Shrimp Fried Rice 101

Making shrimp-fried rice is easier than you may think. The main ingredient is leftover white rice, the rest is very simple.

Fried rice is a dish of cooked rice that has been stir-fried in a wok or a frying pan and is usually mixed with other ingredients such as eggs, vegetables, seafood, or meat. It is often eaten by itself or as an accompaniment to another dish.

Fried Rice

Fried rice is a popular component of East Asian, Southeast Asian and certain South Asian cuisines, as well as a staple national dish of Indonesia. As a homemade dish, fried rice is typically made with ingredients left over from other dishes, leading to countless variations.

What gives Chinese fried rice its flavor?

The most important are soy sauce and oyster sauce. They add unique flavors to rice, but it can be easy to go overboard. Make sure you add small amounts of each and regularly taste the rice. Your goal should be to emphasize the flavors of your rice, meat, and vegetables.

What is the best rice for fried rice?

Long-grain white rice is perfect for fried rice. It cooks up fluffy and not sticky, with individual grains remaining firm and distinct. It all comes down to two starch molecules: amylose and amylopectin.

What's in Chinese oyster sauce?

Oyster sauce is typically made with oysters, water salt, sugar, MSG, modified corn starch, wheat flour, and caramel color. The vegetarian versions of it are usually made of the same ingredients but instead of oysters, there's soybeans, brown sugar, and mushroom flavor.

Shrimp Fried Rice 101 Video Tutorial

Shrimp Fried Rice 101

Ingredients:

3 tbsp Chinese light soy sauce

3 tbsp Oyster sauce

1 cup chopped ham

1 tsp white sugar

2 tbsp vegetable oil

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 small onion, diced

2 eggs, lightly whisked

1 lb shrimp, peeled and deveined

4 cups cooked jasmine or long grain rice (1.5 cups uncooked)

1 cup frozen peas and carrots

¼ cup finely sliced spring onion (scallions)

1 tsp sesame oil

¼ tsp ground white pepper

Instructions:

To make shrimp fried rice we are using a nonstick skillet we could be using a wok however they are made for high output commercial stoves home stovetops are going to concentrate all the heat at the bottom of the pot leaving the sides cold since they're frying is all about high heat we want as much surface area as possible exposed to the heat over medium-high heat add in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil then we're frying 2vn eggs to not overcook the eggs as we don't want them to turn brown as soon as the expert cook you may set them to one side of the pot now we're adding in one pound of shrimp clean and devein sauté the shrimp for a couple of minutes until they are just cooked to not overcook please as there are cooking flip them over so they cook evenly.

After a couple of minutes get the shrimp and the eggs out and set them aside.

To the pan add four cloves of garlic minced 1 small onion diced saute for a couple of minutes so the onion becomes translucent then add in 1 cup of ham and diced followed a 1 cup of frozen peas and carrots stir that in for about 2 minutes add in 1 TSP of sugar that sugar is going to help balancing the flavors now add in 4 cups of cooked white rice the rice was cut the baby for any rest are in the fridge overnight give that a stir as you stir the rice and make sure to break up any lumps.

Add in 3 tablespoons of light soy sauce 3 tablespoons of oyster sauce.

Stir that in we want to get every grain of rice evenly coated.

And after a couple of minutes, we bring these guys back into the skillet and

Toss it all in.

As we are approaching the final stage turn the heat off add in one teaspoon of sesame oil the sesame oil would lose its fragrance if we heat it up too much a quarter of a teaspoon of ground white pepper 1/4 of a cup of spring onions now toss it all in for one last time by adding the sesame oil you would get a lovely smokiness that you would normally get from a Chinese restaurant fry rice.

Enjoy it