Fried Rice

Chef Azuki had a lot of left over rice.  Her mother always taught her not to be wasteful.  "Mottainai" is a word that means wasteful and throwing away leftovers is SO mottainai.  Well if you have left over rice what is better than making fried rice.

Fried Rice

Ingredients;

5 strips of bacon slice into 3/4” pieces (Reserve 2 Tbsp. bacon oil)

5 Cups of Rice

5 small stalks of green onion

2 eggs

1 Tbsp. Shoyu (soy sauce)

¼ tsp. salt (optional)

1/8 tsp. pepper (optional)

Directions:

1.     Grab a pan or wok and fry up bacon!

2.     Remove bacon and discard all but 2 Tbsp of oil

3.     Heat oil on medium heat

4.     Add rice

5.     Add bacon and green onions

6.     Gently stir

7.     Open up a hole in the center of the rice so you can see the bottom of the pan

8.     Lightly scramble two eggs and put it in the center

9.     Continue scrambling while cooking

10. When it reaches a soft scramble, start mixing the rice into the egg.

11. Add shoyu (soy sauce) and mix in

12. Taste it 

13. If you think it needs a little more flavor add salt and pepper to taste

Don't worry we're not wasting one kernal of rice.  The family devoured the fried rice!  No more leftovers here.

BeaNspiration:  Don't forget recipes that use up all the leftovers!