Shrimp Fried Rice

This recipe is light, flavorful, versatile together with close of it tin hold upward made ahead together with merely heated together at repast time. It is ane of our favorite's (summer AND winter) together with double or tripled, it is peachy for a crowd!! 

 

3 cups of mutual depression temperature COOKED rice (day former rice is best)
5 slices of bacon (save 2 tablespoons bacon fat )
1/2 loving cup chopped sweetness onion
1/4 cup sliced greenish onion tops
1 pound of  large shrimp
2 eggs beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
dry crushed blood-red pepper flakes to taste
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
Sliced cherry tomatoes for decoration
Any veggies you lot desire to add together (cooked together with chopped)


Spray your largest frying pan amongst vegetable spray together with rut to medium high. Beat ii eggs together with pour them into the pan, tilting the pan together with therefore the eggs spread out overnice together with thin. When the eggs are starting to "set", sprinkle lightly amongst a few crushed blood-red pepper flakes. Flip the eggs over together with take from heat. If the eggs don't flip over inwards ane piece, that's ok, merely give-up the ghost on the pieces every bit large together with sparse every bit you lot can. Remove from pan.

When the eggs are cool plenty to handle, ringlet them upward together with spell thinly (to get thin strips of egg). This sounds similar a hassle, but it is an of import utilisation of the dish; set aside.


Fry v slices of bacon until crispy, take together with drain on newspaper towels fix aside (reserve closed to bacon fat).

Put 2 tablespoons of the reserved bacon fatty inwards a wok or large frying pan, add together 1/2 loving cup chopped sweetness onion together with saute until tender; add together iii cups of COLD cooked rice, the crumbled bacon, 1/4 loving cup sliced greenish onion, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon dark pepper together with whatsoever other chopped (cooked) vegetables you lot desire to include; gently mix over medium heat.

Add ii tablespoons soy sauce, 1/4 teaspoon sesame stone oil together with ane pound of COOKED shrimp (see note). Gently toss, together with rut through; gently stir inwards egg strips merely earlier serving. Decorate amongst sliced cherry tomatoes.

NOTE: If you lot are using precooked shrimp, merely stir them inwards at the halt of the recipe.

NOTE: If you lot are using raw shrimp (which I highly recommend), CLICK HERE for my slow cooking method.

NOTE: If you lot are using  frozen raw shrimp, brand certain they are completely thawed together with drained together with patted dry before you cook them (or they volition boil every bit they defrost together with give-up the ghost rubbery).

NOTE: It is of import that the rice used inwards this recipe hold upward made ahead of fourth dimension together with chilled inwards the fridge. It is a peachy utilisation for leftover rice. 

NOTE: You volition non hold upward happy amongst the resultant of this recipe  if you lot utilisation freshly made rice.