Can't believe that a whole month has elapsed since my last post! Where has all the time gone?? Well, fortunately, it wasn't all bad, as I have been mainly pre-occupied with some new toys but mainly, it was Euro 2008! Well, one match left to go tomorrow, and if history is anything to go by, Germany will win it, despite Spain being the better and more entertaining team. Well, w'll see what happens tomorrow!
I have taken so many pictures since my last post, so what do I do, but blog about the humble fride rice! Well, this is actually not as humble and simple as it seems. Normally, we would use cooked leftover ingredients in a fried rice, but to use FRESH beef require the technique to be slightly modified. The reason is because beef is a very delicate meat to cook, especially if you want it to be tender and juicy afterwards, without overcoooking, or having to resort to using tenderised beef that has been marinated in chemicals.
My main ingredients are beef and cooked prawns (mainly to give it a colour balance) along with scallions to garnish at the end. The beef is marinated with garlic, soy and oyster sauce and sesame oil.
The beef is then rapidly fried in a VERY hot wok, till half cooked and set aside.
Then clean wok, reheat till high and half fry a beaten egg.
Then add cold cooked rice on top. Toss and add a sprinkling of stock / water and salt until rice is all separated and fluffy
Now comes the delicate part. Push rice to the side, add the beef with "SOME" of the juices. Not too much that it soaks the rice. Only enough so that it can all be worked into the rice without making it soggy. Then, mix and fry well for no more than another one minute. Any longer and the beef will become tough. If you rice is still soggy after that, then you have added too much juice. Either cook it longer and accept the tougher beef or remove from heat and accept the soggy rice. Garnish with cooked prawns and scallions before removing from heat.
And here is the final result! Enjoy!
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Beef Fried Rice
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9 comments:
I love all types of fried rice! Well, maybe if you threw fish into it, I'll fancy it less!
yes, yes, yes SPAIN WON!!! ^O^
can prawns go well with beef in fried rice ? have not try that combination....
EURO'08 the source of zombies at work over here in M'sia. So far I've only attempted beef with ginger and spring onions once at home. Luckily not too tough.
U still need food during the eurocup! hehe.
I've been starting to fry rice more recently just the way you do,sans the beef :P
I been eating more beef fried rice lately, I haven't yet made them at home, rarely buy beef that is.
wmw
Fish is not likely.... it breaks up too easily.
ling,
prawns here dont actually flavour the rice as its precooked and only a few were added to add colour to the dish
tummythoz,
well done on your attempt. I have had many unsuccessful attempts in the past!
daphne,
Thats true, but nothing elaborate, could make me late for matches :)
tigerfish,
always something to resort to when out of ideas ;)
ms 2be,
sometimes, when time is scarce, preparing beef is godsend as it cooks so quickly
looks great and think it will be better if u coat some corn flour to the beef during marination. . .its more tender that way.
FooDcrazEE,
Indeed you are right. However, I found that I need to use a lot of oil to fry when i coat it with cornflour, otherwise it would stick, so I gave up using it.
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