Chinese Sweet Sausage and Shrimp Fried Rice
Delightful Plate recipe - Seafood
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 3 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 0.5 lb shrimp ((peeled, deveined))
- 1 Chinese pork sausage ((about 1/2 cup thinly sliced))
- 1 small zucchini
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup frozen green peas
- 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
- 3 tablespoons thinly sliced shallot
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced scallion
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- 1
If use freshly cooked rice, spread it on a plate to cool for 10-15 minutes.
- 2
Peel, devein and chop shrimp into small pieces.
- 3
Cut zucchini in half length-wise and slice thinly.
- 4
Slice Chinese sausage thinly.
- 5
Beat egg and set aside.
- 6
Place a wok/large skillet over medium-high (for non-stick skillet) or high heat (for wok). When it's hot, add Chinese sausage, stir and render fat for 1-2 minutes. Set aside.
- 7
Add garlic and stir until fragrant, add shrimp pieces and a pinch of salt. Stir and when shrimp is almost cooked through, transfer to a plate.
- 8
Add zucchini and quickly stir for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Set aside.
- 9
Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. When oil is hot, add shallot, stir and cook for 1 minute until fragrant. Add rice, break up the chunks of rice, stir and toss until rice is coated with oil and turns pale brown, about 3-5 minutes.
- 10
Pour the beaten egg over the rice, quickly mix and stir so that the egg coats all the rice grains.
- 11
Add frozen peas, continue to toss and stir until peas are almost thawed. Add Chinese sausage, shrimp, zucchini, soy sauce and fish sauce, toss and stir well until all add-ins are cooked through and rice grains are separate. Turn off the heat, add scallion, pepper and sesame oil. Mix well and then serve immediately.