Simple Yangzhou Fried Rice 简易扬州炒饭
This is probably the most famous variety of fried rice in China. This dish involves fine knifework in cutting the ingredients. The resulting dish is flavorful and colorful.
Equipment
- 12“ frying pan
Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked short grain rice (chilled in refrigerator overnight)
- 2 pieces eggs
- 1/4 cups shrimp
- 50 gram prosciutto
- 1/3 cups shelled edamame
- 1 piece carrot
- 4 tbsp olive oil (any oil)
- 0.5-1 tsp salt
Instructions
- If buy shell-on shrimp, peel the shrimp. Rinse with water and mince the shrimp to the size of edamame
- Peel the carrot and mince it to the size of edamame
- Mince the prosciutto to the size of edamame
- Soak the edamame with room temperature water in a small bowl
- Whisk the eggs in a small bowl
- Heat the frying pan at high heat. Add 1 tbsp oil. Make soft scrambled egg. Place it back to the bowl
- Add 1 tbsp oil and keep the high heat, add the minced prosciutto and shrimp. Stir until all the shrimp/prosciutto clumps break into pieces and shrimps turn orange. Put them back to a bowl
- Add 1 tbsp oil and turn heat to medium. Add the the carrots to the pan and stir until soft. Add the rice.
- Add the last tbsp oil. Break the rice clumps by using spatula to press the clumps. At the same time, keep mixing to make sure all rice is coated with coil.
- Add the scramble egg, sautted shrimp/prosciutto. Continue to stir to make sure all the ingredients uniformed mixed. It takes about 3-5 mins
- Once all the ingredients are well mixed and the rice is soft, add the edamame and salt. Stir for 1-2 mins.
- Taste to adjust with addition of salt
Video
Notes
-Short grain rice is used in this recipe. I typically use sushi rice and I rinse the rice throughly before cooking to remove starch as much as possible.
-I precook the rice and chill it in refrigerator for at least one night.
-The authentic Yangzhou Fried Rice use Chinese ham. It is not ready available in my area. I replace it with prosciutto. The final presentation is different but flavor should be pretty similar.
-I sometimes use pancetta together with prosciutto.
-Typical Yangzhou Fried Rice use shiitake mushroom. My kids don't like it.