Beef and pineapple fried rice (菠萝炒饭)
A quick one-bowl meal served in a pineapple shell. Try this easy pineapple fried rice with succulent beef cubes! It has a balanced flavour of savoury and sweet.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 200 g beef, diced (7oz, see note 1)
- 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp Shaoxing rice wine
- 1 ripe pineapple (see note 2)
- 2 tbsp neutral cooking oil
- 2 stalk scallions (finely chopped)
- 1 red bell pepper (diced)
- 500 g cooked rice (4 cups, see note 3)
- 4 tsp light soy sauce
- 1/4 tsp salt (or to taste)
Instructions
- 1
Mix beef with cornstarch, sesame oil and rice wine. Leave to marinate for about 10 minutes.
- 2
Halve the pineapple. Take out the flesh and dice it (as shown in images). Keep the shell for later use.
- 3
Heat up a wok (or a deep frying pan) over high heat. Pour in oil, then stir in beef. Fry until its colour becomes pale. Dish out and set aside (leave any oil in the wok).
- 4
Put scallions and bell pepper in the wok. Fry for 1 minute or so.
- 5
Add diced pineapple and cooked rice. Fry until the rice is piping hot. Put in the beef, along with light soy sauce and salt. Give everything a final stir to distribute the seasonings.
- 6
Put the fried rice into pineapple shells. Serve immediately.