Fried Rice

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

Leftover rice is not only acceptable here but practically mandatory: fresh or warm rice does not fry well, but clumps together and sticks to the wok. You need cold, stale rice, which separates during cooking.

If you have neither roast pork (even the Cuban Le-chon Asado, will work) nor Chinese sausage, ham is a fine substitute. No meat at all is fine, too, of course; see the variations.