Easy Fried Rice Recipe
This easy fried rice recipe makes delicious Chinese fried rice perfect served alongside any Chinese food dish. Simple to make and customize to your taste, it’s an ideal way to use leftover rice, vegetables, and more.
- Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients
1/2 green pepper, finely chopped
1 tsp. butter, margarine, or oil
2 eggs
4 cups rice, cooked
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
Instructions
- Sauté the green pepper in a skillet with butter.
- Add eggs and stir until scrambled and set.
- Add rice and soy sauce.
- Heat through. For the best flavor, cook until it is heated through and the rice is browned.
Notes
The basic fried rice recipe is super versatile and easy to customize you your own taste. While the recipe only calls for rice, eggs and bell peppers, you can add any kind of vegetables and proteins that sound good. This recipe is a great way to use leftover rice, vegetables, chicken and more.
Here are some other things you might want to add to the easy fried rice recipe to make it a little more fancy:
- Mixed vegetables, like peas and carrots or a vegetable blend
- Onions, chopped and sautéed (You can sauté them as they are cooking in the fried rice.)
- Cooked meat, like chicken, beef, pork, shrimp or fish.
- Fried tofu
- Your favorite Asian sauce
- Any of the variations in our list above or anything that sounds good to you.
If you don’t like eggs or if you can’t eat them, you can leave them out of the recipe.
This recipe is a perfect way to use leftovers, so if you have any kind of leftover vegetables or cooked meat, add them to this fried rice recipe to use them without calling them leftovers.