How to Prepare Delicious 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice

'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice. I don't know about you, but it's been pretty low-key around these parts. I'm kind of on a half-vacation, doing a little bit of work each day, but also taking time to run errands, watch movies, experiment in the kitchen, do some year-end organization, and finish up those Christmas cards. I cooked a refrigerator clean-out fried rice.

Fried rice is a great dumping ground for random ingredients lying around your kitchen. And guess what — all those random ingredients will come together and do wonderful things. I love to cook Asian-inspired dishes so a rice cooker is much needed in our household. You can cook 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of 'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice

1. Prepare of Cold/Leftover cooked rice.
2. You need of (equal to)=.
3. Prepare of Chopped/Diced raw vegetables/left overs.
4. It's of Olive oil or butter.
5. You need of Minced garlic.
6. Prepare of Ginger.
7. You need of Sesame oil.
8. You need of Tamari/Soy sauce.

But for the last two years I've made pancetta fried rice and quinoa fried rice so I went a different route using Spam. I know that some people have HUGE aversions to canned. Leftover rice will dry out more each day it sits in the fridge. Uncooked rice can contain spores of a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus.

'Clean Out the Fridge' Fried Rice instructions

1. If you do not have leftover rice, cook some rice in a yummy vegetable, chicken or beef stock at least 2 hours before preparing meal - the key is having enough rice to equal the amount of veggies you are using. Be sure rice is cooked and cold, and all veggies are chopped/diced prior to cooking..
2. Heat olive oil or butter in a saute pan / wok (pan large enough for rice and veggies to be stirred).
3. Add garlic, cook for a minute or 2..
4. Add veggies, 1 at a time, in order of desired cooking time (example: 1st carrots for 3-5min, then onion, then broccoli, then water chestnuts, then spinach).
5. Stir in rice, a couple dashes of ginger, sesame oil and tamari sauce (to taste). Stir fry for about 5min, then remove from heat and enjoy!.
6. Any veggie combo will work, here is some inspiration: corn, peas, pea pods, sugar snaps, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, onion, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, waterchestnuts, eggplant, tomato, sweet potato, zucchini - add left over shrimp, chicken, pork, beef... anything goes!!! Even bacon!.

Even after cooking, these spores can still survive. Growing up, having fried rice for dinner was synonymous with "fridge clean-out day," meaning that any leftover vegetables and proteins from the night-or week-before were on their way to the wok. Those leftovers might be pieces of Chinese roast pork, bits of leftover chicken and baby bok choy, gai lan. The key is to add what you like - basically just clean out the fridge. If you love mushrooms, add a bunch.