it’s going to depend on how hunger you are. Rice roughly doubles in size depending on which rice you use.

• You can use which ever vegetables you like or have on hand, think mushrooms, capsicum, green beans, corn or zucchini.

• For extra flavour, add chilli, ginger or fresh herbs.

• Use which ever protein you like, prawns, beef, kangaroo, turkey, pork.

• Enjoy!