Love Chinese takeout? Â Here’s a quick way to make healthy Chinese at home without all that MSG! It is one of my family’s favorite ways to eat soaked rice. It can be pared with the healthy protein of your choice including fried eggs (chopped up into small pieces), chicken, beef, or seafood.
I feel that white rice is better than brown rice for this recipe. Feel free to use whatever you enjoy most, however. Wild rice is also delicious and actually the most nutritious choice of the three.
Egg Fried Rice Recipe
10 minute recipe for egg fried rice with additional frozen vegetables. Ingredients include a recommended healthy fat for cooking and traditionally brewed soy sauce.
Ingredients
- 2-3 cups leftover cooked rice
- 3 Tbl expeller pressed coconut oil
- 3 eggs fried and chopped into small pieces
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- teriyaki sauce or soy sauce
- sea salt to taste
Instructions
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Add coconut oil to a large frypan and cook on medium heat for a minute or so to get hot.
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Add in handfuls of the cooked rice and stir for 3-4 minutes to absorb the oil.
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Mix in frozen peas and egg pieces.
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Stir and cook on medium for 1-2 minutes more.
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Taste and add sea salt as necessary.
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Serve and enjoy!
Fast Healthy Chinese Meal
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Looking forward to making this tomorrow. Thanks Sarah
Me too! I’m probably going to make it with shrimp (instead of egg) for dinner tonight!
We made this for dinner last night with your homemade teriyaki sauce. It was delicious! Thank you for the recipe. We will be putting this on our menu rotation for sure. I used the organic white basmati rice however I did not soak it overnight because we decided last minute to make this. From your other articles I read it should be soaked to remove the phytic acid. Would the same soak with something acidic also remove the talc and most of the arsenic?
Here are the pros and cons of soaking white rice and considerations for whether it is worth the effort. https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/cooking-soaked-white-rice/
Sarah,
Do you still use San J Teriyaki sauce? I thought I read somewhere that you stopped using it because the canola oil they used was GMO. Thank you! I am making this for dinner tonight! Looking forward to it.
I stopped using San J many years ago. Last time I checked, it still had canola oil in it!
I make my own teriyaki sauce now. Here’s the recipe. https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/homemade-teriyaki-sauce/
Enjoy!
Could you talk more about your deli meat of choice? I didn’t know there were any that were good, but there must be since you use them!
I bring the right amount of filtered water to a boil, add a few tbl of butter and a bit of sea salt, add the right amount of rice and simmer for about 15 minutes.