Sometimes the easiest recipe creates a very impressive dish; at least my husband was impressed.
I often get fried rice when I eat Chinese food. Most Chinese food I don't like, but I will eat fried rice with orange chicken or shrimp of some sort.
I actually saw a picture of this Egg Fried Rice on Facebook with the recipe and it caught my attention. I wrote down the ingredients and the amounts with plans to make it sometime.
"Sometime" came the very next day. I was given the choice to go out to get something to eat or come up with something to prepare for us. Normally I would have jumped at the chance to go out to eat (which we do way too much), but I thought about the fried rice recipe and went to work and made the recipe my own with a few shortcuts.
We buy precooked brown rice in a package that cooks for 90 seconds in the microwave at the grocery store, add black beans and shredded cheese and pretend we have gone to a nearby restaurant. I had a package and so I used it for the two cuts of rice.
I also had a bag of frozen mixed vegetables that I opened and removed a heaping 1/2 cup and steamed on the stove with a little water.
To make our dinner complete, I cooked a package of frozen breaded shrimp in the air fryer. Afterwards I truly felt we had been out to dinner as it all went together so easily.
EGG FRIED RICE
2 cups cooked rice
1/2 cup mixed vegetables
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons oil
minced garlic to taste
Add the oil to a large skillet and heat over medium heat. Add beaten egg and cook in the skillet,
breaking up into small pieces as it cooks.
Add the cooked rice and
the mixed vegetables.
Sprinkle with minced garlic and stir again.
Serve as a side dish with your entre.
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