Fried Rice
Serves 4 persons Time 20 minutes Difficulty 2/5 Ingredients 25 Steps 10
Fried rice is a simple dish that is easily modified and can be prepared in as little as five minutes. You may choose which ingredients to use and how much to use. Ingredients can be substituted and leftovers work great!
Ingredients
- Cooked rice (leftover rice that has been left refrigerated works well)
- Soy sauce
- Oil
- Peas
- Bean sprouts
- Bok choy
- Kidney beans
- Mushroom
- Carrot
- Sweet corn
- Fried tofu
- Egg
- Aromatics (e.g. onion, shallot, scallion, garlic)
Spices
- Black pepper
- Sugar
- Salt
- Chilli pepper
- Fried rice spice
Meat (optional)
- Chicken
- Char siu (Chinese barbecue pork)
- Marinated beef
- Pork
- Seafood (add curry powder for curry flavor)
- Prawns
- Shrimps
Steps
Prepare ingredients
- If using tofu, cook it.
- If using onions, dice.
- If using bok choy, separate stalk from leaf. Slice leaf crosswise into ¾-inch-thick strips, then tear into 2-inch pieces. Treat leaf like bean sprouts, with slightly more cooking; treat stalk as celery.
- If using bean sprouts, wash and discard any that are not white and crunchy.
- If using meat, slice into pieces and cook.
Cooking
- Add a generous amount of oil to a large frying pan to avoid sticking. Use less for sausage or other very fatty meat.
- Add rice. Cook on medium-high heat.
- Add soy sauce, meat(s), eggs and all vegetables except onions and bean sprouts.
- Add pepper, a pinch or two of sugar, and optional salt.
- Add tofu, bean sprouts and onion when rice is almost done. Do not overcook them.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Fried Rice” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2025-07-13, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Changes. Steps rewritten into short commands. Introduction shortened. Wiki formatting removed. This adapted recipe is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo. Fried rice by Adonis Chen in Keelung, Taiwan.jpg by Adonis Chen from Keelung, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia. Resized; otherwise unchanged.