Amazing Fried Rice

By jsides

Ingredients

• 3 cups cold cooked rice (1 cup dry long-grain rice yields 3 cups cooked)
• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup ham, diced
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 tsp jarred minced garlic (or 2 minced fresh cloves)
• 3 medium carrots, peeled and diced
• 1 small head broccoli, stem discarded, florets chopped
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce

Details

Servings 6
Adapted from penniesandpancakes.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

*Makes 6 large servings

(Note: This fried rice is a little stickier than restaurant-style fried rice because I use less oil for frying, and an over-abundance of vegetables. If you're not a fan of sticky rice, be sure to use pre-cooked cold rice to combat the stickiness. If you don't have any rice sitting in the refrigerator, you can make fresh rice. It'll just be stickier. This recipe is versatile. Different vegetables or varieties of rice, or meat may be substituted: brown rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice, corn, peas, mushrooms, peppers, chicken, shrimp, beef etc. Really, whatever you have in your fridge that needs to be used up.)

DIRECTIONS

Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

Add the ham. Cook, stirring occasionally till ham is lightly browned.

Add onion. Cook for 2 minutes until onion is fragrant, then add the garlic, and cook an additional 30 seconds or so.

Add the rest of the vegetables and cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Push the ham and vegetables to the sides of the skillet with your spoon, and add the eggs, scrambling them, then incorporating them with the vegetables.

Add the rice, and stir everything together. Add the soy sauce, and stir till rice is hot, and everything is mixed together.