Does anyone have a good recipe for restaurant style fried rice?

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   emichaelposted 12 years ago

   Does anyone have a good recipe for restaurant style fried rice?
   
   I've tried to make fried rice before, and it was a bit of a disaster. Not that it tasted bad, it just wasn't anything like restaurant fried rice. The rice was too mushy and tended to clump together. Yes, I used chilled rice, and yes I have a large wok. Does anyone have a good recipe or good advice?
   
   

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   Bobri Dobriposted 12 years ago

   I cooked fried rice few days ago and it turned out very tasty and I could say 'restaurant-style'. I thing the secret is in plenty of oil and frying.. Not most healthy thing for sure, but very tasty! As for my recipe.. Actually I found about 3 recipe in the internet, but I didn't have enough ingredients for any of them, so I did my own based in what i have. And I had shrimps, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, garlic and of course rice and eggs. I prepared 3 separate things:
   1.I fried a lot of onions + a lot of garlic+chili, then put shrimps there to cook it in such sauce. I had pre-cooked shrimps, so I just let them to boil and soak in sauce a little bit and set aside.
   2. I fried chopped zucchini with chopped tomatoes until ready and set aside
   3. I boiled rice and added butter to ready rice. Stirred well. Butter improves the taste of rice and helps it be separate. Set aside.
   
   Then I whisked egg, took big wok, put a lot of olive oil there + a lot of garlic again + a lot of curry powder + chili. When oil had became hot, I put rice there and let it fry a little bit to absorb oil with spices (about 5 min). Then I added remaining components (fried shrimps with onion and fried zucchini with tomatoes), and stirred well. As finish touch I added whisked egg while stirring continuously and cooked 1-2 minutes more to be sure than egg is ready.
   
   It turned out VERY tasty! Hope it helps.

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   RHinckposted 12 years ago

   Damn, I just made myself hungry for fried rice!

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   Azreen Chanposted 12 years ago

   The rice was too mushy because you put too much water.
   You need to make it like this : 1 cup of rice + 2 cup of water. If it's still mushy, use less water.
   
   Usually different type of rice uses different amount of water.
   
   Good luck!

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