Chinese · Main
Perfect Fried Rice
- Easy
- 15 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
Leads with fresh herbs arguing happily on top, toasted, nutty warmth throughout, on a drift of smoke.
Ingredients
- 4 cups day-old rice
- 3 eggs
- 4 scallions
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
- 1 tbsp soy, 1 tsp sesame oil
- Optional: char siu, shrimp, peas
The skills inside
The words inside
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Allergen screen
Found: gluten · egg · shellfish · soy · sesame
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Break the cold rice apart with wet hands.
- Scramble eggs in hot oil until barely set; remove.
- Blast rice over the highest heat, pressing and tossing until it dances and smells toasty.
- Return eggs, add soy around the rim, scallions, sesame oil. Done in 90 seconds.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
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- The pieces match: weighed, or judged against each other rather than by dividing the mass by eye, so that no piece is half again the size of its neighbour.
- Surfaces are smooth and unbroken with no cracks, tears, or dry patches, and the seams are sealed and sitting underneath.
- The shape is defined and it holds while the tray waits: it has not slumped, spread, or relaxed back out of its form.
- Nothing is trapped that should not be: no air pocket where filling should be, no filling breaking through the surface, and no excess flour greying the outside.
- They finish together in the heat: no piece done while another is still raw, which is the only test that the first mark was met.
Where it goes wrong The dough was worked past its point or shaped without a rest, so it fought back: the pieces spring out of shape on the tray and bake tight, uneven, and torn along the surface.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Albariño
- Also Right
- Champagne
- From the Taps
- Pilsner or witbier
- Zero-Proof
- White grape & tonic
Shellfish sweetness meets acid, salinity, and bubbles, precision instruments for delicate meat.
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