Name: Xo Fried Rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4 and makes 150 g (5½ oz) cheat’s xo sauce
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 400 g 14 oz) jasmine or basmati rice, cooked al dente, or 6 cups cooked rice, cooled; 3 cm (1¼ inch) ginger, chopped; 200 g 7 oz) sugar snap peas; 175 g 6 oz) baby corn, sliced; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 1 onion, chopped; 4 finger-length red chillies, chopped; 100 g (3½ oz) prosciutto, chopped; 2 tbsp dried shrimp; 1 tbsp dark soy sauce; 2 tbsp oyster sauce; 6 garlic cloves; 3 large shallots, chopped; 2 tbsp finely chopped ginger; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 90 ml 3 fl oz) peanut (groundnut) oil; 1 tbsp palm or soft brown sugar; sriracha or other hot chilli sauce, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
4
and makes 150 g cheat’s xo sauce

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

My Asian Kitchen

By Jennifer Joyce

Published 2018

About

A recent invention, XO is a crazy-good sauce of dried seafood, chilli, garlic, soy and ham. The Hong Kong chef who created it christened it ‘XO’, which means ‘extra old’, borrowing the name from a luxury cognac. There are more complicated ways of producing it, but this is a pared-down version. Traditionally XO includes dried scallops, but they’re impossible to get hold of unless you visit Chinatown.