Who doesn't know the famous Chinese fried rice dish? Delicious rice with stir fried vegetables; a meal couldn't be more simple and different too, with all its varieties! This dish could NOT have been more fun to make, it practically takes only an hour from start to finish. There's something really fascinating (and satisfying) about chopping all your ingredients and having them laid-out and ready, waiting to be added into the rice! Any form of fried rice is always really easy to make: it only involves adding cooked rice to wok or pan fried vegetables, eggs, meat and so on. Today is no different with the sole exception of the form of eggs. Traditionally speaking, they are scrambled and mixed in, but today, I decided to top the dish with a fully cooked sunny side up. I chose really basic vegetables for today (carrots, corn, peas, peppers...) but you can go crazy with whatever you like; meat seafood etc. etc. Just a quick and simple go-to meal but really good.

Fried rice (makes 4 portions):

• 2 small carrots
• 1 red bell pepper
• 6-8 mushrooms
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1/2 a small corn

• 3/4 cup rice
• 1 tsp. clarified butter (ghee)
• 2 tsp. salt

• 2 tbsp. oil
• 1 tsp. chili flakes
• 1 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
• 2 tsp. soy sauce
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. sesame seeds*

Peel the carrots and slice on a bias. Chop the bell pepper into squares. Clean and dry the mushrooms and slice vertically. Blanch the peas in boiling water for about 30 seconds. Boil & cook the corn and slice off the kernels. In a pot of boiling water, add the rice, ghee and salt. Cook the rice for about 15 minutes, or until just cooked. Drain and cool. In a large frying pan, add the oil and wait for it to heat up on a high heat. Then add the chili flakes and ginger-garlic paste while turning the heat to low. Add all your vegetables except mushrooms and stir around. After 2-3 minutes add the mushrooms and 1 teaspoon soy sauce. Stir around and then add the rice, and season with salt and remaining soy sauce. Mix, cover and let cook on a low flame for about 2-3 minutes before serving.

Sunny-side-up:

• Eggs
• Salt
• Ground black pepper
• Butter

In a non-stick pan, melt a tiny amount of butter until the pan is coated. Crack an egg and break the yolk using a fork. Once cooked on one side, flip and cook the other. Season with salt and pepper. Top on the fried rice.

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