The first time I tried to make fried rice, I enlisted my mom's help. As some one who had cooked the dish many times, I figured she was a safe bet for the assist. Not really the case! We tried to use brown rice, which I am generally a fan of, but for some reason mom insisted we didn't need to cook it first. Bad idea!!!! I will say this, the end result tasted pretty awesome, but the crunch of undercooked rice kind of killed it for me. Sorry mom.
Round two involves me and co-chef Saturday Morning throwing stuff into a skillet with pre-cooked white rice. This attempt was far more edible! We tried to pull off the recipe listed on the Secret Recipe Blog for Benihana's fried rice, but we were missing a few items and ended up creating our own kitchen concoction. Kitchen sorcery at its best! We threw in ginger, sesame seeds, fresh garlic and garlic salt, pepper, egg, chives, soy sauce, and some left over chicken. It came out much like we had hoped. For next time, and I am sure there will be a next time, we'll try using onions and a ginger-sesame dressing to kick it up a little. Either way, we had a nice steamy dinner for pretty cheap!
Again no pictures, but that's just because I forgot! I am in search of recipes for next week. Hopefully I will have a little more time as this week's run was literally thrown together!
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