Vegetable fried rice

Name: Vegetable fried rice
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 100 g/3½ oz bean sprouts; 2 teaspoons fish sauce; 2 tablespoons snipped garlic chives; 2 tablespoons Fried Garlic Slices; 2 cups cold cooked jasmine rice; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 40 ml/1¼ fl oz vegetable oil; 4 teaspoons Black Pepper and Lemongrass Stir-Fry Paste; 1 medium-size brown onion, finely sliced lengthwise; 2 teaspoons salted black beans, washed; 4 asparagus spears, cut on the diagonal into 2 cm/¾ in lengths

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Stir

By Christine Manfield

Published 2001

About

Ingredients

2 cups cold cooked jasmine rice
40 ml/1¼ fl oz vegetable oil

Oceania
Australian
Australia
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Using a fork, separate rice grains (to ensure even cooking).
Heat half the oil in a wok and add beaten egg. Cook until set. Turn egg out of wok, roll up and slice finely into shreds. Set aside.
Heat remaining oil and fry onion with spice paste over high heat for 2 minutes, or until onion begins to colour.
Add asparagus, black beans and bean