The first step of oiling your cooking pan is to season the cooking pan, which lubricates the surface and bringing the oil to the smoking point to ensure there is no water on it.
Then cool oil is added to bring down the temperature of the cooking pan which also helps in prevent the rice from sticking to the pan.
Chilled rice is used instead of hot rice because rice contains starch, starch when cooked at high heat will stick together very easily or immediately.
By start cooking with cool oil, chilled rice, and a completely dry pan, the outer layer of rice is sort of like slowly sealed before the starch could stick and lumping the rice together.
Prep Time 5 minutesmins
Cook Time 15 minutesmins
Total Time 20 minutesmins
Course Breakfast, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Chinese
Difficulty Medium
Servings 2people
Ingredients
Regular Fried Rice
1.5BowlPlain Rice(chilled)
1nosEgg
1tbspCooking Oil
to tasteSalt
to tastePepper
Golden Fried Rice
1.5bowlPlain Rice(chilled)
2nosEgg Yolk
1tbspCooking Oil
to tasteSalt
to tastePepper
Instructions
Regular Fried Rice - Preparation
Wash 1 cup of rice with water and cook with a rice cooker.
Once done, lightly whisk the rice with fork or chopstick to loosen it and let it chill to room temperature.
Prepare the egg in a container prior to cooking.
Regular Fried Rice - Cooking
Lightly grease the top of your pan/wok with cooking oil.
Preheat the oil until smoking point.
Once the oil reaches the smoking point, add 1 tbsp of cooking oil and then add the egg in.
Scramble the egg to pieces.
Add in chilled rice and thoroughly stir-fry.
Season with salt and pepper and continue stir-frying as you use your spatula to press and break off any lumpy rice.
Stir-fry until rice begins to jump. Remove from heat into a plate and serve.
Golden Fried Rice - Preparation
Wash 1 cup of rice with water and cook with a rice cooker.
Once done, lightly whisk the rice with fork or chopstick to loosen it and let it chill to room temperature.
Separate the egg white and yolk in two different containers prior to cooking. Keep egg white for other uses.
Golden Fried Rice - Cooking
Lightly grease the top of your pan/wok with cooking oil.
Preheat the oil until smoking point.
Once the oil reaches the smoking point, add 1 tbsp of cooking oil and then add the chilled rice in.
Thoroughly stir-fry the rice and then add the egg yolk to the rice.
Stir-fry the rice and egg yolk as you mix them together evenly.
Season with salt and pepper and continue stir-frying as you use your spatula to press and break off any lumpy rice.
Stir-fry until rice begins to jump. Remove from heat into a plate and serve.