This Week's Meals (3/4): Shiitake Fried Rice
This recipe book is a mixed bag. So far, the food I'm getting is amazing. But the instructions are bad. Like in the Beef Noodle Soup, it never tells you when to put the beef back in. I made an educated guess and updated the recipe.
In this one, the recipe ended with fried rice, sure. But it was not hydrated rice. Just fried hard rice. It never asked for water to hydrate the rice. So I edited the recipe and added some water and instructions for steaming the rice at the end.
Title: Shiitake Fried Rice
Yield: 6 servings
Category: Side
Cuisine: Chinese
Source: The Ultimate Chinese & Asian Cookbook
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Ingredients
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2 whole eggs
3 tbsp vegetable oil
12 oz shiitake mushrooms
8 scallions (sliced diagonally)
1 clove garlic (crushed)
1/2 green pepper (seeded)(chopped)
2 tbsp butter
1 cup long grain rice
1 tbsp sherry
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp fresh cilantro
salt
1 tbsp water (eggs)
1 1/4 cup water (rice)
pepper
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Instructions
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1 - Beat the eggs with the water and season with a little salt
2 - Heat one third of the vegetable oil in a large preheated frying
pan.
3 - Pour in the eggs and cook into a large omlette. Lift the sides of
the omlette and tilt the pan so that the uncooked egg can run
underneath to be cooked.
4 - Roll up the omlette and cut into thin slices.
5 - Remove and discard the mushroom stalks if they are tough.
6 - Slice the caps thinly.
7 - Heat another third of the oil in the pan.
8 - Stir-fry the scallions and garlic for 3 to 4 minutes, until
softened, but not brown.
9 - Transfer them to a plate with a slotted spoon and set aside.
10 - Add the green bell pepper an stir-fry for about 3-4 minutes.
11 - Add the butter and the remaining oil.
12 - As the butter begins to sizzle, add the mushooms and stir-fry
over moderate heat for 3 to 4 minutes, or until both vegetables are
soft.
13 - Pour the sherry over the mushrooms, then stir in the rice.
14 - Heat the rice over moderate heat, stirring constantly to keep the
rice from sticking
15 - Stir in the scallions, garlic, omlette slices, soy sauce and the
chopped cilantro.
16 - Add the water for the rice and cover. Bring to a boil on high
heat. Do not open the pot.
17 - Drop heat to medium, and wait five minutes.
18 - Drop the heat to low, and wait five minutes.
19 - Take the pot off the heat, and wait five minutes.
20 - Remove the cover, and fluff rice.
21 - Season with salt and pepper to taste.
