How To Make Chicken Fried Rice

How to cook Chicken Fried Rice.Wow Yummy!!

Chicken fried rice is a quick and easy recipe for any occasion, this is made using soy sauce, crispy tender rice, chunks of marinated chicken and colorful vegetables. It is a different version of fried rice and not like the popular Nigerian fried rice made with curry or turmeric. I love the look and taste of this rice. You might want to make this for this festive season and beyond. Chicken fried rice is by far better than the take out fried rice or restaurant type.

Chicken Fried Rice video

If you really want to try out something very different, here is a delicious chicken stir fried rice for you to enjoy with your favourite drink, you can even make this in batches or larger quantity for Christmas, birthday or for any of your upcoming occasion; in this case all you need to do is to increase the quantity of the rice and all other ingredients that are needed.

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I have made different types of fried rice before just like this shrimp fried rice, Nigerian fried rice, but I just know I have fallen in love with this very chicken fried rice and will love to prepare it again and again.

Before I made this rice, I made sure I prepared all my ingredients and kept all in place, doing it this way makes it very easy to throw in everything into the pan at once and in no time the rice was ready to serve. Instead of using fresh rice, you can use day old rice or your usual white rice prepared for tomato stew. However, long grained white rice is ideal for this rice recipe, but you can easily switch over to cooked brown rice if that is what you have.

I had some fresh chicken at home in the fridge, I just seasoned and cooked it then shred into bigger chunks, it is the main ingredient for this chicken fried rice followed by the colourful vegetables. You might also want to see the video above on how to make easy chicken fried rice. Lets get cooking!

Ingredients for chicken fried rice

• 1kg boneless chicken , seasoned and cooked
• 2 cups of cooked rice
• cup carrot, chopped
• cup green peas
• cup green beans, chopped
• 1 cup sweet corn
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 medium ginger, grated
• 4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce/oyster sauce
• teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 stick spring onion
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for chicken fried rice

Soft chicken for chicken fried rice

Steps on how to make chicken fried rice

1. Season and cook your chicken until soft, shred the chicken into bigger chunks and fry it slighly in oil and set aside.
2. Bring out your left over white rice from the fridge and leave to sit at room temperature. I used the chicken stock to cook the rice and then leave to cool for few hours.
3. Prepare carrots, green beans, peas and spring onion and drain the sweet corn from the liquid and keep all aside.
4. Place a pan or a wok on heat, rub some butter or oil, whisk the egg and add to it, use a spoon to break the egg apart and cook on medium flame.
5. Push the egg to one side of the wok, add ginger, garlic, onions and saute for 2 minutes until fragrant. More oil could be added if the content looks dry.
6. Add the mix vegetables and saute for 5 minutes or until they are soft, season with a table spoon of soy sauce, pepper flakes, thyme and stir in the egg to combine with the other ingredients. Cook for 2 minutes for the veggies to absorb the seasoning.
7. Add the cooked white rice, season with 2 table spoons of soy sauce and stir properly until the rice is coated with the sauce and the vegetables.
8. Bring in the chicken chunks and stir well. Garnish with chopped spring onion and cook for a minute.
9. Your chicken fried rice is ready.

Steps on how to make chicken fried rice with pictures

1. Season and cook your chicken until soft, shred the chicken into bigger chunks and fry it slighly in oil and set aside.

Make sure you season your chicken properly before cooking

Separate the chicken from the flesh, shred and fry slightly in oil

2. Bring out your left over white rice from the fridge and leave to sit at room temperature. I used the chicken stock to cook the rice and then leave to cool for few hours.

3. Prepare carrots, green beans, peas and spring onion and drain the sweet corn from the liquid and keep all aside.

4. Place a pan or a wok on heat, rub some butter or oil, whisk the egg and add to it, use a spoon to break the egg apart and cook on medium flame

Break the egg into smaller pieces

5. Push the egg to one side of the wok, add ginger, garlic, onions and saute for 2 minutes until fragrant. More oil could be added if the content looks dry.

6. Add the mix vegetables and saute for 5 minutes or until they are soft, season with a table spoon of soy sauce, pepper flakes, thyme and stir in the egg to combine with the other ingredients. Cook for 2 minutes for the veggies to absorb the seasoning.

You can use other vegetable like broccoli if you prefer that

7. Add the cooked white rice, season with 2 table spoons of soy sauce and stir properly until the rice is coated with the sauce and the vegetables.

Stir in the cooked rice to combine and season with soy/ oyster sauce

8. Bring in the chicken chunks and stir well. Garnish with chopped spring onion and cook for a minute.

Garnish the rice with spring onion and cook for a minute

9. Your chicken fried rice is ready.

Chicken fried rice is ready

Enjoy!

Chicken fried rice recipe