A simple basic fried rice can be a side dish in minutes and taste better than any restaurant-style!
This rice recipe can be left plain or with added seafood, meats, and vegetables to this to make a tasty one-pan meal.
Our favorite is with added shrimp or scallops, we are big seafood lovers here.
It tastes great with just a mixture of peas and carrots and also you can add any boneless meats.
I love a little Asian food now and then like my Slow Cooker Asian and Broccoli and don't miss trying my Homemade Egg Roll Recipe!
The recipe is so darn easy you are going to be making this often I promise.
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If you love fried rice
I have had fried rice everywhere.
It doesn't have to be a complicated recipe. This one is super easy.
It can have everything and anything you love in it and super easy to make.
Suggestions and Additions
- You can add sliced mushrooms, and shredded vegetables like zucchini, onions, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, or anything else you like.
- I have two versions one with chicken and shrimp below and the other is leftover pork roast.
- Whatever you have leftover in meats or steak goes great with this rice.
- When taking to potlucks I leave it plain and let them add what they want off the grill.
- Leftover Shrimp or any seafood
- Leftover steak
- Leftover chicken
- Leftover pork roast
- Leftover venison
- corn
- peas
- carrots
- mixed vegetable
- s broccoli florets or cauliflower
- snow peas
- green beans
- peppers
- mushrooms
Ingredients You Will Need
- instant rice cooked and drained or steamed regular rice cooked
- leftover cooked and cubes of meats, chicken, beef or add seafood like shrimp or a combination
- soy sauce
- water
- granulated garlic
- butter
- frozen cubed peas and carrots mix or any vegetables you like
- egg
Great for Picnics!
This is a great picnic food or stir-fried side dish.
You can also make it an entire meal when adding several types of meat as a combination.
We also love this with chicken skewers off the grill or grilled meats.
Rice Suggestions
- Steamed Cooked Long Grain Rice
- Instant Brown or White Rice cooked to package instructions
- Boil in Bag rice cooked to package suggestions
- Substitute Riced Cauliflower for all vegetarian style
Meat Options
- sauteed shrimp, lobster, crab or any seafood IE: salmon, white fish
- sauteed steak
- sauteed chicken
- sauteed pork roast
- sauteed venison
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Pin for Later Easy Basic Stir-Fried Rice
Easy Fried Rice Meals
This rice dish goes a long way to feed a large family and you can add just about anything to it your family like meat wise or vegetable.
Sauteed chicken, mini burgers, lamb, venison, pork are just a few we love to mix into our rice.
Sometimes artichoke hearts, asparagus and diced tomatoes are another medley we like to add to our rice along with chicken, scallops,shrimp.
Anything you add will be a tasty meal in one pan, so get creative and adapt away to your favorite fried rice recipe, and don't forget this recipe is a great way to repurpose leftovers from another meal.
Easy Meat or Seafood Stir Fried Rice
Yield: 8
prep time: 10 Mcook time: 25 Mtotal time: 35 M
This is a copycat of fried rice you would find in a Chinese restaurant, you can add whatever meats and vegetables you want, but this is delicious quick rice you will make time and time again it's just so easy!
ingredients:
- 3 cups instant rice cooked and drained or steamed regular rice cooked
- 2 cups leftover cooked and cubed meats, chicken, beef or add seafood like shrimp or a combination
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 cup frozen cubed peas and carrots mix
- Optional: any other pre-cooked vegetables, or fresh, zucchini, broccoli, shredded cabbage, snow peas or other vegetables you like
instructions:
How to cook Easy Basic Stir-Fried Rice
- If you are using raw meat, saute it first in olive oil and garlic or granulated garlic, adding around 3 tablespoons of soy sauce set aside when cooked.
- In a large fry pan melt butter. Add garlic and egg stir fry until completely cooked.
- Add rice saute until rice is browned around 10 minutes or more flipping rice to brown on both sides.
- Add the meat, and any vegetables using the mixture.
- Continue to cook until rice till soft and everything is heated and cooked how you prefer. Remove from heat.
- Mix the soy sauce and water together add to the pan and stir.
- Note: Any vegetables I used are pre-steamed and just folded in. Most of the time I use leftover cooked meats. Add more water if it gets dry, soy is too salty.
Calories
197
197
Fat (grams)
11
11
Sat. Fat (grams)
9
9
Carbs (grams)
18
18
Fiber (grams)
22
22
Net carbs
18
18
Sugar (grams)
4
4
Leftover Pork Fried Rice Pin for later
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