Basic Golden Fried Rice (黄金炒饭）

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INTRODUCTION

Every time when I posted my fried rice, members of Facebook Groups and friends will ask why my rice is grainy and evenly coated with eggs and that reminded them of the famous Chenfuji fried rice in Singapore. This Singapore restaurant is famous for its crab meat egg coated fried rice and that prompted me wanted to share my fried rice techniques with readers.

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Fried rice is not difficult at all but there are some simple pointers of stir  frying rice and I hoped that via these simple pointers, readers can come out with his or her favourable version of fried rice. The pictures below depicts the difference between golden fried rice and white rice.

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Fried rice is very common among Asians since rice is a staple food. I  believed that it is so common that most will not expect Wiki has a write up on this . However, Wikipedia do have a write up on fried rice. As per Wikipedia:

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“Fried rice is a dish of steamed rice stir-fried in a wok, often mixed with other ingredients, such as eggs, vegetables, and meat. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets, just before dessert. As a homemade dish, fried rice is typically made with leftover ingredients (including vegetables, meat) from other dishes, leading to countless variations.Many popular varieties of fried rice have their own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice. Elsewhere, most restaurants catering to vegetarian or Muslim clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice and the Indonesian spicy nasi goreng (fried rice).(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_rice)

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For this illustration, in order to illustrate the effect of egg coated fried rice, I have selected simple ingredients using salted fish, bean sprouts and eggs as the main ingredients. Of course you can choose any ingredients that you liked..

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WHAT IS REQUIRED

Servings: About 4-5 adults

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  • 3 cups of cooked rice
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons of cooking oil
  • Some bean sprouts (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon of cooked salted fish (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon of chopped spring onion
  • Pinches of salt
  • Dashes of white pepper
  • Sugar or seasonings to taste

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STEPS OF PREPARATION

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  • Crack the eggs to the cooled rice. Add salt, dashes of pepper and other seasonings. Use hand to stir the rice until the rice are coated with raw eggs as evenly as possible.

  • In a big frying pan, add the oil, sauté the garlic until fragrant and golden brown, add in the salted fish and stir fry for an additional one minute.

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  • Add in the rice, stir fry until the eggs dries up. If desired, add more seasonings. Add in the chopped spring onion and bean sprouts, stir fry for another 2-3 minutes and dish up. Best to serve warm .

Notes

  • Usually for one cup of rice, one egg and one tablespoon of oil is used.

  • If you want very yellowish colour egg coated fried rice, you have to use all egg yolks (about 50 grams of egg yolks for one cup of rice)

  • Overnight rice is ideal but freshly cooked rice is acceptable. However, the rice have to be cooled completely.

  • If your rice grains requires say 1 cup of water for 1 cup of rice, reduce the water by 10 per cent to 0.9 cup of water for one cup of rice. This is to avoid the rice from becoming too soggy for stir frying.

  • Throughout the whole process of stir frying, high heat shall be used.

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CONCLUSION

Some members of Facebook Group have tried this method of frying rice and are very pleased with the results. I hope these pointers will help new house chefs.  Feel free to add in anything that you like such as sausages, barbecue pork, prawns and etc.. Of course, with crab meat, it will transform the common fried rice into a very presentable dish..

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Hope you like the post today. Cheers and have a nice day.

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