Beef fried rice

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This is simply a GREAT beef mince recipe. Fried atom made with crushed beef tossed successful an aggravated savoury sauce, it’s got other macromolecule from ovum and bully magnitude of veg truthful it’s a implicit meal you tin get connected the array quickly. And earnestly delicious (you’ll spot maine scoff it!).

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Beef fried rice

Have you ever thought to marque fried atom with beef mince? It works beautifully! Fry up crushed beef successful an aggravated savoury condiment until it’s beautifully caramelised, past flip it done atom with fluffy bits of scrambled ovum and vegetables of choice.

So speedy to marque – nary chopping earthy meat! And successful my version, I’ve opted for adjacent much convenience by making this with frozen diced veg. Because I wholly bargain into the full snap-frozen thing.

But if you’re a amended idiosyncratic than me, delight bash not fto maine halt you from chopping up caller vegetables. Also, fantabulous fridge clean-out opportunity!

Beef fried atom successful a vessel acceptable to beryllium eaten

In lawsuit you uncertainty maine – here’s impervious of deliciousness, and however accelerated this is to cook! (Errr, yes, and classy infinitesimal dropping atom down my apical 😂).

What you need

I similar to usage rather an aggravated flavoured savoury condiment to fry up the beef truthful the atom doesn’t sensation excessively “beefy”. Which mightiness dependable contradictory, but is what I privation with fried atom – a bully equilibrium of each the flavours jumbled unneurotic alternatively than the beef flavour dominating.

Beef fried atom sauce

Soy sauces – We’re utilizing some airy and acheronian soy condiment successful this recipe. What’s the difference? Dark soy stains the atom that heavy mahogany colour arsenic good arsenic adding rather aggravated soy flavour. Light soy condiment provides the brackish without overwhelming with soy flavour, and does not stain the rice.
Substitutions -You tin usage lone airy soy condiment oregon conscionable an all-purpose soy condiment (ie vessel conscionable labelled “soy sauce” without “light” oregon “dark” successful beforehand of it) but the atom colour won’t beryllium arsenic dark. But you cannot usage lone acheronian soy condiment arsenic it volition marque the atom achromatic and the soy flavour volition beryllium mode excessively much! More connected antithetic types of soy sauces here.
Oyster sauce – A load of flavour, each successful 1 sauce! It’s saccharine and savoury and adhd is simply a neat flavour shortcut successful dishes. Makes a regular quality successful Asian dishes, from Pad See Ew to Asian Glazed Salmon to Honey Pepper Beef to Supreme Soy Noodles. And Steamed Asian Greens with Oyster Sauce!
Vegetarian oyster sauce is disposable these days, astatine Asian stores and immoderate ample market stores (Australia – there’s Ayam vegetarian oyster sauce astatine Woolies)
Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing wine) is an indispensable constituent for making genuinely “restaurant tasting” fried atom (and noodles and disturbance fries!). Without it, the crockery volition beryllium lacking something.
Substitute with Mirin, cooking involvement oregon adust sherry.
Non alcoholic sub – sub cooking vino with 1/4 cupful debased sodium chickenhearted broth/stock, expect to disturbance fry an other infinitesimal to let for evaporation. And (big tip) adhd a knob of food astatine the extremity and flip done until melted.
White capsicum and sugar – For seasoning. White capsicum is commonly utilized successful Asian dishes due to the fact that you can’t spot it successful wide glossy sauces successful disturbance fries, similar cashew chicken, chop suey (chicken disturbance fry). Whereas if you usage achromatic pepper, you extremity up with small specks successful the sauce.

Stuff successful the fried rice

Don’t person day-old-cooked rice? Don’t effort this look – you’ll beryllium disappointed with gluey fried rice! Make Baked Fried Rice instead (starts with uncooked rice, and it’s awesome!). Use the beef to make Asian Beef and service together.

Cooked rice – Any benignant of atom tin beryllium utilized but it needs to beryllium time aged truthful it’s dried out. So past erstwhile it’s fried up with sauce, the atom gets nicely moistened but is inactive fluffy and crumbly, alternatively than gluey and sticky.
TIP – Keep bags of cooked atom successful your freezer. Super useful standby for disturbance fries, and fried atom connected demand!
Beef mince – That’s crushed beef, to Americans. I usage thin successful fried rice. Pork, chickenhearted and turkey besides enactment large successful this recipe!
Frozen veg – I usage frozen for convenience, successful the tone of this speedy ‘n casual recipe. But delight consciousness escaped to beryllium a amended idiosyncratic than maine and chop up immoderate vegetables you want!
Onion and ail – Essential flavour base. We sauté it up archetypal to flavour the oil.
Eggs – We scramble these successful sesame lipid for beauteous flavour. I emotion fluffy ovum bits successful my fried rice, positive it’s other protein!
Green onion – For freshness and colour. Though you won’t destruct this crockery if you don’t person it.

How to marque beef fried rice

Using beef mince is truthful useful for speedy meals – nary cutting oregon prep required!

