Quick Egg Fried Rice Recipe {15 Minutes}

Big bowl of Egg Fried Rice, with spring onion and mixed vegetables.

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Quick Egg Fried Rice Recipe {15 Minutes}

Dinner in 15 minutes? Don't mind if I do! This easy Egg Fried Rice recipe is healthy, packed with vegetables, vegetarian, delicious, and ready in a flash.

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Family Food

Servings: People

Author: Sarah Rossi

Ingredients

1 tsp Olive oil
2 Cloves garlic Crushed.
1 tbsp Ginger Paste or fresh.
1 Onion Finely chopped.
1 tbsp Chinese five spice
1 Red pepper Sliced.
1 Orange pepper Sliced.
2 Carrots Chopped.
150 g Peas Frozen.
2 tbsp Dark soy sauce
2 tbsp Oyster sauce
500 g Microwave rice (2 x 250g packs)
4 Eggs

To serve (Optional):

Spring onions (Scallion) Sliced.
Red chilli Finely chopped.

Optional additional ingredients:

Cooked chicken
Ham
Prawns

Instructions

Heat your oil in a heavy bottomed frying pan.
Add onions, garlic, ginger, five spice, the vegetables and fry over a high heat for 4 minutes.
Pour in your rice, oyster sauce and soy sauce and fry for a further 3 minutes.
Whisk your eggs, make a couple of wells in the mixture and add the eggs. Leave them to cook in the wells for 1 minute, and then keep stirring until cooked, approx 4 minutes.
Sprinkle with chopped spring onions and chillies.
Enjoy!

Notes

Oil: For a more authentic taste, substitute olive oil for sesame oil. However, don't go out and buy it, olive oil is just fine!

Garlic and ginger: I usually use a ginger paste, but fresh or frozen would also be fine, the same applies for garlic.

Rice: I have used wholemeal basmati rice, this gives extra bite and provides a heathy dose of fibre, however you can use which ever type of rice you prefer.

Egg: I have used 4 eggs (1 per person) but 2 or 3 would be fine. If you like your pieces of egg to be chunky leave them in the wells until they are almost cooked and stir to break up, if you prefer smaller sticky pieces stir them after about two minutes.

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