Chicken Fried Rice
Easy chicken fried rice can be cooked and delivered to your table in 30 minutes. If you want to cook a better-than-take-out chicken fried rice, with the same flavours right at home, then this recipe is for you.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- The ingredients mentioned below use standard measuring cups and spoons.
- 2 tbsp sesame oil(although recommended to add authentic flavors, skip by adding vegetable oil)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or vegetable oil
- 3 clove garlic minced
- 300 g boneless chicken cubes(roughly about 2 and 1/2 pieces boneless chicken breasts cut into 1/2″ pieces)
- 1 cup frozen peas(I’ve reduced this to 1/2 a cup as some in my family don’t like peas and they go to waste)
- 1 cup diced carrots(refer to recipe tips above for more options)
- 3 eggs lightly beaten
- 3 cup cooked rice
- 2-3 tbsp light soy sauce(use as needed)
- Salt to season(use sparingly as soy sauce is used)
- 4 green onions/spring onions chopped(used in cooking as well as a garnish)
Instructions
- 1
Prep work before you start cooking the chicken fried rice.
- 2
Have the rice cooked and chilled.
- 3
Cube the chicken and set it aside.
- 4
Dice the carrot and green onions, mince the garlic.
- 5
Cube the chicken into 1/2″ pieces, season with a pinch of salt, combine and set aside.
- 6
Place a large frying pan or wok over low to medium heat and pour in the oils.
- 7
Shallow fry over medium heat for 5 minutes or until they turn lightly golden in colour. Turn them over for an even fry.
- 8
Use a slotted spoon to transfer the chicken cubes onto a plate. set aside.
- 9
Into the same pan, add the minced garlic and fry for 2 minutes with the remaining oil used to fry the chicken cubes.
- 10
Once the garlic turns light golden, add the green peas, diced carrots.
- 11
Cook for 2-3 minutes over low-medium heat or until the vegetables turn soft. Toss them around.
- 12
Once the vegetables are cooked, move them to one side of the wok, reduce the heat to low.
- 13
Add the whisked eggs onto one side of the pan.
- 14
Gently run your wooden spoon through the egg to scramble it.
- 15
2-3 minutes should give you soft yet firm pieces of scrambled eggs.
- 16
Add the fried chicken pieces. Combine for a minute.
- 17
Add the cooked rice, half of the chopped green onions, along the soy sauce.
- 18
Stir and combine well. This should take you about 3-4 minutes.
- 19
Taste and season with salt if needed.
- 20
Garnish with leftover green onions and serve warm.