Breakfast Fried Rice

By susanwadle

Ingredients

• 5 slices of bacon
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 3 green onions, thinly sliced
• 3 cups day-old cooked rice, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup light soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 2 eggs

Details

Servings 2
Adapted from food52.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a heavy-bottomed skillet over medium heat, cook the bacon, turning it until it's browned evenly. Remove the bacon from the pan and let drain on paper towels. Once the bacon is cool enough to handle, roughly chop.

In a large skillet over medium heat, warm the sesame oil until shimmering. Add 2 of the sliced green onions, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

Stir in the cooked rice, breaking up any large clumps. Add the soy sauce, rice vinegar, bacon, toasted sesame seeds, and crushed red pepper flakes. Stir to fully incorporate the ingredients and cook for 5 minutes, or until warmed through.

In a non-stick skillet over medium heat, add the butter. Crack the eggs into the skillet and immediately cover the pan with a lid. Cook until the egg white is cooked through and the egg yolk is barely set, approximately 5 minutes.

Place a fried egg on top of each bowl of breakfast fried rice and garnish with the remaining sliced green onion. Serve immediately, being sure to break the yolk over the rice so it can act like a sauce.

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This was fantastic! Made slight change, so I could use only 2 pans. I cooked the scallions in the bacon grease, and added the sesame oil on top of the rice before the soy sauce/rice vinegar. So, so good!

Hi Reiss. Thanks for checking out the recipe. I'm sorry but I don't have the nutritional information. I'm not a nutritionist, so the best I can say is to add up the individual ingredients.

this looks bomb-diggity. Can't wait to make it!

This looks so delicious! I often make a quicky friedfor breakfast but this is an elevated and easy update. Thank you and your Japanese roots!

This sounds so yummy, I am cooking extra rice tonight, so I will have plenty leftover to make this Sunday morning. Congratulations and thank you!!

They make coconut bacon!? I'll have to try that! I was a vegetarian for 12 years (until I went to school in Italy and discovered prosciutto), so I can certainly appreciate good meat substitutions :)

Sounds like my normal fried rice recipe, it always has bacon (or ham, or leftover pork) and green onions with a fried egg on top *laugh* what makes it breakfast? (Not to say I wouldn't eat this in a heartbeat!)

Also, being Dutch... we slather it with peanut sauce. That would make it a little more breakfast, right?

Thanks for the comment. You're right! This is not what many people would call a traditional breakfast - certainly you could eat a variation of this dish anytime of day. However, the Japanese tend not to have much of a distinction between breakfast and the rest of the days meals. As a child, I can remember coming downstairs in the morning and seeing my father eating Miso Soup - I'm sure that sounds rather strange to most, but for most Asian cultures that's pretty common. Try it for breakfast - I'm sure you'll love it!

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