This chicken fried rice is such a great recipe for using up leftover scraps of chicken from your roast chicken dinner. We hate seeing food go to waste, and will always try to find ways to turn leftovers into further meals or freeze for another day.
One thing that’s become a ritual after I make a roast dinner, is Chris slicing up any leftover meat into one parcel for sandwiches/salads, then wrapping up shreds of meat for fried rice or soup, and then boiling up the carcass for stock. So I’m using leftover roast chicken for this recipe. You can use rotisserie chicken, cooked chicken breast or other cooked and sliced/shredded meat if you prefer.
You can serve the rice as a meal in its own right, or you can have serve it with a few sides, or even serve the rice as a side dish. Sticky Sesame chicken Crispy Sesame Prawn Toast Spicy Ginger Beef Sticky Chinese Pork Belly – melt-in-the-mouth tender Baked Cauliflower Wings in a delicious Asian sauce Oven-Baked Ribs with Crispy Onions
The boiled rice – getting it right every time
To make the best fried rice, it’s really important to get the boiled rice bit right first. It needs to be boiled (I’ve got a simple tutorial here for how to boil rice in a pan perfectly), then cooled, so the rice dries out a little. This will help stop the rice from sticking together and will also help it to absorb more flavour.
Swaps for fried rice
Swap out the chicken for cooked shredded/sliced pork or beef. You could also add ham, crispy bacon and/or cooked chorizo pieces. If you want more veggies, add in cooked carrots, sweetcorn, broccoli, mushrooms, sugarsnap peas, canned beansprouts or canned bamboo shoots.
Indonesian fried rice Cauliflower egg fried rice from my chicken stir fry Homemade pilau rice from my chicken jalfrezi recipe
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Hi, I’m Nicky and I love to cook! I want to share with you my favourite, delicious family friendly recipes. I want to inspire you to create fantastic food for your family every day.
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Hi, I’m Nicky and I love to cook! I want to share with you my favourite, delicious family friendly recipes. I want to inspire you to create fantastic food for your family every day.
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