What do you add to fried rice to make it more interesting?

Scrambled egg. Our maid in Japan added sliced hot dogs. She thought they were quite a delicacy. She also would add just a bit of sweet pickle relish. Sounds weird, but the sweet goes great with the other savory flavors in the mixture. Curry powder adds a whole different angle. Quick fried onions and carrots. I got a million of them. Fried rice is like a blank palette. You can create what ever your palate desires. Then make a pallet of it. I always wanted to use those 3 words in the same post.

PH

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Fried rice is like a blank palette.

Agreed. I'll mince up a little bacon and cook it, pouring off all the fat. Then I'll saute some garlic, ginger, and scallions in a tiny bit of peanut oil, then add some shrimp and meat (beef, pork, or chicken). Then I'll add room temperature cooked rice unclumped into as close to single grains as possible, stir-fry and add some toasted sesame seed oil and low salt soy sauce (which is loaded with salt). When hot and ready to serve, I'll stir in a beaten egg or two and serve.

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Fried rice is like a blank palette. You can create what ever your palate desires. Then make a pallet of it. I always wanted to use those 3 words in the same post.

PH

Quiet evening in the purple palace tonight?

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Originally posted by KSC02:

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
You can create what ever your palate desires. Then make a pallet of it. I always wanted to use those 3 words in the same post.

PH

Quiet evening in the purple palace tonight?

Roommates will do that to a man!

I turned pallid reading PH's post. Someday I hope to be able to say we palled around together, at least before the pallbearers come to get us. Maybe Paul from Stefania will join us if he can pull away from the winery for a paltrey few days.

Chateau Fombrauge anyone?

I knew I could count on you guys to offer some great ideas. And some humour, inevitably....

You are using jasmine rice from Thailand, China or Philippines and not Uncle Ben's, correct?

genetically modified medium grain rice is the way to go.

I do the green peas, toasted sesame oil and that spicy korean red sauce.

Once that red sauce goes in you can add, kimchi, oysters and pork belly.

Ummm, I'm in Guatemala boys, so rice options are limited. I'm using the best stuff I can get, bought at the best (possibly only) Chinese grocery (three 10 foot aisles) in town. Had some today for lunch (basic white rice, not fried) and found it tasty, FWIW.

a 28 oz bone in rib-eye steak. Preferablly grilled until it has a crust on the outside, but is just warm on the inside.

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Originally posted by thirsty man:
a 28 oz bone in rib-eye steak. Preferablly grilled until it has a crust on the outside, but is just warm on the inside.

on a bed of rice of course.

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Originally posted by bman:
Ummm, I'm in Guatemala boys, so rice options are limited. I'm using the best stuff I can get, bought at the best (possibly only) Chinese grocery (three 10 foot aisles) in town. Had some today for lunch (basic white rice, not fried) and found it tasty, FWIW.

in portugal they put Bacalhau, potatoe shreads and eggs.

guatemala

i'd do chicken/corn/tomatoes on a bed of rice, put some cheese on top and bake it for liek 10 minutes.

i had some great fried rice with ahi poke or just diced ahi tuna.
also portuguese suausage and spam

Thanks guys, you've given me some good ideas. I have lots of meat/fish options here (too many kinds of sausage to name) but was wondering about aromatic veggies or sauces.

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Originally posted by DoubleD:
You are using jasmine rice from Thailand, China or Philippines and not Uncle Ben's, correct?

Uncle Ben's is NOT rice.

PH

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Originally posted by bman:
Thanks guys, you've given me some good ideas. I have lots of meat/fish options here (too many kinds of sausage to name) but was wondering about aromatic veggies or sauces.

garlic, sticky rice (glutonous rice), soy, sugar stuffed in a crab.

THe possibilities are endless, what veggies you got?

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Fried rice is like a blank palette.

Agreed. I'll mince up a little bacon and cook it, pouring off all the fat. Then I'll saute some garlic, ginger, and scallions in a tiny bit of peanut oil, then add some shrimp and meat (beef, pork, or chicken). Then I'll add room temperature cooked rice unclumped into as close to single grains as possible, stir-fry and add some toasted sesame seed oil and low salt soy sauce (which is loaded with salt). When hot and ready to serve, I'll stir in a beaten egg or two and serve.

Leave a little bit of the bacon fat in there. Trust me.

PH

You can't really get it all out. To make up for a lack of fat for stir-frying, I add a little peanut oil and some toasted sesame seed oil near the end of frying for flavor.