Salted egg fried rice

Fried rice is a common home dish. Plain white rice is transformed into a flavorful dish with soy sauce seasoning and thrown with vibrant vegetables by a quick stir-fry. What a beautiful thing! Growing up in a Chinese family, making homemade fried rice was always a "clear out the fridge" kind of dish that did not require a precise recipe. My mother would add meat, such as diced chicken or Chinese sausages, to the leftover rice from a previous meal.

It is best to use cold, leftover rice since the starches in the grains harden when stored in the fridge, making it simpler to separate and cook in the wok. Sometimes I cook the rice the day before so that I can make fried rice for my breakfast the following morning. For ordinary rice, the proportion of rice to water is 1:1. Use rice that has chilled in the refrigerator for at least one night to avoid sticky rice. When stir-fried, freshly cooked rice becomes quite sticky.

Before frying, cold rice needs to be broken up; if it is too much, put on some disposable gloves and grab it by the handful. To flavour the rice subtly and infuse it with flavour, soy sauce is added to traditional fried rice. But for this recipe, I will omit the soy sauce.

I am sharing salted egg yolks fried rice today. Adding salted egg yolks to the fried rice to make the rice softer, saltier, and more delectable. The salted egg yolk oil will colour the rice an appealing shade of yellow to whet your hunger.

Let us get all the ingredients and get started on the delicious umami fried rice.

INGREDIENTS

3 cups overnight rice

3 Chinese sausages (lap Cheung), diced

1 large, diced onion

3 salted egg yolk and 1 egg white, steamed and mashed        

½ red carrots, cut into cube

30g French bean, cut into cube

2 tbsp fresh steamed sweet corns kernels (optional)

¼ tsp sugar

½ tsp white pepper

3 tbsp cooking oil

 

METHODS

1. Prepare a pot with water for steaming and bring the water to a boil. Steamed the salted yolks and white for 10 minutes at medium heat. Turn off the heat, and let it sit on the steamer for another 5 minutes. Removed it from the steamer. Mashed them when it is still warm, and they are ready to use.       

2. Heat the wok over medium-high heat with 3 tbsp of cooking oil and sauté the diced onion until translucent.  Stir fry the diced Chinese sausages until fragrant. Add in the carrots, sweet corn kernels and French bean, stir-fried, and incorporated well with the onion and sausages.

3. Add in the mashed salted egg yolk and white, stir fry evenly until the colour turns yellow enough and the yolk becomes creamier and sandier. Add leftover rice and stir constantly until all the rice is coated with salted egg yolk.

4. Seasoning with sugar and white pepper. Taste and adjust with salt, if necessary. Give everything a quick stir before dishing out.

It is time for this delectable fried rice. Do you already feel full? We can cook golden fried rice for fussy eaters' children to entice their taste buds.