Easy Egg Fried Rice
This is a go-to meal when you have leftover rice sitting in the fridge. The key is using day-old rice since fresh rice has too much moisture and won’t fry properly – it’ll just get mushy.
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Ingredients
Ingredients (~3 servings)
- 3 cups cooked jasmine rice cold & day-old
- 1 green onion finely chopped
- 1/4 cup regular soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 6 large eggs beaten
- 3 Tbsp vegetable oil or any neutral oil
Instructions
- Heat a large pan or wok over high heat with 2 Tbsp vegetable oil until hot or lightly smoking.
- Pour in beaten eggs and stir-fry until just set but still moist.
- Add cold rice and break apart any clumps while stirring until heated through.
- Push rice to the side and add remaining 1 Tbsp oil to the empty space.
- Add chopped green onion and stir for 30 seconds until fragrant.
- Mix green onions back into the rice and eggs.
- Pour soy sauce and sesame oil along the pan edges and toss everything until rice is evenly coated and brown.
- Serve hot.
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