Egg Fried Rice Recipe

Egg Fried Rice Recipe, simple rice dish is made with eggs, cooked rice, soy sauce and vinegar. Fried rice is a great quick lunch option which is easy to make and taste so delicious. I have shared authentic egg fried rice and restaurant style egg fried rice in this blog post. Learn how to make the best street food style egg fried rice with step by step pictures and video.

Egg Fried Rice

This fried rice is an instant fix, if you have leftover rice or want to pack a quick lunch for your kids. I have few more version of fried rice. I have quite a few fried rice recipe in this blog, both veg and non veg. But this is one recipe which i make quite often, it is not traditional fried rice, it is a street food style recipe which i love so much.

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• About Egg Fried Rice
• Video for Egg Fried Rice Recipe
• Egg Fried Rice Ingredients
• Best Rice for Making Egg Fried Rice
• How to Cook Rice for Fried Rice
• How to Make Egg Fried Rice (stepwise pictures)
• Egg Fried Rice with Vegetables
• Variations of Egg Fried Rice
• Expert Tips
• 📖 Recipe Card

If you have some leftover rice, you can make this the next day and enjoy it, somedays I purposely cook a little more rice to make this. I made this today and enjoyed it with pepper gobi. But you can serve it with variety of side dishes including dragon chicken and chilli chicken.

About Egg Fried Rice

Fried rice is one of the easy recipe you can put together with leftover cooked rice. It is also known as egg fried rice or egg rice. It is one of the popular dish which is enjoyed in and around Asia & India. Making a simple egg fried rice requires basic ingredients like leftover cooked rice, eggs, soy sauce, garlic, spring onions.

Authentic egg fried rice doesn't have complicated ingredients. It is made mainly with cooked rice, eggs, spring onions and seasoning. Sometimes people tend to add soy sauce and msg to replicate restaurant style fried rice.

In this blog post of fried rice with eggs, I have shared authentic version and restaurant style egg fried rice with vegetables. You can check out both recipe and make whichever you prefer. You can check honey chicken and chilli egg which makes perfect side dish.

The key point for making perfect fried rice requires cooked rice. Leftover rice or day old cold rice makes the best tasting egg fried rice. Adding MSG which gives restaurant style taste, you can skip it if you want.

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Egg Fried Rice Ingredients

Rice - You can use cooked basmati rice or jasmine rice. Any Short grain or long grain rice can be used. Only important thing is the rice has to be a day old. Cooked, cooled rice makes the best fried rice.

Eggs - Add good quality, free range, organic eggs.

Aromatics - Ginger, Garlic, Green chillies & Onions are the only basic ingredients you need to make a perfect egg fried rice.

Vegetables - carrots, capsicum and beans can be added.

Sauces - I add only soy sauce in my egg fried rice. a dash of vinegar or chilli sauce can be added.

Seasonings - msg is used in restaurant style egg fried which can be replaced with stock powder or a dash of extra soy sauce. 

How to make Egg Fried Rice at Home (3 Easy Steps)

Cooking rice

Start by cooking Rice, Wash rice in lots of water, soak it for 30 mins. Drain it and take it in pressure cooker, cover it with 1.5 cup of water and some salt. Cover and pressure cook for 1 whistle. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Now open the cooker and invert the rice to a bowl or plate and fluff it up, let it cool completely.

Preparing Eggs

Take eggs in a bowl, season with some salt and mix well. Heat 1 tblspn of oil in a kadai or wok. Pour the egg mix in and scramble it. Once it is scrambled, remove it to a plate.

Making Fried rice

Now Heat oil in a wok or big kadai. Add in garlic, spring onion whites, green chillies. Saute for couple of mins. Add cooked rice, along with salt, sugar, msg, soy sauce, vinegar and pepper powder and toss. Add in cooked eggs and spring onion. Toss once and Serve hot.

Best Rice for Making Egg Fried Rice

There are many varieties of rice available in the market, it is important to choose the correct rice for making fried rice. Long grain rice is the best choice sine it has less starch content than short grain rice. Starch content makes the stir fry rice sticky and mushy so it is best to avoid them. 

Sticky rice or sushi rice has more starch in them so it cannot be used for making fried rice. In my opinion it is best to use jasmine rice, long grain rice or basmati rice. Jasmine rice has a nice chewy texture to the rice which I really liked in my nasi goreng recipe. But most of the Indo-Chinese restaurants use basmati rice in their fried rice. 

