Simple Pork Fried Rice is a brilliant dish that’s jammed with flavours and textures. This recipe can use raw pork or leftover cooked pork, you just cook the carrot and spring onion and then add the pork to thoroughly warm through. One essential part for me is the toasted sesame oil. I use it to cook the egg and a light drizzle when warming through as the flavour is immense.
There are lots of version of this dish, chicken, seafood, beef, vegetable and so on. As with so many Chinese dishes, Simple Pork Fried Rice can be the main dish or a side dish.
As with many other rice dishes, you can add what you want to it to make it yours. It be honey for sweetness, soy sauce for bitterness, oyster sauce and the list goes on. However, its nots just sauces and condiments that can be added. Try mange tout, broccoli, carrot, mushrooms and so munch more. I often look in my fridge and include what ever is in there and often use left overs.
Once you discover the ease and amazing flavour of this dish, you must try its close cousins. These include Chicken Fried Rice, Shrimp Fried Rice and Beef Fried Rice.
Simple Pork Fried Rice
Ingredients
- 225 g pork diced
- 175 g cooked rice cold
- 2 large spring onions scallion/sliced
- 32 g carrot chop
- 1 large egg free range
- ½ tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 36 g frozen peas
- 1 large red chilli sliced
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp Chinese 5 spice
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
Instructions
- Add the unsalted butter to a medium/large frying pan and place over a medium heat.1 tbsp unsalted butter
- When the butter has melted, add the pork, spring onions and carrot and cook until the pork is thoroughly cooked. Normally about 8 – 10 minutes.225 g pork, 2 large spring onions, 32 g carrot
- When cooked pour into a warmed bowl until needed.
- Place the frying pan back on the heat and add the toasted sesame oil and the beaten egg and stir/whisk until scrambled.½ tbsp toasted sesame oil, 1 large egg
- Add the pork, onion and carrots back to the pan and stir together.
- Add the cooked rice with the frozen peas, red chilli, soy sauce, ground ginger, five spice and along to warm thoroughly. Again about 8 – 10 minutes. I also add a little drizzle of toasted sesame oil to the dish, but this bit is optional.175 g cooked rice, 36 g frozen peas, ¼ tsp ground ginger, 1/8 tsp Chinese 5 spice, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 large red chilli
- Stir frequently to make sure nothing is sticking.
- Once everything is lovely and hot, divide into warm bowls or serving dish.
- Serve Immediately.
