High carbQuick

Egg Fried Rice

Cold rice only. Fresh rice steams and goes claggy.

12 min Serves 1 Stove, Frying pan

Per serving

672

kcal

26.9 g

protein

85.9 g

carbs

23.7 g

fat

4 g protein per 100 kcal · 6.3 g fibre. Calculated from the exact weights below using standard food composition data, so they are close estimates rather than lab values.

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Ingredients

For 1 serving.

  • White rice, cooked and cold250 g
  • Egg, two eggs110 g
  • Frozen peas80 g
  • Spring onion30 g
  • Soy sauce18 g
  • Olive oil12 g

Method

  1. 1Get the pan hotter than feels sensible.
  2. 2Scramble the eggs quickly and push them to one side.
  3. 3Rice in, break up every clump, then the peas and soy.
  4. 4Spring onion off the heat.

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The techniques and safety points this recipe uses, explained from scratch.

Frozen vegetables need cookingShow

Frozen vegetables and sweetcorn are usually blanched, not fully cooked. After a listeria outbreak linked to frozen sweetcorn, food agencies advise cooking them unless the pack says 'ready to eat'.

  1. Add them straight from frozen — no need to thaw.
  2. Cook until they are piping hot all the way through, even if they are going into a salad (let them cool after).
Cooked rice: cool it fast, eat it within a dayShow

Uncooked rice can carry spores (Bacillus cereus) that survive cooking. If cooked rice sits warm, they wake up and make a toxin that reheating does not destroy. The fix is easy: don't let it sit warm.

  1. Eat it straight away, or cool leftovers quickly — spread it out on a plate or tray so it cools within about an hour.
  2. Then put it in the fridge. Eat it within 24 hours.
  3. Reheat it only once, until it is steaming hot all the way through.
Spring onionsShow

Mild and quick. The white part is stronger; the green tops are softer and often scattered over at the end.

  1. Trim off the hairy root and any tired tips of the green.
  2. Line them up together and slice across into thin rings, or slice long thin strips at an angle.
Cooking riceShow

Two easy ways: boil it like pasta (hardest to get wrong), or the absorption method (fluffier).

  1. Rinse it in a sieve under the cold tap until the water runs mostly clear.
  2. Like pasta: boil in lots of salted water, 10–12 minutes for white rice (brown takes 25–30), tasting until tender, then drain.
  3. Absorption: 1 mug of rice to 1½ mugs of water and a pinch of salt. Boil uncovered until the water drops below the rice and small holes appear, then lid on, lowest heat, 12–15 minutes. Don't lift the lid.
  4. Take it off the heat and leave it covered for 5–10 minutes, then fluff it up with a fork.

Ready when: Each grain is soft all the way through, with no chalky white centre.

Cracking an egg cleanlyShow

Cracking on a flat surface gives a clean break and far fewer bits of shell than the edge of a bowl.

  1. Tap the egg firmly once on the flat worktop.
  2. Push your thumbs into the crack over a small bowl and pull the two halves apart.
  3. If shell falls in, scoop it out with a half eggshell — it works much better than a spoon or finger.
  4. To beat: whisk with a fork until the white and yolk are one even yellow, with no streaks of white.
  5. Wash your hands after handling shells.

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