The recipe for fried rice is simple to follow, preheat your skillet before and then add any uncooked proteins. Add the rice and vegetables, check the next section to learn more about how to get that colour which indicates rich flavour and the 10 ingredient fried rice recipes.

What Is Fried Rice?

Fried rice is a traditional Chinese which consists of cooked rice, veggies, protein, soy sauce, and aromatics. Stir-frying the ingredients in a large pan or wok helps you have the best flavours. Fried rice is a great way to use up leftovers because it is simple and you can make it with anything you have in the fridge.

10 Ingredient Fried Rice Recipes

Rice: You must prepare ahead and use fully cold-cooked rice. A fresh batch of warm (or even lukewarm) rice will not fry well when it hits the hot pan, resulting in soggy and sticky clumps not good. 

So, leftover refrigerated rice is excellent!, you can simply make a fresh batch of rice. Spread the rice out on a baking sheet or similar big flat pan, cover with plastic wrap, and chill for 30 minutes (or 10-15 minutes in the freezer) until well cold.

2. Butter: It just tastes so much better and helps everything brown up properly.

3. Veggies: Veggies can significantly improve the flavour and freshness of fried rice. Our neighbourhood Chinese restaurant always used both white and green onions, but feel free to adapt this dish to include other tasty stir-fried vegetables!

4. Toasted sesame oil and oyster sauce: If you don’t eat seafood, you can leave off the oyster sauce and still have delicious fried rice. However, this ingredient makes a significant difference in good fried rice, and a little goes a long way. 

5. Eggs: Which add great flavour, texture and protein.

6. Soy sauce: Different brands of soy sauce also contain pretty dramatically different levels of sodium. You add more at the end if this tastes good to you.

7. Beef and Broccoli: This recipe for beef and broccoli is a popular dish in which sirloin is sautéed with fresh broccoli and topped with a savoury sauce. You can have a healthy and simple dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes!

8. Honey Garlic Chicken: This honey garlic chicken stir fry recipe includes chicken, broccoli, and carrots in a simple sweet and savoury sauce. 

9. Ginger beef Stir: In this ginger beef stir fry, you need to marinate strips of beef sirloin in honey soy sauce before swiftly frying them in a hot skillet with julienned ginger, red chillis, and sliced garlic.

10. Lemon and Scallion fry: This easy stir-fry is packed with flavour despite having only a few ingredients. This recipe is inspired by our favourite take-out chicken stir-fry from a popular Chinese restaurant. And it just takes 30 minutes to put together, which is a great plus. 

What Gives Fried Rice its Colour?

Dark mushroom soy sauce is what gives this fried rice its rich brown/caramel colour. This soy sauce doesn’t add much to the saltiness but is used to give dishes that nice caramel brown colour. 

Dark mushroom soy sauce also adds a hint of umami to a dish, but not much saltiness. You can opt not to use this but do note that the fried rice will be a pale brown. You’ll also notice that dark mushroom soy sauce is slightly thicker than regular soy sauce.