Recipe for Royal Crown fried rice
Tasty fried rice with mixed vegetable, ham, sausage and prawns that is enveloped within a golden delicious omelette.
Servings 2
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice left over rice
- 2 eggs for coating
- 2 Tbsp finely diced beet
- 1/2 cup diced carrot
- 1/2 cup pea
- 1/2 cup corn
- 1/2 cup lotus seeds or chickpeas
- 2 stems scallion
- a few sprigs of cilantro
- 3-4 crab sticks
- 2 salted yolks or 1 egg
- 6-8 dried shrimps or small prawn
- 1/2 cup diced calamari
- 1/2 cup diced ham
- 1/2 cup diced sausage
- 1/2 cup roasted pork optional
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 Tbsp chicken stock
- 1 Tbsp Tamari soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- salt & seasoning to taste
- vegetable oil
Instructions
Prep
- Make sure cooked rice is chilled before hand, using left over rice is recommended. Follow this guide on how to cook and prepare rice for fried rice.
- In a clean bowl, mix 2 cups cold cooked rice with finely diced beet and 2 Tbsp chicken stock.
- If you're using salt yolks, marsh them well and mix with cold rice; otherwise just throw in 1 egg and mix them well. Use your hand to knead and make sure all rice grains are coated evenly without broken them. Set aside.
- Soak dried shrimps (if use).
- Separate white and green parts of scallion. Finely chop them.
- Dice and chop everything else.
Omelette
- Whisk 2 eggs to fluff a bit.
- Put a large surface skillet over medium to low heat, when hot, add a tablespoon of vegetable oil then pour 1/2 the whisked egg in evenly to create a thin omelette layer. Turn and pan the skillet so that the egg liquid fully covers its surface.
- Gently flip omelette upside down to fry the other side or cover with lid.
- When done, carefully transfer the omelette out onto a flat surface to cool down. You can do this by peeking one corner/small area at a time. The whole thing should fall out easily.
- Repeat the above step for the second omelette round.
Rice and toppings
- Heat 1 Table spoon of vegetable oil in wok or large sauce pan over high heat.
- When hot, add the chopped white scallion, stir to saute still soften.
- Add the mixed cold rice into pan. Stir often till quite dry (2 - 3 minutes).
- Add all the chopped and diced vegetable, calamari and protein. Stir to mix well.
- When the mixture dry a bit, add soy sauce. Keep stirring well why frying, use a spatula to fold, stir, lightly damp the ingredients apart if they stick together.
- When rice is done frying (dry, crisp, and doesn't stick) and all other topping is well cooked, adjust season to taste.
- Finally add chopped green scallion and ground pepper, fully stir and remove from heat.
Craft and Serve
- Place an omelette round over a soup bowl. Use your hand to carefully indent inside it.
- Spoon in fried rice, fold and tuck omelette ends to fully stuff the rice inside.
- Quickly grab a serving plate to cover the bowl opening. Flip the whole thing up side down so that the omelette ends is at the bottom.
- Use a scissor or paring knife to cut the omelette top into small triangular sections. Fold these down to create the crown with fried rice inside.
- Garnish and decorate with available toppings.
- Serve them hot.