Thursday, February 7, 2008

Pork Fried Rice

The [American] restaurant convention of ordering a dish of fried rice with numerous other main' courses, or ordering it in place of white rice, is Western and not Chinese at all.
~The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cook Book

We've been snow-bound for a couple of days and I've been so busy that I didn't think to take anything out of the freezer to thaw for dinner. After I finished work I had to attend to some snow removal, all the while knowing that there was housework and homework that urgently needed my attention. Well into the evening, I began scanning the cupboards and fridge looking for "What's for Dinner?"

The Recipe

Ingredients
4 cups cooked rice
Leftover pork, chopped in small pieces
Sesame oil
Soy Sauce
4 eggs
Fresh or frozen veggies as found, chopped or shredded into small bits

Preparation
Cover the bottom of a deep pan with sesame oil
Sauté the pork until it is hot
Add the rice to the pan
Add veggies (in this case some frozen baby peas and some fresh shredded carrot)
Add soy sauce to taste (remember, it is very salty!)
Stir until soy is well mixed
Lightly beat the eggs in a bowl and then pour over the rice
Stir rice vigorously until the eggs are cooked

According to the Food Timeline:
Fried rice...is a standard method of cooking leftovers, involving frying cold boiled rice with chopped-up meat and vegetables.

This standard method of using up some leftovers is extremely yummy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't have leftover pork. What do I do?