Classic Chicken Fried Rice

Classic Chicken Fried Rice is a gluten free and dairy free main course. For $1.18 per serving, this recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 15g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 350 calories. This recipe serves 6. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 35 minutes. 596 people found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. It is brought to you by The Woks of Life. Head to the store and pick up shaoxing wine, bell pepper, mung bean sprouts, and a few other things to make it today. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of Chinese food. With a spoonacular score of 86%, this dish is great. Similar recipes include Classic Chicken Fried Rice, Classic Fried Rice, and Classic Fried Rice (Five Minutes!).

Servings: 6

Preparation duration: 25 minutes

Cooking duration: 10 minutes

 

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons canola oil, divided

1 large chicken breast, diced into ½-inch cubes

5 cups cooked rice

1 teaspoon cornstarch

2 eggs, beaten

1 tablespoon regular or light soy sauce

1 cup fresh mung bean sprouts

1 teaspoon oil

1 medium onion, diced

1 scallion, chopped

1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

1 tablespoon shaoxing wine

1 teaspoon soy sauce

1 teaspoon dark soy sauce

¼ teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon hot water

white pepper, to taste

Equipment:

bowl

wok

spatula

Cooking instruction summary:

Combine the chicken and marinade ingredients and set aside while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.Next, combine the hot water, sugar, soy sauces and white pepper in a small bowl. This is the sauce that youll be adding to the rice, and its much easier to have it combined and ready to go before you start cooking. If you have questions about light and dark soy sauce, be sure to check out our Chinese sauces, vinegar, and oils ingredient page.Take your cooked rice and fluff it with a fork or with your hands (you can rinse your hands in cold water if the rice starts sticking to them). If you are using cold leftover rice, try to break up the clumps as best as possible.Heat the wok over medium high heat and add 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the eggs and scramble them until just done. You can even start scooping them up when they look like they are almost done and set aside. They will continue to cook in the bowl and you will cook them again in the rice. I'm only harping on this because you dont want dried egg bits in your chicken fried rice!Heat the wok until just smoking and spread another tablespoon oil around your wok. Sear the marinated chicken in one layer for 20 seconds. Stir-fry the chicken until about 80% done. Remove the chicken to your marinade bowl and set aside.With the wok over medium high heat, add another tablespoon of oil and saut the onions until translucent. Add the rice, and use your metal spatula to flatten out and break up any large clumps. If the rice is cold from the refrigerator, continue stir-frying until the rice is warmed up, which will take about 5 minutes. Sprinkling just a little water on large clumps of rice will help break them up more easily. If the rice was made fresh, cooking time will be faster. Just make sure that the rice isn't too wetwhich will make frying it difficult.Once the rice is warmed (very important or the sauce will not mix as well and the color of the rice will not be as uniform), add the sauce mixture and mix with a scooping motion until the rice is evenly coated with sauce. You will have to break up any remaining clumps of rice with the spatula as best as possible, but no need to be obsessive. The rice should be hot by this time. Now add the chicken and any juices from the bowl you set aside earlier and stir fry for another minute.Add the eggs, bean sprouts, and scallions, and continue stir-frying the rice for another 30 seconds. Then gather all of the rice into the middle of the wok to let the sides of the wok heat up. After about 20 seconds, spread the Shaoxing wine around the perimeter of the wok and stir-fry for another 20 seconds. This step gives you a little of that extra "wok hay" that you taste when you get fried rice from a good Chinese restaurant.

 

Step by step:


1. Combine the chicken and marinade ingredients and set aside while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.Next, combine the hot water, sugar, soy sauces and white pepper in a small bowl. This is the sauce that youll be adding to the rice, and its much easier to have it combined and ready to go before you start cooking. If you have questions about light and dark soy sauce, be sure to check out our Chinese sauces, vinegar, and oils ingredient page.Take your cooked rice and fluff it with a fork or with your hands (you can rinse your hands in cold water if the rice starts sticking to them). If you are using cold leftover rice, try to break up the clumps as best as possible.

2. Heat the wok over medium high heat and add 1 tablespoon of oil.

3. Add the eggs and scramble them until just done. You can even start scooping them up when they look like they are almost done and set aside. They will continue to cook in the bowl and you will cook them again in the rice. I'm only harping on this because you dont want dried egg bits in your chicken fried rice!

4. Heat the wok until just smoking and spread another tablespoon oil around your wok. Sear the marinated chicken in one layer for 20 seconds. Stir-fry the chicken until about 80% done.

5. Remove the chicken to your marinade bowl and set aside.With the wok over medium high heat, add another tablespoon of oil and saut the onions until translucent.

6. Add the rice, and use your metal spatula to flatten out and break up any large clumps. If the rice is cold from the refrigerator, continue stir-frying until the rice is warmed up, which will take about 5 minutes. Sprinkling just a little water on large clumps of rice will help break them up more easily. If the rice was made fresh, cooking time will be faster. Just make sure that the rice isn't too wetwhich will make frying it difficult.Once the rice is warmed (very important or the sauce will not mix as well and the color of the rice will not be as uniform), add the sauce mixture and mix with a scooping motion until the rice is evenly coated with sauce. You will have to break up any remaining clumps of rice with the spatula as best as possible, but no need to be obsessive. The rice should be hot by this time. Now add the chicken and any juices from the bowl you set aside earlier and stir fry for another minute.

7. Add the eggs, bean sprouts, and scallions, and continue stir-frying the rice for another 30 seconds. Then gather all of the rice into the middle of the wok to let the sides of the wok heat up. After about 20 seconds, spread the Shaoxing wine around the perimeter of the wok and stir-fry for another 20 seconds. This step gives you a little of that extra "wok hay" that you taste when you get fried rice from a good Chinese restaurant.


Nutrition Information:

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350k Calories
15g Protein
11g Total Fat
45g Carbs
19% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
350k
18%

Fat
11g
17%

  Saturated Fat
1g
9%

Carbohydrates
45g
15%

  Sugar
5g
6%

Cholesterol
78mg
26%

Sodium
350mg
15%

Alcohol
0.4g
2%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
15g
31%

Vitamin C
99mg
121%

Vitamin A
2447IU
49%

Manganese
0.8mg
40%

Selenium
26µg
38%

Vitamin B6
0.69mg
35%

Vitamin B3
5mg
28%

Phosphorus
206mg
21%

Vitamin E
2mg
19%

Vitamin K
19µg
18%

Vitamin B5
1mg
16%

Folate
62µg
16%

Vitamin B2
0.22mg
13%

Potassium
432mg
12%

Fiber
2g
11%

Magnesium
44mg
11%

Zinc
1mg
9%

Copper
0.17mg
8%

Vitamin B1
0.12mg
8%

Iron
1mg
7%

Calcium
37mg
4%

Vitamin B12
0.21µg
3%

Vitamin D
0.33µg
2%

covered percent of daily need
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