Vannessa, the leader of the South Arm Community Centre cooking club, shared with us two recipes this week. Vannessa is originally from Hong Kong. She shared with us Hong Kong Style Fried Rice and a Bake Salmon recipe.
This is the recipe for the Hong Kong Style Fried Rice. Fried rice originates from China and is made typically from cold leftover rice and leftover ingredients. Most regions in China has their own way in making fried rice with the most well known from Fujian and Yanhzhou.
Ingredients
- 3 cups of rice, cooked and left overnight in the refrigerator
- 5 eggs
- a can of pineapple, cut into bite size pieces
- 1/2 cup of green peas, blanched in boiling water
- 1/2 lb BBQ pork, cut into bite size pieces
- Soy sauce and salt to taste
Click on the link below for Cooking Instructions.
Instructions
 Heat a wok until it’s smoking hot. Beat the eggs and scramble with some oil.Set aside the scrambled eggs for later use. |
 Heat some oil in a wok. Stir fry the day old rice and season with some light soy sauce and salt. Stir fry until the soy sauce is evenly distributed. |
 Add in the BBQ pork and continue to stir fry. |
 Add in the bite size pineapple pieces. |
 Add in the peas and the scrambled eggs. Stir fry until all the ingredients are well mixed and the rice is slightly dry. |
The HongKong Style Fried Rice is simple to make and ready in less than 20 minutes. You may use any left over ingredients in your fridge like roast chicken, Chinese sausage, kimchi, mushroom, dried shrimp, salted fish, peppers, green onion, celery, corn, etc. to make this fried rice. It is a very flexible recipe. Thank you Vanessa for sharing with us.
Have you tried stir frying in rice oil-it has a great smoke point of 490!!!
what is coating on chicken in sweet&sour chicken(hongkong)style
Hi Margaret: I am not sure what Sweet and Sour (HK Style) Chicken looks like. If it has any similairity with Sweet and Sour Pork, you should check this post of mine http://chowtimes.com/2006/06/sweet_and_sour_pork.html.
please list out the ingredients for fried rice and tell how to prepare it.
thanks
Happy.