To make baked fried rice, simply place raw rice, inventory, soy sauce and some different flavourings in a baking pan, give it a mixture then shove it within the oven. Out comes fluffy, seasoned fried rice that’s so good, you might by no means wok-toss fried rice ever once more!
(Effectively, perhaps not. Nothing beats the actual deal, in spite of everything. However this emergency model is glorious for the minimal effort required!)
Emergency baked fried rice
OK, you’re proper, this isn’t fried rice per se! It’s a baked rice. However I name it a baked fried rice as a result of it’s every little thing we love a couple of fried rice, with out the frying! It would prevent on all these nights once you’re scrambling for a fast facet dish that may go together with nearly every little thing and please everybody.
In contrast to the traditional approach fried rice is cooked, there’s no must plan forward and prepare dinner rice the day earlier than in order that it has time to dry out in a single day within the fridge. You don’t even want to cut something (howdy, frozen veg!).
Simply dump every little thing within the pan – raw rice, inventory, frozen pre-chopped greens, uncooked bacon – then whack it within the oven. There’s no must stir – the truth is, I forbid it, as a result of it makes the rice mushy!
And for all that effort, you’ll be rewarded with THIS ↓↓↓ (“this” being an enormous pan of fluffy seasoned fried rice that’s suffering from greens and oh wow, even the bacon is good and golden!!??)
Substances for baked fried rice
This is a superb recipe to customize and make your personal, with plenty of choices for altering up add-ins! Right here’s what I take advantage of on this baked fried rice recipe:
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Rice – Finest made with lengthy grain white rice as a result of it’s the least sticky. This implies you get that good, crumbly and fluffy fried rice texture with this “dump ‘n bake” cooking technique.
Different rice varieties that work:
→ Basmati rice: Has the identical fluffy texture however you get the basmati aroma (it’s not conventional with fried rice seasoning, however it’s somewhat good!)
→ Medium and brief grain white rice: Works completely however these rices are a bit stickier so don’t anticipate fairly the identical rice texture you see within the video (it would clump a little bit extra).
→ Jasmine rice: Scale back water by 1/4 cup (water to rice ratio is decrease, see right here for cooking plain jasmine rice).This recipe gained’t work as-written for the next: Brown rice, paella or risotto rice, wild rice, quinoa or different speciality rices. I’d want to determine particular liquid/rice ratios and bake occasions, which I’ve not accomplished!
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Inventory/broth – Rooster inventory will give a greater flavour (it’s not chicken-y as such, it has only a extra deeply seasoned flavour), however vegetable inventory works simply advantageous too. Whichever you utilize, ensure it’s low sodium in any other case the rice finally ends up a tad saltier than is good.
Don’t have liquid inventory? Use water plus inventory powder. Make up 2 cups in accordance with the inventory powder instructions and use per the recipe.
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Greens – As a result of that is conceived as a recipe for “dinner emergencies”, I’ve used frozen diced greens right here. Recent greens can be utilized, however you’ll want to extend the water by 1/4 cup as a result of the liquid to rice ratio components within the water that comes off and from the frozen greens (a stunning quantity!).
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Garlic – I can’t ever think about making any kind of fried rice with out garlic. And that features an emergency baked model!
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Bacon or ham – Identical to we do in wok tossed fried rice! Right here, it’s scattered throughout the floor and it provides flavour into the inventory because it cooks.
There’s no must prepare dinner it beforehand, it would brown on the finish after we end the rice off uncovered within the oven.
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Soy sauce – I’ve used gentle soy sauce right here which provides seasoning with out discolouring the rice an excessive amount of. All goal soy sauce will work simply advantageous too.
Darkish soy sauce – It’s far more intense in flavour so use half the amount and be ready in your rice to be a lot browner in color.
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Chinese language cooking wine (Shaoxing wine) – provides umami / depth of flavour which is essential for this technique of cooking that skips the same old “sauté garlic and onion” and many others.
Finest substitute – Dry sherry, adopted by cooking sake, adopted by mirin (although rice shall be a contact sweeter).
Non alcoholic choice – Skip the wine and add an additional 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce PLUS add 30g / 2 tbsp of unsalted butter with the sesame (butter compensates for lack of flavour from skipping the cooking wine). It’s not the identical in any respect, however equally scrumptious!
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Pepper – For a contact of heat. White pepper is usually used for fried rice as a result of you possibly can’t see it. Substitute with black pepper.
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Sesame oil & inexperienced onion – For ending. We add sesame oil on the finish to protect the flavour, and the inexperienced onion is tossed by way of on the finish for successful of freshness and color.
How you can make baked fried rice
Are you able to see how simple it’s??
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Put the raw rice into the baking pan;
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Add every little thing else besides the bacon;
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Give it a mixture, then scatter the bacon throughout the floor (as a result of we wish it to get some color after we bake it uncovered);
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Cowl with foil and bake 40 minutes at 200°C / 390°F (180°C fan);
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Take away foil and bake for an extra quarter-hour. This offers the bacon some good color;
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Stand for 10 minutes. Then add sesame oil and inexperienced onion, fluff with a fork then serve!
Right here’s a pleasant shut up for you so you possibly can see how the grains are fluffy and separated, and the way the bacon bits are beautiful and golden.
