Recipe: Tasty Japanese Fried Rice

Japanese Fried Rice. When whipping up Japanese fried rice at home, I try to go with rice that is at least a day old (and preferably refrigerated). Long, scientific story cut super-short: it's because some evaporation. Most fried rice is made with long grain rice which does not stick together due to a higher ratio of amylose to amylopectin.

I craved comfort foods like this rice dish. Japanese fried rice is traditionally cooked on a teppan, a flat open-top grilling surface, but you can make it just as readily in a wok or a large pan. Follow these steps to learn how to make Japanese. You can have Japanese Fried Rice using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Japanese Fried Rice

1. It's 1/2 of spring onion.
2. You need 3 of dried Shiitake mushroom.
3. You need 1 pack of Kanikamaboko (crab sticks).
4. It's 3 of eggs.
5. Prepare 2 of bowls cooked rice.
6. You need 1 tablespoon of Dashi powder (Japanese fish bouillon).
7. You need 1/2 tablespoon of soy sauce.
8. It's of Black pepper.

Japanese fried rice is called 'chāhan' (チャーハンor炒飯). It is also called 'yakimeshi' (焼飯) but I remember that the word 'yakimeshi' was used by older people and younger people called it 'chāhan'. Japanese Fried Rice. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Japanese fried rice is often served with grilled chicken at restaurants.

Japanese Fried Rice instructions

1. Soak dried Shiitake and cut Shiitake small..
2. Cut spring onion and Kanikamaboko.
3. Beat eggs with a little salt and fry eggs. Put fried eggs aside in dish..
4. Heat salad oil in pan and fry spring onion..
5. Fry Shiitake mushroom and Kanikamaboko and put cooked rice..
6. Season Dashi powder black pepper and soy sauce then add fried egg..
7. Today's dinner.

My favorite variant is to use leftover roasted chicken with the fried rice. It makes it a complete dish. I had a request to make Japanese fried rice so that is what I am going to do. I don't own a hibachi style grill like they use in the restaurants so I am just using a skillet, but the results are pretty much the same. These rice cakes are cooked with leftover Japanese steamed rice.