Mock Chicken Fried Rice Recipes

CHICKEN FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Combine the chicken and marinade ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine the hot water, sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, and white pepper in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Take your cooked rice and fluff it with a fork or with your hands (you can rinse your hands in cold water if the rice starts sticking to them). If you are using cold leftover rice, try to break up the clumps as best as possible.
• Heat the wok over medium high heat and add 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the eggs and scramble them until just done. Remove from the wok immediately, and set aside.
• Heat the wok until just smoking and spread another tablespoon oil around your wok. Sear the marinated chicken in one layer for 20 seconds. Stir-fry the chicken until about 80% done. Remove the chicken and set aside.
• With the wok over medium high heat, add the final tablespoon of oil, and sauté the onions until translucent. Add the rice, and use your metal spatula to flatten out and break up any large clumps. If the rice is cold from the refrigerator, continue stir-frying until the rice is warmed up, which will take about 5 minutes. Sprinkling just a little water on large clumps of rice will help break them up more easily. If the rice was made fresh, cooking time will be faster. Just make sure that the rice isn't too wet--which will make frying it difficult.
• Once the rice is warmed (very important or the sauce will not mix as well and the color of the rice will not be as uniform), add the sauce mixture and mix with a scooping motion until the rice is evenly coated with sauce. Break up any remaining clumps of rice with the spatula. The rice should be hot by this time. Now add the cooked chicken, along with any juices from the bowl. Stir-fry for 1 minute.
• Add the eggs, bean sprouts, and scallions, and continue stir-frying the rice for another 30 seconds. Then gather all of the rice into the middle of the wok to let the sides of the wok heat up.
• After about 20 seconds, spread the Shaoxing wine around the perimeter of the wok and stir-fry for another 20 seconds. This step gives you a little of that extra "wok hei" that you taste when you get fried rice from a good Chinese restaurant. Serve!

PF CHANGS FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Heat chicken broth (or water) in sauce pan to boiling
• Add rice and turn down to simmer for 15 minutes until liquid is gone and rice is fluffy
• While rice is cooking, whisk together soy sauce, mustard, ginger, garlic and molasses and set aside
• Once rice is ready remove from heat
• Place stir fry pan on heat and add 1 tsp of sesame oil
• Crack eggs into pan and scramble in pan
• Once eggs are scrambled, add 1 tsp sesame oil to pan
• Add carrots, green onion, peas and bean sprouts - stir fry for 3-4 minutes
• Add remaining tsp of sesame oil and rice and stir fry for 3-4 minutes
• Spread rice around pan - up around sides - so rice is spread out as much as possible
• Add soy sauce mixture and stir fry additional 3-4 minutes
• Serve and top with green onions

*MOCK* CHICKEN FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Prepare rice as directed, putting the chicken bouillon cubes in the water as it heats.
• In a skillet, place soy sauce and whatever vegetables you want in your rice, cooking thoroughly. Add garlic powder and salt to taste.
• In a separate pan, cook the eggs and then shred them (optional).
• When the rice is finished, put it into the skillet with the vegetables and soysauce, then add egg shreds. Mix, serve, and enjoy.

CRISPY RICE CEREAL-COATED FRIED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pour the oil halfway up the sides of a very large cast-iron skillet. Heat the oil to 350 degrees F.
• Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Line a second rimmed baking sheet with a cooling rack. While the oil heats, combine the flour and House Seasoning in a shallow dish. Whisk together the milk and eggs in a separate shallow dish. Place the crushed cereal in a third shallow dish. Season the cereal with salt and pepper.
• Sprinkle the drumsticks with salt and pepper. Dip the chicken in the seasoned flour and coat completely. Dip in the egg mixture, then dredge in the rice cereal, pressing to coat evenly. Place on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
• Fry the chicken, in batches, in the hot oil until golden brown and an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest portion (avoiding bone) registers 165 degrees F, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove to the wire rack to drain.
• Stir together the garlic and onion powders, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Store in an airtight container.

MOCK FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Using a Rice Cooker, cook the Jasmine Rice. (You can use a different method to cook it, if you want.).
• Scramble and Cook the egg.
• Chop egg up and put on a small plate.
• When rice is done, add garlic salt, stir with rice still in cooker.
• Stir in Soy Sauce, and egg.
• Enjoy!