No mushy, overcooked rice in sight!
What to serve with baked fried rice
Serve to accompany dishes you’ll with fried rice, which as of late is much and past simply Asian meals! Attempt it with the Mushroom Stuffed Rooster I shared a few weeks in the past, or as a facet for a fillet of seasoned pan fried fish.
Pair it with one thing sticky like this Chilli Rooster, Honey Garlic Rooster or a tropical Hawaiian Huli-Huli hen. For vegetarian choices, skip the bacon and as a substitute, pile over juicy and buttery garlic mushrooms or a medley of marinated grilled greens.
The foundations are: there are not any guidelines! This can be a rice facet that may go together with nearly something, Asian or not! – Nagi x
PS. I simply had a fleeting thought. Should you’d like to show this right into a meal, attempting stirring by way of an enormous handful of child spinach or chopped English spinach when fluffing it up on the finish. By upping the veg on this, it will be nice as a meal!
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Emergency “Dump ‘n Bake” Fried Rice
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook dinner: 50 minutes
Rice, Facet Dish
Asian
Servings5 – 6
Faucet or hover to scale
Directions
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Preheat oven to 200°C / 390°F (180°C fan).
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Combine substances in baking dish: Place all Baked Fried Rice substances besides bacon in a baking dish (~22 x 32cm / 9 x 13″). Stir, then unfold rice evenly throughout pan.
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Prime with bacon: Scatter bacon throughout floor.
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Bake lined 40 min: Cowl with foil. Bake 40 minutes.
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Bake uncovered 15 min: Take away foil. Bake uncovered quarter-hour – this can color the bacon. Liquid needs to be absorbed, tilt to examine.
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Relaxation 10 min: Cowl loosely with foil, stand for 10 minutes.
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Fluff: Add inexperienced onion and sesame oil. Fluff rice with fork, marvel at how completely cooked the rice grains are. Serve!
Recipe Notes:
1. Rice varieties – Finest made with lengthy grain rice as a result of it’s the least sticky so that you get that good crumbly, fluffy fried rice texture with this “dump ‘n bake” cooking technique. Different rice varieties that work:
- Basmati rice – identical fluffy texture however you get the basmati aroma (it’s not conventional with fried rice seasoning, however it’s somewhat good!)
- Medium and brief grain white rice – works completely however the rice is a bit stickier (that’s the best way it’s) so don’t anticipate the identical rice texture you see within the video (it would clump a little bit extra).
- Jasmine rice – cut back water by 1/4 cup (water to rice ratio is decrease, see right here for cooking plain jasmine rice).
Recipe gained’t work as written for: brown rice, paella or risotto rice, wild rice, quinoa or different speciality rices. I’d want to determine liquid/rice ratios and bake occasions.
No must rinse rice first except you’re involved about rice cleanliness (rice in packets at grocery shops needs to be advantageous, I by no means rinse). Should you rinse, cut back water by 2 tbsp.
2. Mild soy sauce – provides flavour and salt with out staining the rice. Extraordinary all goal soy may also be used. Don’t use darkish soy sauce – flavour is simply too sturdy and sauce shall be very darkish. See right here for extra details about completely different soy sauces.
3. Chinese language cooking wine – provides umami / depth of flavour which is essential for this technique of cooking that skips the same old “sauté garlic and onion” and many others.
Finest substitute – Dry sherry, adopted by cooking sake, then mirin (although rice shall be a contact sweeter).
Non alcoholic sub – skip it and add an additional 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce PLUS add 30g / 2 tbsp of unsalted butter with the sesame (butter compensates for lack of flavour from skipping the cooking wine).
4. Recent veg – Should you use contemporary as a substitute of frozen veg, add 1/4 cup of water. Required as a result of frozen veg leech water as they prepare dinner which is factored into water/rice ratio on this dish.
- Carrots, peas, corn, onion – use in recipe as written.
- Cauliflower, broccoli, inexperienced beans, asparagus, zucchini, capsicum/bell peppers – add them 30 min into bake time.
I don’t suggest: eggplant, mushrooms.
5. Add in choices: Oh, the chances!
- Egg – Cook dinner individually and stir in when fluffing rice. Both scramble, or make ribbons (prepare dinner a skinny omelette utilizing 2 whisked eggs, roll it up like a cigar then finely slice)
- Cooked hen (or different cooked protein) – cube or shred, toss on prime of rice when resting (residual warmth will heat up), then combine by way of nicely fluffing rice.
- Uncooked prawns/shrimp – small ones. Once you take away the foil, scatter them throughout the floor, pop into oven for the final 15 min uncovered bake time.
6. Storage – Retains for 3 days within the fridge. Reheat utilizing microwave.
7. Diet per serving, assuming 5 servings.
Diet Info:
Energy: 454cal (23%)Carbohydrates: 64g (21%)Protein: 20g (40%)Fats: 13g (20%)Saturated Fats: 2g (13%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 6gMonounsaturated Fats: 4gSodium: 1016mg (44%)Potassium: 352mg (10%)Fiber: 7g (29%)Sugar: 1g (1%)Vitamin A: 5418IU (108%)Vitamin C: 9mg (11%)Calcium: 82mg (8%)Iron: 2mg (11%)
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