Okay, I'm doing well so far as we're three days into 2012 and I've made 2 new make/bakes!
We had a fair bit of left over chicken from the Roast Chicken & Sticky Carrots which I made on Sunday. Last night I used up most of the white meat in a cheat's Korma (thank you mr Patak for your yummy paste) but I still had some of the leg and thigh meat left. In my attempt to be less wasteful (yet another new years resolution) I thought I'd try to make a fried rice.
I've never tried to make a proper fried rice before, unless you count reheating yesterdays takeaway leftovers! M is not a fan of Chinese food so we don't ever have any rice to use. He won't touch a Chinese takeaway at all (which I'm gutted by as Chinese is my favourite) as they make him feel ill. I've managed to get him to eat home made Chinese stir-fries which is a step forward towards introducing my favourite cuisine to him. Another factor is that I rarely have left-over rice as it is one of those dishes that I just can't seem to master. I've tried cooking rice every way possible and it always ends up a gluey sticky mess no matter what I do. After disaster after disaster I have now accepted defeat and I use boil in the bag or microwave rice. Sadly I cheat a bit today and I did use microwave rice for this dish but it did use up the left over chicken so I think that outweighs it!
The recipe I used was from the BBC Good Food (possibly my favourite site ever) and I attempted Barney's Monday Night Rice as found here
Okay, so today is Tuesday and I've made Monday Night Rice but never mind!
At first glance the ingredients sounded a bit unusual (Curry Powder and Tomato Ketchup?!) and I really wasn't sure how it would end up but the reviews were good so I thought I'd give it a try. I added a chopped yellow pepper, a handful of frozen sweetcorn and some chopped smoked ham to the ingredients but otherwise I followed the recipe exactly.
My conclusion was that it was lovely and even M rated it as "delicious"! The mild curry powder (I'm a complete spice wimp) I used gave it a very slight spice and you couldn't even tell it had tomato sauce in it - it made for a lovely fusion of Asian flavours. The egg mix was a bit too watery so I ended up with scrambled egg instead of an omelette so I think I'd leave the water out next time. Quick, easy and tasty and quite healthy considering - a success and definitely one to make again.
I think I'm going to have to try and make all my favourite chinese dishes at home :)
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