how to cook fried rice with leftovers

How to Cook Fried Rice with Leftovers (video)

Do you want to learn how to cook fried rice? In my opinion, fried rice is the perfect food. It’s a good combination of protein, vegetables, and carbohydrates. The best part about fried rice is that it is so easy to make. You can add anything you want into it and it usually tastes really good. Plus if you have leftovers, you can add your leftovers to your fried rice. Here is how to cook fried rice.

How to Cook Fried Rice with Leftover Video

How to Cook Fried Rice with Leftovers

Step 1: Check your fridge for leftovers

Leftovers like rotisserie chicken, hotdogs, ham, and sausages are easy protein to add to your fried rice.

Step 2: Add your aromatics

Add at least one aromatic to your fried rice. You can add onion or garlic. If you don’t have fresh onion and garlic at home, you can easily substitute with garlic powder or onion powder.

Step 3: Add your protein

I added leftover kielbasa to my fried rice. 

Leftover Kielbasa for fried rice
Leftover Kielbasa for fried rice

Step 4: Add scrambled eggs

Eggs are an easy way to add protein to your fried rice.

Step 5: Add vegetables

Frozen peas, carrots, and corn are great to add to your fried rice. 

Frozen Vegetables
Frozen Vegetables for Fried Rice

Step 6: Add cooked rice

Leftover rice is ideal for fried rice. But if you don’t have leftover rice, freshly cooked rice will do. 

Cooked White Rice
Cooked White Rice

Step 7: Add Soy sauce

Drizzle some soy sauce on the rice. Add salt to your fried rice. It’s easy to under season fried rice, the trick is to keep tasting as you cook. Then adjust soy sauce and salt levels accordingly.

Add Soy Sauce and Salt to Rice
Add Soy Sauce and Salt to Rice

Step 8: Mix all the ingredients together

Mix all the ingredients together and you have fried rice! I suggest cooking each ingredient separately first and then I mixed it all together. It’s easier to do it this way because the cooking times of various ingredients don’t match up.

cook fried rice at home with leftovers
Fried Rice

 

Step 9: Serve and Enjoy

Fried rice is a quick and easy meal to make a home. The best part is you are using leftovers to cook your fried rice.

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