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    Cool Chicken special fried rice

    I am always on the lookout for food that is easy to cook and takes less time to prepare as well. One of my current favourites is Chicken fried rice.



    Ingredients
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    125g chicken breast
    ASDA spring onions
    ASDA carrot strips
    ASDA small peppers
    Tomato
    Egg
    Peas
    Basmati rice OR Tilda packet rice ( £1 ) or Vetee packet rice ( £1 )

    First , chop the chicken into thin strips and fry lightly on a pan till light brown.
    On a separate pan, add a little bit of oil and let it heat. Chop a spring onion diagonally and add to the pan, together with a chopped tomato, carrot strips, chopped small peppers and peas. Fry for a few mins. and then crack in an egg and break it up. Fry all together and then add the chicken and a minute later add the rice.

    Add a few drops of soya sauce, red chilli powder, a little bit of salt and stir.

    Serve on a plate and enjoy.

    Prepearation to cooking time - 30-45 mins

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    thanks man, I'll try it tomorrow maybe. I might leave out the peas though, not a big fan.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Nope, can't do this recipe .... I only have Waitrose carrots, Waitrose onions and Waitrose peppers. I'll have to look for a recipe that uses those.



    Seriously though, it's pretty close to a recipe I've used, using rice previously cooked, and cooled. And yup, scrumptious.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    Nope, can't do this recipe .... I only have Waitrose carrots, Waitrose onions and Waitrose peppers. I'll have to look for a recipe that uses those.



    Seriously though, it's pretty close to a recipe I've used, using rice previously cooked, and cooled. And yup, scrumptious.
    If you use Waitrose stuff, it will taste like Chicken Super special fried rice.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Hmmm, I think a step has been missed, looks like raw rice goes in this... U might wanna cook it first ?
    Cheers, David



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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quite often do random fried rice things. Basically whatever is in the fridge + couple of eggs, stir until mostly cooked + random spice + Pre-cooked Rice = Win.
    Last edited by Dooms; 21-01-2014 at 04:45 PM.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by g8ina View Post
    Hmmm, I think a step has been missed, looks like raw rice goes in this... U might wanna cook it first ?
    Nope, Tilda or Vetee rice packets have pre-cooked rice.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    If you use Waitrose stuff, it will taste like Chicken Super special fried rice.
    Yup. This is a nice area, and we have middle-class, and upper middle class vegetables here.


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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    Nope, Tilda or Vetee rice packets have pre-cooked rice.
    Pre-cooked rice. Oh no, definitely can't mix that with upper class vegetables. That'll never do.

    But seriously, pre-cooked packets of rice? It's so fast and easy to cook. You can even do it the day before. In fact, usually if I do stir-fry rice, it's because I did a dish, like curry, with rice the day before. So, I cook double what I need, and use half. The other half, having served the curry and rice, I run briefly under cold water to stop cooking, and put aside to dry. The next day, once the chicken, veg etc is cooked, I bung in my left-over rice from yesterday, when you bung the packet in.

    As for cooking the rice, my favourite is the absorption method.

    Into a hot pan, put your measured quantity of rice (one cup per day, for us, so, two days =two cups), and whatever rice quantity you used, double that of boiling water. Pinch of salt, to taste. Cover, and simmer fast for 10 mins. Serve.

    To clarify, if cooking for one day, for two of us, 1 cup of rice, 2 cups (450ml) boiling water.

    If doing enough for leftover for the next day, 2 cups rice, 4 cups (900ml) boiling water.


    Edit - for variety, bung in some saffron with the water. Or a little turmeric. Or one of those, and peas and/or sweetcorn. Or, using veg stock or chicken stock instead of water. And so on.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Reheating rice.....

    Bacillus cereus[edit]Cooked rice can contain Bacillus cereus spores, which produce an emetic toxin when left at 4–60 °C (39–140 °F). When storing cooked rice for use the next day, rapid cooling is advised to reduce the risk of toxin production.[32] One of the enterotoxins produced by Bacillus cereus is heat-resistant; reheating contaminated rice kills the bacteria, but does not destroy the toxin already present.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    agreed on the health warning but also, pre cooked cold rice fries up SO much better than freshly cooked rice.

    The rapid cooling is the key. Cook, rinse in cold water, drain thoroughly then straight into fridge in covered dish.
    Cheers, David



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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by g8ina View Post
    agreed on the health warning but also, pre cooked cold rice fries up SO much better than freshly cooked rice.

    The rapid cooling is the key. Cook, rinse in cold water, drain thoroughly then straight into fridge in covered dish.
    This. I tend to just dish out whatever I'm eating then from the colander then let the rest sit under the cold tap for a minute or so then chuck it in the fridge before washing up. I tend to get rid of the carrots & peppers and add a tin of bamboo shoots/water chestnuts instead as well as a decent dollop of five spice. Or you can go with chilli, turmeric, ketjap manis and ginger for a reasonable imitation of nasi goreng.

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by hb904460 View Post
    Reheating rice.....
    I'd guess that's why the OP uses packet rice - It's designed to be reheated, usually in a microwave.
    But for a 30-45 minute meal, I dunno why you'd not cook the rice fresh on another hob. Only takes 10 minutes... ?

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Looks great, only one thing missing for me, Soy Sauce, that would ad an extra depth .
    You're a good example of why some animals eat their young

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by fazer View Post
    Looks great, only one thing missing for me, Soy Sauce, that would ad an extra depth .
    It's mentioned

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    Re: Chicken special fried rice

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    I'd guess that's why the OP uses packet rice - It's designed to be reheated, usually in a microwave.
    But for a 30-45 minute meal, I dunno why you'd not cook the rice fresh on another hob. Only takes 10 minutes... ?
    Because if you use hot, and still wet, rice to stir-fry it tends to go soggy.

    I take the point about health concerns BUT all it takes, IMHO, is to deal with the rice correctly. I didn't give the whole process in detail, but having cooked it, as I said, run it under cold water to stop the cooking process. Then spread it out to let it try. I use paper towels on a baking tray. Then, store it in the fridge, and for no more than 24 hours.

    The food poisoning risk is real, but provided you handle it properly, you should have no problems. And, Chinese friends have told me that this method, using reheated rice, is and always has been the standard method for cooking fried rice, and indeed, avoiding wasting the excess of boiled rice is how fried rice came about in the first place.

    Of all the health risks with food preparation, and there are a lot of them for the careless, and with a little care in handling it, I'm not unduly worried about this one.

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