Uncle Roger’s Fried Rice

Notes

  • Enzo and I created this recipe from a youtube video he wanted to try

Ingredients

  • 5 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 shallot, sliced
  • 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, whisked
  • 2 scallions/spring onions
  • 1-2 chili peppers, seeded and diced
  • about 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • about 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • MSG
  • vegetable oil or peanut oil
  • cooked rice, preferably leftover day-old cooked refrigerated rice

Directions

  1. Coat wok in vegetable/peanut oil and heat until the oil starts to smoke.
  2. Discard oil
  3. Add new vegetable/peanut oil and spread around the wok
  4. Add garlic and shallot, cook until fragrent (a couple of minutes, max)
  5. Add the whisked eggs and stir continuously until the eggs are almost completely cooked through
  6. Add the rice and stir to incorporate everything
  7. If it’s too try, add more oil
  8. Add soy sauce
  9. Add sesame oil
  10. Stir continuously and flatten the rice so it doesn’t clump together
  11. Add a few good shakes of MSG
  12. Add spring onion and diced chili peppers
  13. Stir and heat through, serve immediately.