I am always about using up ingredients in my fridge.
And I am always well stocked with rice in my house (being half Asian, I sometimes have rice for breakfast, lunch AND dinner!)
So when I saw a recipe for fried rice with peas on Thyme for Cooking Blog, I knew I had to make it.
It is this month that I decided to join Secret Recipe Club where we are randomly assigned a blog, and are told to create any recipe from their blog you want. I think this is such a fun idea, because there are so many great blogs out there with amazing recipes to try.
And while I had a mini panic attack when I was assigned to this blog because *gasp* there were mainly savory recipes, I found one that I could do with my limited experience cooking actual meals! I think looking through Katie’s blog has inspired me to start cooking some good dinners, instead of grabbing my favorite recipes and not trying anything new.
If you look at how I made this, I fried everything in bacon drippings because I hate waste and I made bacon earlier that day! But if you didn’t want to trash up an already delicious dish, you should head on over to Katie’s original recipe and try it that way.
This reminded me how much I like fried rice! With two kinds of peas, and eggs mixed right in, I think this will be a regular in my usual dinner rotation!
Fried Rice with Peas and Snap Peas
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup white rice
- 1 cup chicken broth (or vegetable broth if vegetarian)
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tbsp bacon drippings, divided (or olive oil)
- 100 g snap peas, trimmed and cut into thirds
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
Instructions
- In your rice cooker, cook the rice and chicken broth according to manufacture’s instructions. If you don’t have a rice cooker, combine rice and chicken broth in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
- When rice is done, leave uncovered for a while to cool slightly.
- Meanwhile, beat the egg in a small bowl. Heat 1 tablespoon of bacon drippings on a medium skillet. Stir-fry the snap peas for around 1 minute.
- Add the rice, soy sauce and peas, and stir-fry for around 4 minutes.
- Add the egg into the rice mixture, and mix until fully incorporated. Remove from heat and serve!
Hi Cathleen, i've nvr thought of cooking my rice with chic broth for fried rice. Usually we used plain white rice. What a great way to enhance the flavor! thanks for sharing! 🙂
am feeling hungry right now..looks delicious !!
When you said you used bacon dripping…I think I drooled a little. Yum!
What a fun idea with the secret food blog 😀 And fried rice – yum! I had no idea you were half Asian! Learn something new every day 🙂 Thank you for the recipe Cathleen! I hope you had a lovely start to the week xx
Love trying new rice recipes and this one loos perfect.
Oooh I love fried rice. This looks so delicious! Wishing I had made this for dinner tonight – it's just my kind of meal 🙂 yum!
So glad you liked it…. Yes, I do mainly savory 😉 And this is my first month and my blog assignment was mostly sweets LOL
This looks really yummy! I have to admit I have never tried making fried rice at home even though I love it at Chinese restaurants!! Your version looks great 🙂
Simply damn delicious n comforting peas fried rice..
Dedy@Dentist Chef
Mmm I love fried rice, too, and this one looks so fresh and perfect!
Sues
My family has always loved a good fried rice – this looks and sounds yummy! Hope you had a lovely 4th holiday
I love fried rice as an easy clean-out-the-fridge meal!
I like fried rice 🙂 I always add whatever I can find in the fridge 😀
I love my rice too and fried rice is such an amazing way to enjoy them. Love this simple and delicious looking fried rice!
Yum! love double the peas, this looks delicious 🙂