CHINESE FRIED RICE
1/4 cup salad oil
1/4 cup chopped scallions
2 cups diced cooked ham, pork, or shrimp
2 2/3 cups Minute Rice
4 eggs, scrambled in small pieces
2 cups chicken broth
2 cans (3 oz. each) sliced mushrooms
2 cups cooked peas
2 teaspoons soy sauce
Heat oil in skillet. Saute scallions, ham, and rice in oil for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in eggs.
Bring broth, mushrooms with liquid, peas, and soy sauce to a boil. Stir into rice mixture. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Stir to mix.
TO MAKE AHEAD:
Chop all necessary ingredients and store in the refrigerator until ready to cook. Cook, drain, and chill peas. (If you use frozen peas, cook a 1-lb. package; it may measure more than what is called for, but you can use all.) Use a flameproof casserole for cooking and serve from it at the table. Or cook the rice dish in an electric skillet right in front of your guestsl
Makes 8 servings
Chicken Fried Rice
1 tb Oil
1 Egg, slightly beaten
2 tb Oil
1 c Chicken, finely diced
1 md Onion, finely diced
1/2 c Water chestnuts, finely diced
1/2 c Bamboo shoots, finely diced
1/2 c Celery, finely diced
1 c Fresh bean sprouts
1/2 c Frozen peas (opt)
1/2 c Sliced mushrooms (opt)
4 c Cooked rice
Soya sauce
Salt
Pepper
1. Cut up and prepare all ingredients. Reserve.
2. Heat wok up with 1 tablespoon oil and fry egg into a thin sheet.
Remove to plate and reserve.
3. Add 2 tablespoons more oil to wok. Heat until smoking. Stir fry
chicken and onion together until cooked. (If leftover meat is used,
just heat through.) Add bean sprouts, peas, celery. Stir and cook 2
minutes with wok covered. Uncover wok, add all the rest of the
vegetables. Stir fry and cook covered for 2 additional minutes. Add
cooked rice, season with salt, pepper, soya sauce. Reduce heat to
medium. Take your turner and break up clumps of rice as finely as
possible. Make sure rice takes up soya sauce and does not remain
white. Keep stir-frying until all rice is broken up and heated
through. Shut heat off. Cut up sheet of egg into small pieces and
stir into rice, or remove rice to serving platter and garnish with
egg slivers.
NOTE: Leftover rice makes a better fried rice. If using leftover rice,
place rice in sieve and rinse with hot water from the tap. Pork ,
beef or shrimps (cooked or uncooked) may be substituted for above
chicken.