Easy Fried Rice Recipe - How to Make Homemade Fried Rice! (2024)

This Easy Fried Ricerecipe is perfect for weeknight dinners when you want something tasty, fast, and filling for the whole family! It comes together in a flash and is full of good protein, grains, veggies, and the delicious flavors of soy sauce, garlic, and onion for a quick and delicious dinner!

Do you love fried rice as much as we do?! We don’t happen to live close to much of anything — at all — so take-out dinners are few and far between. But sometimes the flavors and ease of take-out come calling my name, and this is the only recipe I turn to. Some othe take-out type recipes you might like are Easy Korean Ground Beef and Rice , Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry and Orange Chicken with Stir-Fry Veggies . This recipe is absolutely delicious and takes less than a half-hour to throw together for a simple, satisfying meal for the whole family.

Plus, it’s one of those flexible recipes that you can adjust depending on your mood or what you have in the house! Don’t have ham? Use cooked chicken or shrimp instead! Play with the seasoning levels until it’s just how you like it. Throw in really any veggie you love, and it’ll be great! A little broccoli, bell pepper, or tomato would be divine.

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Why You’ll Love this Recipe:

• Easy to make
• Fast Recipe
• You can make it with literally whatever you have on hand
• Delicious and a crowd pleaser
• It’s a flexible recipe and you can even leave ingredients out and let your family add what they want! Check here for some more advice on feeding picky kids!

Ingredients:

• Light oil: for scrambling the eggs and sautéing the rice, veggies and protein.
• Eggs: you scramble these and then add them into the rice mix at the end. Don’t skip them! It gives it that traditional fried rice egg bite and adds a little extra protein.
• Cooked rice: leftover rice is better than fresh rice in my opinion. It doesn’t clump together as much as fresh rice, probably because leftovers are a little more dried out than freshly cooked rice. But both will taste good.
• Diced ham: cooked! This will add a lovely salty protein and added flavor to the mix.
• Peas and carrots: for a little veggie action, and because they’re the easiest vegetable ever to throw into a stir fry.
• Soy sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper: this will give the fried rice a beautiful Asian flavor thanks to the soy sauce, and make all the other flavors explode. Simple seasonings go a long way with fried rice.

See recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities

Tips for the Best Fried Rice

• It takes roughly 2 cups of uncooked rice to make 5 cups of cooked rice.
• I prefer using leftover rice but I have made fried rice with fresh cooked rice many times, too. The texture is just a bit different. The leftover rice doesn’t clump together as much as the freshly cooked rice; they taste the same, though. Leftover rice will produce an end result most like take-out fried rice.
• The amounts/ratios of each ingredient can be adjusted to personal taste; just adjust the soy sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt to taste.
• Set aside the eggs after cooking them. That way they don’t overcook as you heat up everything else, and you can just fold them in at the end.

Variation Ideas

You can add all kinds of various produce and protein to fried rice! Try experimenting with:

• Bell peppers
• Jalapenos
• Chopped onion
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Bok choy
• Brussels sprouts
• Mushrooms
• Pineapple
• Chicken
• Shrimp
• Beef
• Pork
• Bacon

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