Pintastic or Pinstrosity
I don't know about you but I am always a little nervous when I start a Pinterest project. I mean they have whole websites now devoted to how badly a Pinterest projects turn out! It's called
Pinstrosity and it's pretty hilarious. I am happy to say that my latest Pinproject was not a Pinstrosity! I love chicken fried rice, so when I saw a pin that claimed to be "better than takeout chicken fried rice" I just had to try it.
It looks amazing right? I mean who wouldn't want to try it after seeing that pin! Then to my dismay I realized my pin took me to some bull crap picture website! Don't you just hate that? But gladly I was able to track it down. The pin is from a website called
Bakerette.
Better Than Take-Out Chicken Fried Rice
Author: Bakerette.com
Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: Asian
Serves: 5-6
- 4 cups brown rice, prepared
- 2 cups rotisserie chicken, chopped or 1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts cooked
- 1 cup frozen peas and carrots, thawed
- 1/2 white onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- Prepare rice per package directions and set aside. I like making mine in a rice cooker but if you don’t have one, no worries! The stove top works just fine.
- In a large skillet heat sesame oil and sauté onion until transparent. Add the garlic, peas and carrots. Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.
- Crack eggs over the vegetables and stir throughout the vegetables while scrambling the eggs.
- Add the chicken, rice, and soy sauce. Stir until soy sauce is well incorporated.
- Remove from stove and serve hot.
This rice can also be frozen and reheated in the microwave. It tastes just as good.
The recipe makes enough for 5-6 people as do most recipes I find online. My problem with that is I'm making it for 1-2 95% of the time. So I simply cut the rice down to 2 cups, and that was enough for Ben to have two bowls for dinner, one fore myself, and enough left over for me to have it for lunch two days in a row! It also calls for already cooked chicken, so I googled 'how to make moist chicken,' because no one wants dry chicken. I found a recipe that went basically like this:
- Heat olive oil on the stove
- Add chicken and turn on each side for about 1 min
- Turn stove on medium heat and cover the chicken
- Let sit for 10 min
- Take off the heat and let sit for 10 min
- And Ta-Da! It's ready!
Here is the actual recipe for moist chicken. I love cooking with chicken cutlets, they are thin, cook quickly, and I can eat the whole thing unlike a huge chicken breast! So as you can see I skipped some of the steps like pounding out the chicken. I followed the rest of the Chicken Fried Rice recipe cutting back a little here and there, and I must say it was fantastic! It turned out perfectly and much better than any of the fried rice I've tried at numerous places around Amelia Island and Jax!
I'm a messy cook so there is sesame oil and rice everywhere, but oh well! I happily give this pin my pintastic approval! Follow me on
Pinterest to see what I might be cooking up next!
Have a fab Wednesday loves!
xoxo Ashley
