Fried Rice

Fried Rice or fondly known as Fly Lice in Thailand is really one of the simplest meal to make in a jiffy. This is the one dish where anything leftover can be used and all you have to do is chuck them in altogether. Add in all poisons* to your hearts' content; minus fly and lice.

Ingredients

• 4-5 tbsp oil
• 200g chicken/beef - diced or sliced
• 1-2 red onions - sliced
• 3 green chillies, 3 red chillies - sliced (reduce chillies & de-seed for less spicy)
• 2 garlic - sliced
• 1 potato (skinned, cubed and stir fry separately)
• vegetables (cabbage/long beans/corn-peas-carrot mix)
• 2 eggs
• salt to taste
• 2 cupful of uncooked rice (boiled and apparently better if left overnight)
  

Optional:

• *Poisons: Fishballs, Sotong (Squid) balls, Fresh Prawns, Squid, Fish meat, Crab meat, Anchovies etc
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 3 tbsp dark soy sauce (kicap manis)
• 3 tbsp tomato ketchup

Method:

1. Blend onions, chillies and garlic together in a blender with some water. Alternatively, you can also choose to pound them together with mortar and pestle
2. If using meat, fry the meat first in oil till slightly browned. For beef, I usually boil them first to tenderize before frying, as the beef found here tend to be quite chewy
3. Add in the blended ingredients and mix in together with the meat for about 10-15 minutes and then chuck in all poisons desired
4. Fry till the paste in the pan becomes slightly dry
5. Then add in the soy sauces and tomato ketchup. Using soy sauce, especially the dark ones is more of an Indonesian influence. Tomato ketchup is more of an Indian Nasi Goreng Singapore style (although I really have no idea of the true ingredients that makes up the Indian Nasi Goreng in Singapore!)
6. Add salt to taste
7. Add in vegetables and rice on top of the mixture and lid it up to simmer for a few minutes
8. Then mix them all together and make sure that the paste is evenly distributed to the rice
9. Add in taters and at this point, you can create a hole in the pan and break in the eggs to stir them in.
10. Alternative, you can choose to fry the eggs and serve it on top of the rice
11. Garnish with keropoks, spring onion, coriander and cucumber

Enjoy!