EASY Shrimp Fried Rice | How to Make Chinese Fried Rice | Chinese Take Out Style Fried Rice

to get started I will be using four cups of cooked long grain rice. I basically took my cup measure packed it in with rice and here we are four cups I'm going to spread out the rice on this baking sheet and allow it to come to room temperature you don't want this to be piping hot and place it in your freezer so you want it to cool off. And once it's cooled off I will set it in the freezer for around twenty to thirty minutes. Okay, the next ingredient I will be using is shrimp. Here I have a pound of shrimp this is cleaned and deveined medium sized shrimp I'm going to add salt to taste this is probably somewhere between a quarter teaspoon to a half teaspoon of salt. I'm also going to pepper to taste I'm using white pepper you can use black pepper if that's what you have. I'm probably adding a quarter teaspoon of this pepper and now I'm going to add two cloves of fresh minced garlic. I'm also going to be adding some chopped green onion. This is around one stalk of green onion. I chopped the green and the white of the onion. And I will also be adding a quarter teaspoon of chopped ginger. This is more like a paste. Um. If you have fresh ginger a quarter teaspoon maybe to a half teaspoon. But I'm only using a quarter teaspoon of this pastie chopped ginger that I have in a jar. And now I'm just going to give everything a good mix. And I'm going to let this set in the fridge and marinate for around thirty minutes and if you do not eat shrimp use the protein of your choice chicken is a good way to go. Just use a pound of ...uh...chicken breast and chop it up into chunks and season and marinate it the same way Okay. So the next ingredients are bean sprouts here I have around five ounces of bean sprouts or just a bunch and I'm also going to be using green onion and these are four stalks of green onion that I'm just going to chop up and when it comes to fried rice I'm pretty simple when it comes to veggies. You could also add some julienned carrot I know peas and carrots are a popular veggie that goes into fried rice personally I don't like it I just pretty much like bean sprouts and green onions But... again you do what you like this is just a basic recipe. Okay. And now I am going to use 1/4 cup of chicken broth and two and a half tablespoons of dark soy sauce if you do not have dark soy sauce you can use regular soy sauce. I just like using dark soy sauce because it really gives it that color I want when I'm making fried rice. And you could also lessen the amount of dark soy sauce that you use if you find two and a half tablespoons it's just too much salt or sodium scale back or use a low-sodium soy sauce. But I'm sticking with two and a half tablespoons Okay, so my rice is pretty much ready it has that day-old rice texture which is what you're looking for and you could actually use day-old rice but I didn't have any so this is the method I do which I think a lot of people do to get that texture of rice when you're about to fry rice I'd I'd also like to mention that if you've checked the description below this video I will place the ingredients and measurements there along with links to other recipe videos that I think you might like okay Okay so this rice is ready. It's the texture that I want so I'm ready to start frying this rice here I Here I have my pan preheating and I have around three tablespoons of cooking oil in the pan. And now I am going to start cooking my shrimp. I'm working with a medium heat. And I'm only going to sear this shrimp for around a minute on each side. Just to get the cooking process started it's not going to cook all the way through at this point because it's going to continue cooking while I add other ingredients to the pan and I do it this way because I don't want to overcook the shrimp. Rubbery shrimp is just tough to eat so this is why I do it this way. And if you are using for example chicken breast again you would cook the chicken breast probably all the way through I wouldn't hold that cooking chicken breast all the way through but shrimp cooks a lot faster so bear that in mind Okay so while the shrimp continues cooking I'd like to share a story with you. So one of my first memories of ever having American style Chinese food was with my Dad. And he would take us to this Chinese restaurant called Lee's Inn And it's in Houston Texas so for any of my Houston Texas subscribers or viewers leave a comment below and tell me if you remember Lee's Inn. I had to have been four. This was in the 80's by the way not to give my age away but I I really do remember having delicious food there and I think it closed down in the 90s if I'm not mistaken but anyways when I do cook American style Chinese at home. It does remind me of my dad and his love for Chinese food. Okay. So at this point I'm just creating a space in the pan and I'm going to add my bean sprouts. And again you can use the vegetables of your choice sometimes I like to add some julienne carrot in here as well and some diced onion but today I'm just going to keep it simple. So I'm going to saute those for a minute and then I'm going to start adding my rice Okay. So now that that is combined well I'm going to now add my soy and chicken broth mixture in to the pan. And I want to reiterate that if you find that two and a half tablespoons of dark soy sauce is just too much. You can scale back and maybe use one or two. And you could also substitute that with a low-sodium soy sauce. But one of the reasons that I like to use dark soy sauce is because it gives it that deep rich color that I look for in a fried rice instead of adding copious amounts of just the regular soy sauce so that's why I do that. And the addition of the chicken broth it's just another level of flavor that I like in my fried rice. And I'd like to add that I'm actually a bit weird when it comes to fried rice. I don't know why I do this. But I actually like to have a scoop of fried rice and a scoop of steamed rice and I mix it. I don't know you would think just scale back on the soy sauce but there's something about the combination of textures of a steamed rice and fried rice. I don't know. Does anybody else do that or am I just the only weirdo? [chuckles] Okay so I'm just going to continue frying and mixing this rice until it is combined well and I'd like to remind you that I am working with a medium high heat I don't go full high meat because and things will start burning at the bottom of the pan. Trust me I know because I've learnt a lot of food that way. Now I'm going to add the green onion again you can change the ratios of the fresh ingredients that I add in here for example if you want more bean sprouts add more bean sprouts and if you want more green onion add more. And again, I'm just going to give this a toss and I will say this I only used three tablespoons of oil and it probably didn't look like much in this large pan by the way this is a twelve inch pan but it does go a long way and it does get the job done. So once this is all combined I have one last ingredient that I will be adding and that is sesame oil And...actually the rice right now is great. It's good just the way it is but I do like to add a hint of sesame oil I will be adding an eyeballed guesstimate of two teaspoons of sesame oil And if you don't have sesame oil on hand Just leave it out it's not going to ruin this fried rice. It's just as delicious but it's just another layer of flavoring that I like to add to my rice So today I am making the shrimp fried rice to go along side my beef and broccoli recipe be on the lookout for that video. So my rice is done and we're ready for dinner. So I certainly hope you guys give this recipe a try. I hope you like it and thanks for watching (Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE and SHARE)

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Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 06 2018