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Salted egg fried rice (咸蛋黄炒饭)






Fried rice is a common home dish. Plain white rice is transformed into a flavorful dish with seasoning and thrown with vibrant vegetables by a quick stir-fry. What a beautiful thing!

I'd like to share this umami shrimp-flavored salted egg yolk fried rice with you today. The flavour of the salted egg yolks and the shrimpy taste from sautéing the shrimp head until the shrimp tomalley is beginning to stick to the wok. It’s so good.

The egg is one of the components of this fried rice. It is not the same as regular fried rice, which involves scrambling the egg, breaking it up into little bits, setting it aside, and then adding it back to the rice. Rather, I beat the egg and combine it with the leftover cold rice. Make sure the egg coats each and every grain of rice. As a result, the rice will appear to be golden in hue.


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.

Let us get all the ingredients and get started on the delicious umami fried rice.  Do you already feel full? 


INGREDIENTS

3 cups overnight rice

100g shrimps, deveined

1 large, diced onion

3 eggs

3 salted egg yolk, steamed and mashed        

½ red carrots, cut into cube

30g French bean, cut into cube

¼ tsp sugar

½ tsp white pepper

3 tbsp cooking oil

Some sunny side up




METHODS

1. Mashed the salted egg yolks. Broken the leftover rice. Beat the eggs in a bowl.  Pour the beaten egg into the broken leftover rice. Mix it well until all the egg coats each and every grain of rice. 

2. Heat the wok over medium-high heat with the remaining cooking oil from sauté the shrimp heads. Add in the diced onions and sauté it until translucent.   Add in the carrots,  French bean, and shrimps, stir-fried until all the ingredients well  incorporated well with the onion.

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.

5. Place the fired rice on the plate, top with a sunny side up. Enjoy!!























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