Skillet Shrimp Fried Rice

You don't demand to rely on a wok or take-out to bask non bad fried rice.  Simply pick out care of a hot skillet together with roughly mutual frigidity cooked rice to teach that restaurant-style crispness nosotros crave!  Toss inwards a hearty dose of vegetables together with shrimp together with you've got a batch of Skillet Shrimp Fried Rice gear upward for a quick together with tasty dinner.
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My favorite affair almost getting Chinese take-out for dinner is the egg rolls.  You idea I was going to country the fried rice, didn't you?  Well, truth-be-told, fried rice is a real unopen second.

Fortunately, nosotros don't direct maintain to rely on take-out to bask delicious fried rice at home.

Nope.  It's totally doable to brand your ain homemade fried rice ... amongst all that wonderful restaurant-style crispness ... at home.  Even if you lot don't direct maintain a wok.  Which I don't.  I hateful seriously, how many of us do?  A skillet volition produce but fine.

One of the tricks to making perfectly crisp fried rice at abode is to never utilization freshly-cooked warm rice.  Always utilization chilled rice, preferably that has been cooked the twenty-four hr menstruum before.

Why, you lot ask?

Because rice that's but been cooked nonetheless contains a lot of wet together with tin create mucilaginous fried rice.  Chilled day-old rice has lost a proficient combat of its wet piece it's been inwards the fridge together with plant best for creating perfectly-textured fried rice.

So for best results, i twenty-four hr menstruum inwards advance, create white rice according to parcel directions, cool it, embrace loosely, together with refrigerate several hours or overnight.

 

The other play tricks to making perfectly crisp fried rice at abode is to direct maintain together with spill out the skillet hot when frying the rice. 

For the best texture, intend similar you're searing meat together with locomote certain the pan is hot earlier adding the rice.  This volition aid the rice prepare that combat of crispness nosotros dearest equally it fries.

We dearest our fried rice amongst shrimp, lots of onion, diced carrots, together with peas.  But i of the beauties of this dish is its versatility it tastes fabulous amongst thus many kinds of vegetables together with meats.  Try adding almost 1/2 loving cup of other chopped veggies, similar scallions, light-green or scarlet bell pepper, napa cabbage, corn, or edible bean sprouts, to the mix.  For a meat, stir inwards almost 1 loving cup cooked diced chicken, pork, or ham, instead of shrimp if you'd like.

So the adjacent fourth dimension you've got a hankering for roughly fried rice, there's no demand to pick upward the telephone to telephone telephone inwards for take-out.  Simply pick out care of a hot skillet together with roughly mutual frigidity cooked rice to teach that restaurant-style crispness nosotros crave!  It's one quick together with tasty dinner the whole line of piece of job solid unit of measurement volition love.

Skillet Shrimp Fried Rice
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 c. cold cooked rice*
• 1 & 1/2 T. canola oil, divided
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 c. chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 c. diced carrots
• 1/2 c. frozen peas, thawed
• 1/2 to 3/4 lb. medium-sized shrimp, peeled & deveined
• 2 T. soy sauce
• 1 tsp. sesame stone oil {optional}
• salt & pepper, to gustatory modality

Directions

1. Heat ii teaspoons stone oil inwards a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add eggs together with disputation pan to spread the eggs inwards a thin, fifty-fifty layer. Cook for ii minutes together with thus flip. Cook on the 2d side for almost xxx seconds until eggs are cooked through. Remove eggs from the pan. Dice together with laid aside.
2. In the same pan, rut 1 tablespoon stone oil over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion, garlic, together with diced carrots; sauté for almost ii to iii minutes until onion is limp.
3. Add thawed frozen peas together with shrimp. Saute almost iii to 4 minutes until shrimp are no longer pink.
4. Break upward the chilled rice amongst a fork to withdraw lumps. Add to the hot pan. {For the best texture, intend similar you're searing meat together with locomote certain the pan is hot earlier adding the rice. This volition aid the rice prepare a combat of crispness equally it fries.} Season amongst soy sauce, sesame oil, together with a combat of common salt together with pepper. Stir together with sauté the rice for at to the lowest degree iii minutes until the seasonings together with rice are good combined, together with roughly of the rice grains teach a combat crispy.
5. Add the diced eggs together with toss to combine. Adjust common salt together with pepper, to taste.

* Chilled day-old rice that's lost roughly of its wet plant best for fried rice.  Rice that's but been cooked tin create a mucilaginous fried rice.   One twenty-four hr menstruum inwards advance, create white rice according to parcel directions to yield 4 cups cooked rice.   Cool, embrace loosely, together with refrigerate several hours or overnight.  Or, utilization leftover take-out rice ... similar I produce all the time!

Enjoy!

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