'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice. I cooked a refrigerator clean-out fried rice. That's what leftovers and pantry staples are for. One perk of leftover rice: You can spend tonight's prep time dedicated to the toppings without worrying about Get the cooked rice from last night out of the fridge, stir-fry it with sriracha, soy sauce and.
Fried rice is a great dumping ground for random ingredients lying around your kitchen.
And guess what — all those random ingredients will come together and do wonderful things.
Leftover rice will dry out more each day it sits in the fridge.
You can have 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice
- Prepare of Cold/Leftover cooked rice.
- It's of (equal to)=.
- You need of Chopped/Diced raw vegetables/left overs.
- You need of Olive oil or butter.
- It's of Minced garlic.
- Prepare of Ginger.
- It's of Sesame oil.
- You need of Tamari/Soy sauce.
Uncooked rice can contain spores of a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus. Even after cooking, these spores can still survive. Whenever I make rice with my Zoujirushi, it tastes amazing! However, if I put it in a Tupperware in the fridge, it almost immediately gets dry and no longer fluffy.
'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice instructions
- If you do not have leftover rice, cook some rice in a yummy vegetable, chicken or beef stock at least 2 hours before preparing meal - the key is having enough rice to equal the amount of veggies you are using. Be sure rice is cooked and cold, and all veggies are chopped/diced prior to cooking..
- Heat olive oil or butter in a saute pan / wok (pan large enough for rice and veggies to be stirred).
- Add garlic, cook for a minute or 2..
- Add veggies, 1 at a time, in order of desired cooking time (example: 1st carrots for 3-5min, then onion, then broccoli, then water chestnuts, then spinach).
- Stir in rice, a couple dashes of ginger, sesame oil and tamari sauce (to taste). Stir fry for about 5min, then remove from heat and enjoy!.
- Any veggie combo will work, here is some inspiration: corn, peas, pea pods, sugar snaps, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, onion, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, waterchestnuts, eggplant, tomato, sweet potato, zucchini - add left over shrimp, chicken, pork, beef... anything goes!!! Even bacon!.
Instead of putting mine in the fridge, I measure it out by the cup and store it in ziplock bags in the freezer (squeeze any extra air out of the. Growing up, having fried rice for dinner was synonymous with "fridge clean-out day," meaning that any leftover vegetables and proteins from the night-or week-before were on their way to the wok. Those leftovers might be pieces of Chinese roast pork, bits of leftover chicken and baby bok choy, gai lan. And besides, fried rice is actually nicer when made with rice that was cooked the day before and kept in the fridge. It is firm and easier to stir than if the rice was just cooked.