Bacon-fried rice is easy to make and is loaded with crispy bacon and fluffy eggs. It’s got amazing flavors from garlic and onion and the sauce for fried rice is perfect! It’s all about the sauce, make a perfect sauce, and your fried rice will be better than the take-out version.
1cupfrozen vegetables mixI used carrot and peas, no need to thaw
¼cupgreen onion
2teaspooncooking oil like canola oilyou’ll need this if you don’t get enough bacon fat, I got enough bacon fat, skipped oil
Fried rice sauce
1tablespoonoyster sauce
1tablespoondark soy sauce
1tablespoonChinese cooking winesubstitute with mirin or rice wine vinegar
¼teaspoonwhite pepperground
½teaspoonsesame oil
Instructions
Get all ingredients prepped, measured, and ready. Assembled everything near the stove, you have to move fast while cooking bacon fried rice. Use a wok or large skillet to cook fried rice.
Begin by making fried rice sauce. Mix oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, Chinese cooking wine (I used rice wine vinegar), white ground pepper, and sesame oil. Set it near the stove.
Heat work on high heat. Fry bacon pieces in a wok tossing frequently until bacon is crispy and brown. Using a slotted spoon remove crispy bacon pieces from a bowl, and set aside.
Use bacon fat left in a wok to cook bacon fried rice. Note: if bacon fat isn’t enough, you can add little cooking oil to the wok.
On high heat, saute diced onion and minced garlic in bacon fat for 20 to 30 seconds.
Push onion-garlic mix to one side of the pan and pour beaten eggs on the empty side. Quickly move the beaten egg around with a spatula until it’s just about cooked. You’ll know eggs are just about cooked when it starts forming into big lumps.
Stir scrambled eggs, onion garlic mix all together.
Add in frozen vegetable mix. Toss and cook for a minute or two. No need to thaw frozen vegetables. When added frozen to the pan, it will quickly defrost and high heat will evaporate the water quickly.
Add day-old cooked rice and pour the prepared sauce over it.
Quickly toss everything together and cook for 1 to 2 minutes or until rice is evenly coated in sauce and the liquid evaporates.
Add crispy bacon and green onion, and toss well.
Serve immediately!
Notes
Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.