Recipe: Perfect 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice

'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice. I cooked a refrigerator clean-out fried rice. I cooked a refrigerator clean-out fried rice. I don't know about you, but it's been pretty low-key around these parts.

Fried rice is a great dumping ground for random ingredients lying around your kitchen. And guess what — all those random ingredients will come together and do wonderful things. Whenever I make rice with my Zoujirushi, it tastes amazing! You can have 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice

1. Prepare of Cold/Leftover cooked rice.
2. You need of (equal to)=.
3. It's of Chopped/Diced raw vegetables/left overs.
4. You need of Olive oil or butter.
5. You need of Minced garlic.
6. You need of Ginger.
7. It's of Sesame oil.
8. Prepare of Tamari/Soy sauce.

However, if I put it in a Tupperware in the fridge, it almost immediately gets dry and no longer fluffy. Instead of putting mine in the fridge, I measure it out by the cup and store it in ziplock bags in the freezer (squeeze any extra air out of the. I love to cook Asian-inspired dishes so a rice cooker is much needed in our household. But for the last two years I've made pancetta fried rice and quinoa fried rice so I went a different route using Spam.

'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice step by step

1. If you do not have leftover rice, cook some rice in a yummy vegetable, chicken or beef stock at least 2 hours before preparing meal - the key is having enough rice to equal the amount of veggies you are using. Be sure rice is cooked and cold, and all veggies are chopped/diced prior to cooking..
2. Heat olive oil or butter in a saute pan / wok (pan large enough for rice and veggies to be stirred).
3. Add garlic, cook for a minute or 2..
4. Add veggies, 1 at a time, in order of desired cooking time (example: 1st carrots for 3-5min, then onion, then broccoli, then water chestnuts, then spinach).
5. Stir in rice, a couple dashes of ginger, sesame oil and tamari sauce (to taste). Stir fry for about 5min, then remove from heat and enjoy!.
6. Any veggie combo will work, here is some inspiration: corn, peas, pea pods, sugar snaps, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, onion, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, waterchestnuts, eggplant, tomato, sweet potato, zucchini - add left over shrimp, chicken, pork, beef... anything goes!!! Even bacon!.

I know that some people have HUGE aversions to canned. Growing up, having fried rice for dinner was synonymous with "fridge clean-out day," meaning that any leftover vegetables and proteins from the night-or week-before were on their way to the wok. Those leftovers might be pieces of Chinese roast pork, bits of leftover chicken and baby bok choy, gai lan. The key is to add what you like - basically just clean out the fridge. If you love mushrooms, add a bunch.

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