Fried Rice

Total Time: 23 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup uncooked rice (i like basmati, but any long grain rice will do)
• 2 cups water
• 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon powder (e.g. chicken in a mug)
• 1/2 cup frozen peas
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped carrots
• 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger (i buy the jarred already prepared kind, keeps forever in your fridge)
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic (i also buy the prepared kind)
• 1/4 teaspoon chinese five spice powder
• 2 slices bacon, diced
• 2 tablespoons chopped celery
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• sliced green onion, for garnish
• salt & pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 put the first 8 ingredients in a pot. bring to a boil, lower heat to lowest setting, stir ingredients to mix well. cover & ignore for 15 minutes.
• 2 place the bacon and celery in a medium to large sized frying pan and cook until bacon is done and celery is tender. remove from frying pan onto a bowl/plate covered with paper towel to drain.
• 3 drain the excess bacon grease from the frying pan into a bowl and scramble the egg in the frying pan. remove from the frying pan.
• 4 when the rice is done, put some of the excess bacon grease into the frying pan and add the rice mixture, and stir-fry for a couple of minutes. add the bacon & celery mixture, add the egg and stir-fry for a couple more minutes.
• 5 remove from heat, serve, garnish and enjoy.
• 6 the ingredients change depending on what i have in my house -- you can add mushrooms, chicken, shrimp, peppers, beef, lamb - the list is pretty much endless. sometimes i like to spice it up and add dried chili peppers.