Easy Egg Fried Rice

cheap, quick, easy, variable to suit taste

Ingredients

• Rice, Stock Cube, Bacon (optional), Mushrooms (Optional), Onion (optional), Peas, (optional), Egg, Veg. Oil, salt, pepper.

Instructions

STEP 1:

Boil one cup of rice (easy cook is probably better) with half a stock cube (I use chicken most of the time but it works well with ham).

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

While thats happening, beat one small egg in a cup,

STEP 4:

chop 2 hand fulls of mushrooms into small chunks,

STEP 5:

Cut as many bits of bacon as you like into strips (3’s usually plenty I think),

STEP 6:

And dice one small onion.

STEP 7:

Gently pan fry mushrooms, onion and bacon.

STEP 8:

STEP 9:

After you’ve drained the rice, don’t add it back to the pot just yet. Mix a tin of drained peas into the rice (sweetcorn also works well if you use the ham stock cube).

STEP 10:

STEP 11:

Transfer everything from the frying pan into the pot with roughly 1 tbl sp of the oil.

STEP 12:

Add the rice and move it all down to one side of the pot – return to a medium heat.

STEP 13:

Using a fork to mix, slowly pour the eggs in bit by bit, working it into the rice slowly.

STEP 14:

STEP 15:

More stock can be added if needed as well as salt and pepper to taste.

STEP 16:

One you have all the egg worked in, High heat for one two minutes while mixing vigorously.

STEP 17:

STEP 18:

There you have it tasty egg fried rice.

STEP 19:

I’ve tried this with many variations – you can add almost any flavours you fancy.