I am sure all of us will fry rice once in a while especially when we have lots of cooked rice in our fridge or when we are short of time to cook a full meal or when we run out of idea on what to cook. Fried Rice is the easiest meal to cook up, a single pot with all the required carbohydrate, protein, fats, minerals and vitamins in it. I usually add a combination of such ingredients as eggs, prawns, char siew, carrots, peas, maize, long beans, cabbage, onion and bird eyes chilies in my fried rice. Another delicious way of frying rice is to add sambal and crispy anchovies to it.
I brought my simple fried rice to another level by adding cheese and baking it. It is simply delicious for the palate.
Ingredients:
- 200 g overnight rice
- 1 egg
- 75 g fish fillet
- 75 g prawns
- 75 g squids
- 1 tbsp butter
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped and divided into 2
- 1 tbsp flour
- 125 g milk
- 1/2 tsp + 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp + 1/2 tsp white pepper powder
- 100 g grated Mozzarella cheese
- 4 tbsp cooking oil
Method:
- Heat up the kuali with cooking oil.
- Fry the fish fillet till cooked. Ladle up and set aside.
- Add prawns to the kuali and fry till cooked. Ladle up and set aside.
- Add squids to the kuali and fry till cooked. Ladle up and set aside.
- Add half of the chopped garlic to the kuali.
- When the garlic is fragrant, add rice to the kuali.
- Break the egg onto the rice. Fry the rice till it is dry.
- Add 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of pepper to the rice. Fry the rice till the seasonings are incorporated.
- Ladle up the rice into a baking dish. Set aside.
- Add butter to a saucepan. Let the butter melt over medium heat.
- Saute the remaining chopped garlic till fragrant.
- Add flour to the butter, stirring continuously till both are fully incorporated to form a roux.
- Add milk to the roux, stirring continuously till a thick sauce is formed.
- Add the fish fillet, prawns and squids to the sauce.
- Add the remaining 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of pepper to the sauce. Stir.
- Pour the sauce with the seafood onto the rice in the baking dish. (You may stir and mix the sauce with the rice or you may just leave the sauce on top of the rice.)
- Sprinkle cheese on top and bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 deg C for 25-30 minutes.
