Chinese-Style Fried Rice
The egg, a beautiful spherical embryo of protein. One of the first ingredients that homecooks, chefs, and tired college students learn how to cook. the antithesis to both the beginning of life, and the beginning of a journey in cooking.
With the many ways one may be able to cook an egg, the mastery on boiling a soft boiled egg is one of the harder skills to learn from the get go. To learn to bring the yolk to that perfect creamy consistency while not breaking its structural integrity or leaving it too raw to the point where
you can still see the transparent membrane.
Ingredients
– 200 Grams of Chicken
– 2 Tablespoons of Sugar
– 5 Tablespoons of Cornstarch
– 2 Teaspoon of Pepper
– 1/5 Cup Soy Sauce
– 1/5 Cup water
– 1 Teaspoon of fish sauce
– 1 Tablespoon of cooking oil
– 2 Cups of old rice
– 1 Leek Stalk
– 1/3 Cup of canned corn
– Dash of MSG
– 2 Eggs
Steps Summarized
– Chop the chicken into cubes
– Create the marinade
– Let the chicken soak in the marinade for 10-15mins
– Add the 3 tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the marinade into a batter
– Fry until golden brown
Step By Step
Prep up your meat and debone the breast. Chop it up into bite sized cubes and place it in a bowl.
Prep up the marinade by mixing all the other ingredients together, adding in the dry ingredients first, the 2 spoons of cornstarch, sugar, and pepper, then following up with the wet ingredients, the soy sauce, fish sauce, water, and oil.
Mix it all together until it reaches a light brown color, and let it sit for 10-15 mins.
Now on to cooking, once the marinade has set, oil up that pan and bring the heat up to medium. While that is heating up, add in the 3 other tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the marinade into a watery batter.
Plop in the chicken let it sit and cook for a minute to fully bond the cornstarch marinade onto the meat so that it wont breakdown when you start to flip and stir up the chicken around during frying.
Cook until the chicken is a nice light brown – golden brown and set it aside.
Crack your 2 eggs, quickly scramble them, and set them aside as well. Be sure not to fully cook them because they’ll be added back into the pan once the rice is prepped.
With your day old rice, plop that into the pan and add in the corn. Cook them up an mix them until they’re nice and soft.
Add in some seasonings, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, 2 table spoons of soy sauce, and the secret dish to cooking, good ol’ msg. Cook and mix until homogenized.
With that all done, we can add back in the chicken and egg and mix them up in the pan all together.
Finally, chop up your leeks and add them into the dish. let it finish up cooking and youre good to go.