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Monday March 06, 2006

Adventures in Bachelor Cookery, part 2: Trivial Egg Fried Rice

I figured I'd start with the fundamentals :-).

Funny thing is, I find what I got right here tastes better than any equivalent I've had from a Chinese take-away. I'm not taking pride in my cooking yet, either.

Here's my recipe (adapted a bit from the Wagamama cookbook).

To feed 1 good-sized bachelor, assuming an accompanying main dish of curry, veg, or something else entirely:

take 1 small mug of rice - I favour Uncle Ben's long grain
rinse in cold water repeatedly to get rid of as much of the starch as possible
put the rice in a small saucepan, add 1.33 mugs of water
bring to the boil
on reaching the boil, put the lid on the pan and turn the heat right down
let the pan and its contents do their thing for 10 mins; meantime, add a little sunflower oil to your big heavy frying pan and heat it up to the point where the oil starts smoking (aka "aim for your pan going incandescent"
also, while this is afoot, mix up a couple of eggs in a bowl
transfer your rice from saucepan to frying pan, keep it moving with your spatula until the water has just about stopped bubbling (ie it's boiled off) - this is also about the point where you should put any other ingredients in, if you're going for veg, prawns, etc with your rice
pour your eggs in, move everything around vigorously for a couple of minutes until the rice / egg mix has stiffened uniformly
transfer to plate

Enjoy. (2006-03-06 03:24:05.0) Permalink Comments [0]

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