Mix the sauce successful a tiny bowl.
Scramble the eggs successful a small sesame lipid (love the flavour it adds!) past region onto a plate. (BTW, this fried atom tin beryllium cooked successful a ample wok oregon a ample non-stick pan).
Cook beef with condiment – Start by cooking the bulb and ail to get the lipid nicely flavoured. Then navigator the beef, breaking it up arsenic you go, until you nary longer spot earthy meat. Then adhd 2 tablespoons of the condiment and navigator for 2 minutes.
Caramelise beef – Add the frozen vegetables (still frozen is fine) past navigator for a further 2 minutes to thaw and navigator the vegetables, positive get the beef nicely caramelised. Caramelisation is cardinal for bully flavour here! It makes specified a quality getting a bully “sear” connected mince (case successful point: Vietnamese Caramelised Pork Bowls, Asian Beef Bowls, Spicy Firecracker Beef – and truthful on…).
Rice – Add atom and sauce, flip for a mates of minutes until the atom starts to caramelise too.
Toss done ovum – Then finally, flip done greenish bulb and scrambled ovum past serve!

And determination you person it! It truly is simply a speedy recipe. 12 minutes to navigator up and minimal prep. It’s kid affable but if you privation to springiness it a fiery boost, a drizzle of sriracha oregon dollop of your favourite chilli paste surely wouldn’t spell astray.

Love to cognize if you springiness it a go! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Beef fried rice

Recipe video above. GREAT speedy meal to marque with beef mince, implicit with veg, macromolecule and starch! The instrumentality is utilizing a beardown savoury condiment and caramelise the beef good for other delicious flavour.

Frozen cooked atom is simply a staple successful my house. Don't person day-old-cooked rice? Don't effort this look – you'll beryllium disappointed with gummy rice! Make Baked Fried Rice alternatively (starts with uncooked rice, and it's awesome!). Use the beef to marque Asian Beef and service together.

Course Mains

Cuisine Asian

Keyword beef mince recipe, Fried Rice, Ground beef recipe, atom meals

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Servings

Calories 471cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

Sauce:

1 tbsp dark soy sauce (Note 1)
2 tsp light soy sauce (Note 1)
2 tbsp oyster sauce (Note 2)
1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Note 3)
1/2 tsp white sugar
1/8 tsp white pepper (sub black)

Scrambled eggs:

1 tsp sesame oil
2 eggs , lightly whisked

Fried rice:

2 tbsp oil (peanut, veg, canola oregon different neutral oil)
1/2 onion , finely diced
2 garlic cloves , finely minced
250g / 8 oz beef mince / crushed beef (I usage lean, Note 4)
2 cups frozen diced carrots, peas, corn (still frozen fine!) (or caller diced veg)
3 cups day-old cooked rice (1c uncooked atom = 3c cooked, Note 5)
1/2 cup finely sliced greenish onions (1-2 stems)

Cups – Metric

Instructions

Mix Sauce ingredients successful a tiny bowl, past acceptable aside.
Scramble eggs – Heat sesame lipid successful a ample wok oregon non-stick cookware implicit mean precocious heat. Add ovum and cook, stirring gently, truthful it is softly scrambled. Remove onto a plate.
Cook beef – Heat rootlike lipid successful the aforesaid cookware implicit precocious heat. Add bulb and garlic, navigator for 30 seconds. Add beef and cook, breaking it up arsenic you go, for 2 minutes oregon until you nary longer spot earthy beef. Add 2 tablespoons of condiment and navigator for 1 minute.
Veg / caramelise beef – Add frozen vegetables and navigator for 2 minutes oregon until the beef gets nicely caramelised – this is the instrumentality to large flavour truthful bash not shortcut this!
Rice & sauce – Add atom and remaining sauce. Toss for 2 minutes until the condiment is good dispersed passim the atom and the atom grains commencement to caramelise a bit.
Egg & greenish onion – Then adhd scrambled eggs and greenish onion, springiness it a speedy flip to disperse past disagreement betwixt bowls. EAT!

Notes

1. Soy Sauces:
* Dark soy condiment is labelled arsenic such, provides colour and gives much flavour to the condiment than different soy sauces. Sold astatine Aussie market stores nowadays. Fallback: sub with much mean oregon airy soy (below)
* Soy Sauce – mean each intent soy sauce, they conscionable accidental “soy sauce” connected the statement (eg. Kikkoman). Can besides use Light soy sauce – vessel is labelled arsenic such.

2. Oyster sauce – tin beryllium substituted with a vegan/vegetarian oyster condiment (see here for Ayam astatine Woolies, Australia). OR usage hoisin alternatively – akin thickness and adds akin magnitude of flavour but has 5 spice flavour added. Different but akin levels of tastiness (if that makes sense!)

3. Chinese cooking wine (“Shaoxing wine”) is an indispensable constituent for making genuinely “restaurant standard” fried rice. Substitute with Mirin, cooking involvement oregon adust sherry. Non alcoholic sub – sub cooking vino with 1/4 cupful debased sodium chickenhearted broth/stock, expect to disturbance fry an other infinitesimal to let for evaporation. And (big tip) adhd a knob of food astatine the extremity and flip done until melted.

4. Meat – tin sub pork, chicken, turkey mince

5. Rice – Needs to beryllium time aged atom truthful the atom is adust and the fried atom is crumbly. If it’s freshly cooked, the fried atom ends up sticky and gluey. Not good, my friends!

TIP: Keep bags of cooked atom successful your freezer. This is what I do. Handy to conscionable reheat for disturbance fries (sprinkle of h2o makes it each steamy!) and it’s crumbly capable for fried rice. Win win!

6. Leftovers volition support for 2 days. Can beryllium frozen – reheat successful microwave with a sprinkle of h2o to moisten it up.

Nutrition per serving assuming 4 servings.

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