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Quick & Easy Chinese Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

Quick & Easy Chinese Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

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This Chinese Chicken Fried Rice recipe is a quick and easy dish packed with savory flavors. Juicy chicken, eggs, peas, carrots, garlic, and shallots combine with fluffy jasmine rice for a satisfying meal ready in just 30 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 4 ½ cups cooked jasmine rice, day-old
  • ½ lb skinless boneless chicken thighs, thinly sliced
  • 1 shallot, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • ¾ cup carrot, finely diced
  • ½ cup peas, frozen
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • 4 teaspoons vegetable oil or any neutral-tasting oil
  • Chicken marinade:
    • 1 teaspoon regular soy sauce
    • 1 teaspoon Shaoxing Cooking Wine or Dry Sherry Wine
    • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
    • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
  • Sauce:
    • 2 tablespoons regular soy sauce
    • ½ tablespoon dark soy sauce
    • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
    • 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder
    • ⅛ teaspoon white pepper or black pepper

Instructions

  1. Marinate the chicken: Combine chicken marinade ingredients, marinate chicken for 5 minutes.
  2. Prepare the sauce: Mix all sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
  3. Cook the chicken: Fry marinated chicken in hot oil until fully cooked. Set aside.
  4. Sauté aromatics: In the same wok, cook garlic and shallots, then add peas and carrots.
  5. Scramble eggs: Push veggies to the side, add eggs, scramble, then mix with veggies.
  6. Combine ingredients: Add rice, toss with ingredients, then add chicken back in.
  7. Flavor with sauce: Pour sauce around the edges of the wok, mix until rice is browned.
  8. Serve: Remove from heat and enjoy!

Notes

  • This recipe uses 1 ½ measuring cups of UNCOOKED jasmine rice made the night before and refrigerated.
  • If cooking rice on a stovetop, rinse rice, add water (using the knuckle method), boil, then simmer for 17-20 minutes until fluffy.

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