Bacon Fried Rice
Bacon fried rice has bits of crispy bacon, mixed with soft fluffy eggs, and aromatic fried rice. Easy, simple, but most importantly, it's delicious!
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 3-4 strips bacon
- 1-2 green onions
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp light soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2-3 shallots
- 1 tsp white granulated sugar
- 350-400 grams cooked overnight white long-grain jasmine rice
Instructions
- Chop your green onions into small pieces using a kitchen knife or cleaver. Separate the dark green parts and light green/white parts. Once done, set aside.
- Next, we’re going to mince 3 cloves of garlic and 2-3 cloves of shallots.
- Afterwards, we’re going to slice the bacon into small strips.
- Next up, we’re going to crack 2 eggs into a small bowl and mix them well together.
- Now, in a heated wok, add in about 2 Tbsp of cooking oil and then add in your eggs and fry them over the wok, making sure to break the eggs into smaller pieces. Once your eggs are about 80-90% cooked, transfer the eggs out of the wok.
- Now add in another 1 Tbsp of cooking oil to the wok and then fry your bacon over the wok until the bacon becomes golden brown and crispy. Once done, remove the bacon and also drain out the bacon fat. Then give your wok a quick wash to remove any burnt or dark bacon bits left behind.
- This bacon oil will provide a ton of flavour to our fried rice.
- Now, pour in about a tablespoon of the bacon fat back into the wok and heat it up over medium-low heat. Once the wok is hot enough, add in your minced garlic and shallots from earlier and stir-fry this for about 20-30 seconds until you can smell the garlic and shallots becoming aromatic.
- Then we’ll add the white parts of our chopped green onions onto the wok and cook this for another 10-20 seconds, followed by adding in our cooked leftover rice.
- Make sure that you mix everything well so that the bacon flavour is evenly distributed throughout the rice. We’re going to stir-fry the rice for 3-4 minutes. Try not to let the rice clump up together, and also use your spatula to press down into the rice to really heat it up in the wok and remove excess moisture.
- Now, add in our cooked bacon from earlier and mix everything well together. Continue cooking the rice until you start to hear the rice “crackle and pop”.
- Next, add in your eggs from earlier. Break up the eggs into smaller pieces and mix well with the rice.
- Then add in 1 tsp of soy sauce, 1 tsp of white sugar, and 1/2 tsp of black pepper. Stir-fry and mix everything well together.
- Finally, add in the green parts of your chopped green onion from earlier. Give it a quick few tosses in the wok and then transfer the fried rice dish over to a bowl or plate and serve.
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Notes
For the best texture, it is highly recommended to use overnight cooked leftover rice.
Try to separate the rice when stir-frying it on the wok. The rice is nearly done when you start hearing “popping” and “cracking sounds” and the rice is separated and no longer clumped together.
You can reduce the amount of bacon fat left over from frying the bacon if you want to cut down on calories, however you should leave at least a little bit of the bacon oil as that adds a lot of flavor to the fried rice.