Fried Rice Paradise....

Preparation Time: 20 mins (excluding cooking the rice)

Cooking Time: 30 - 40 mins

Serving for 2

Ingredients

3 Bowls of Rice (Preferably cooked and left overnight)
3 Shallots
1 Garlic
3 Tbsp of Cooking Oil
1 tsp of Salt
1 tsp of Light Soy Sauce
1 tsp of Sesame Oil
50g of Ham Luncheon Meat or Ham
5 Large Prawns
1 Stalk of Spring Onions (Optional)
Pepper for taste
2 Large Eggs

Preparation of Rice
1. Beat the eggs with 1/2 tsp of Light Soy Sauce.
2. Mix the eggs with the rice.

Preparation of Prawns
1. De-shell the prawns and cut it in large chunks.
2. Wash the prawns with 1/2 tsp of salt.

Method
1. Cut the shallots and garlic in slices.
2. Cut the spring onions.
3. Cut the Ham Lucheon Meat/Ham in chunks.
4. Heat the wok with 1 Tbsp of oil. Add the shallot, garlic and stir fry till lightly brown. Remove the shallots and garlic for garnishing before serving.
5. Add 1 Tbsp of oil with prawns, lucheon meat/ham and stir fry for 2 mins.
6. Add 1 Tbsp of oil with rice and stir fry till the rice is fluffy and light.
7. Add 1/2 tsp of salt and light soy sauce and stir fry for another 1 min.
8. Add sesame oil and pepper and stir fry for another 1 min.
9. Add the spring onions before serving.

Alternative method to coat every rice grain with egg:

1. Add egg mixture in wok and rice. Stir fry quickly to ensure each rice is coated with egg mixture.

Yam Rice

30 minutes of preparation and cooking time

This serving is for 2 - 3

Ingredients

2 cups of rice
3 shallots
1 garlic
100 g dried shrimp
100 g prawns
200 g lean pork (optional)
1 yam about 200 g (taste excellent if u could get it imported from Thailand)
50 g dried shitake mushroom
10 g fried peanuts (optional)
1 dried scallop
1 tsp salt
Cooking oil
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp 5 spice powder
1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce


Method

1. Cut the yam in cubes and marinate the yam with the 5 spice powder for 10 minutes. Deep fried the yam.
2. Wash the rice and cook it in a rice cooker. Once cooked, transfer the rice in a container to let it cool.
3. Fry the shallots with the garlic till brown. Remove the fried shallot and garlic for garnishing later. Leave the oil in the wok to fry the dried shrimp, mushroom and scallop.
4. Add the lean pork and prawn and fry about 5 minutes. Add light soy sauce in the mixture. Remove the dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.
5. Add the rice in the wok and if required add a little oil to fry the rice.
6. Add salt and dark soy sauce on the rice and fry for about 10 minutes.
7. Add the yam with the mixture of dried shrimp, mushroom, scallop, lean pork and prawn.
8. Fry till there is a nice aroma, add sesame oil to enhance the fragrance.
9. Add the fried shallot and garlic to garnish.
10. It is ready to serve, optional to add some fried peanuts if you like.

....... Next coming up with more recipes from Mum :o)