Easy Fried Rice

This "Easy Fried Rice" recipe is a great side dish to serve when you are having some Chinese food, a recipe that the whole family will love. With so many varieties of rice form short grain, long grain, white rice, brown rice, wild rice and red rice there are so many rice recipes to try.

This easy fried rice recipe is a great recipe to try and it is suggested that you use day old rice, that can be cooked in the morning or night before and refrigerated, if you are not able to cook beforehand it will still taste great. Some of the ingredients you will need for this easy fried rice recipe include cooked rice, sesame oil, chopped small white onion, thawed frozen peas and carrots, soy sauce, eggs lightly beaten and chopped green onions. To start preheat a large skillet or wok to medium heat and pour some sesame oil into the bottom of the skillet or wok. Next add some white onion and peas and carrots and fry until tender. Put the onion, peas and carrots to the side and pour the beaten eggs onto the other side. Then using a spatula scramble the eggs, then once the eggs are cooked mix with the vegetable mix. There is just something about fried rice that we can't get enough of, the combination of rice, soy sauce and vegetables is always a welcome addition to any table.

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When it comes to rice there are so many recipes that you can use it in. If you were to look at a list of rice dishes from around the world, you would find recipes like; Akki roti, also known as rice bread, a rice-based breakfast item unique to the state of Karnataka, India; American fried rice from Thailand ironically, this is a dish from Thai cuisine where the rice is fried with tomato ketchup and raisins; Arroz caldo from the Philippines, is a thin rice porridge cooked with chicken, ginger, onions and garnished with spring onions and calamansi; Chimichanga, this rice recipe is from Mexico and parts of the southern United States This is a deep fried burrito most typically made with rice, cheese, machaca, carne adobada, or shredded chicken, and folding it into a rectangular package, and deep frying; Carri-poulet, rice, with chicken or beef, tomatoes, chili and curry; Chitranna is a rice recipe from India, a rice preparation made by sauting groundnut, sesame seeds, red chili and turmeric in oil and adding it to cooked rice and mixing; Ci fan tuan is a rice recipe from Taiwan that is prepared by tightly wrapping a piece of fried dough with glutinous rice.