Leftovers Friendly Fried Rice

10 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cold cooked white rice, better if it day old
  • 3 tablespoons oil
  • 12 cup leftover cooked pork or 12 cup ham, cut in strips
  • 12 cup leftover cooked chicken, cut in strips
  • 14 cup tiny canned shrimp, if desired
  • 1 cup leftover peas or 1 cup carrots or 1 cup corn (If you don't have leftover veggies, thawed frozen veggies work well)
  • 1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
  • 14 cup fresh green onion, chopped
  • 1 egg, fried,cut in small strips
  • soy sauce (I like to use the lite kind)

Directions

  1. 1
    In a wok or large frying pan, cook meats in 1 tablespoon oil until brown.
  2. 2
    Add shrimp to meats and cook together.
  3. 3
    Take out of pan and set aside.
  4. 4
    Crumble the rice in the same pan and fry it with 2 tablespoons oil.
  5. 5
    Add cooked meats, veggies and water chestnuts to rice.
  6. 6
    Add soy sauce to taste.
  7. 7
    In another pan, scramble an egg and cook flat in a small amout of oil (do not scramble egg in the pan, but let it cook flat, like an omelet).
  8. 8
    Cut into strips.
  9. 9
    Add fried egg strips and green onion just before serving.

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