Cooking the rice a day in advance and storing it in fridge is important for making fluffy fried rice just like take out. Cold rice makes the best fried rice. Every time I want to make fried rice, I like to cook my rice a day in advance and store in fridge. Fresh rice won’t work for fried rice since the rice grains may break when stir frying.

Leftover cooked rice from the previous day can be stored in an air tight container in fridge for upto 3 to 4 days and turned into fried rice whenever you need. In many Asian convenience store, cooked rice is sold in separate containers specially for making fried rice.

How to Cook Rice for Fried Rice

For fried rice you have to take great care when cooking rice. Traditionally in Asian household rice cooker is used to cook rice which is easy, convenient and timesaving. But if you don’t own a rice cooker, you can cook rice in just a sauce pot. There are two method in which you can cook rice for fried rice. Draining method and absorption method. Any which way you choose, cooking rice is quite easy. Make sure you check my blog post “how to basmati rice”for detailed instructions. 

Absorption Method

Cooking rice using absorption method is by far the easy way to cook rice. All you have to remember is to follow few steps and the correct ratio of water to rice. Rice cooked using absorption method needs to sit in the fridge and get cold before making fried rice. 

Ratio for Cooking Rice

• 1 cup basmati rice
• 1.5 cup water
• 1 tsp salt

1. Take rice in a bowl and wash it really well with different changes of water. Now take it in a bowl and cover with water. Let it soak for a minimum of 15 mins, you can soak it up to 1 hour max.
2. Now strain the rice, take it in a sauce pan. Cover with 1.5 cup of water, add some salt and mix well. Bring this to a boil, cover the pot and simmer to the lowest flame. Cook this for 12 to 15 mins by which time the rice must have absorbed all the water.
3. Now turn off the heat, open the lid and fluff it with a fork. Cover the pot again and leave to sit for 15 minute. Use as required.

Draining Method

The key point you have to remember when cooking basmati rice by draining method is, you have to always stand near it and also keep on tasting the rice, so you never end up in mushy sticky rice.

Ratio for Cooking Rice

• 1 cup basmati rice
• 5 to 6 cups water
• 2 tsp salt

1. Take rice in a bowl and wash it really well with different changes of water. Now take it in a bowl and cover with water. Let it soak for a minimum of 15 mins, you can soak it up to 1 hour max.
2. Take water and salt in a sauce pan. Bring it to a full boil. Once it starts to boil, strain the soaked rice in a colander and add it into the water. Cook until rice is tender which will take around 6 to 7 minutes. 
3. Once rice is cooked, strain the rice in a sieve and cover with a lid for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes you can spread the rice in a plate and use as required.

How to Make Egg Fried Rice (stepwise pictures)

Scrambling Eggs

1)Take all your ingredients. Make sure you get ready with all your ingredients. I chopped some spring onions, green chillies, garlic. Make sure you prepare all these steps before you start cooking.

Crack open few eggs in a bowl. I like to mix my egg with salt in a bowl before adding it into the wok for even mixing. Season with eggs to your liking. I added some salt alone. You can season eggs with white pepper powder and soy sauce too.

2)Scramble it well using a fork till egg white and yolk is mixed well and set aside.

Cooking Scrambled Eggs

3)Now we are going to make scrambled eggs. Heat oil in a large wok or a kadai. Make sure the heat is on high. We are going to make this fried rice in super high heat. I am using toasted sesame oil for making this fried rice. You can use any oil of your choice.

4)Add eggs into the oil and mix well. Keep mixing it and keep cooking till the eggs are cooked.

5)use a spatula or ladle to scramble the eggs in the hot oil. it will cook very quickly. keep mixing till it gets to your liking.

6)Don't over cook the eggs, because it may get rubbery. So scramble it lightly and remove.

7)Remove the scrambled eggs to a plate and set aside.

Stir Frying Aromatics

8)Heat more sesame oil in the same wok. Let the oil get super hot.

9)Add in the chopped garlic, chopped white part of 2 spring onions and 1 chopped green chillies.

Optionally you can use finely chopped onions, capsicum or ginger.

10)Make sure you chop them finely. Stir fry on high heat for 2 minutes.

Adding Cooked Rice

11)Now add in the cooked and cooled rice. You can use any variety of rice as you like. I am using basmati rice.

12)Now lets season the fried rice. Sprinkle some salt over it.

13)Add in sugar to taste. Even though sugar is optional, it makes the fried rice taste amazing.

14)Add in lemon juice or a splash of vinegar. This adds a little tang to the fried rice.

15)For restaurant taste fried rice, you have to use MSG or ajinomoto. If you don't want to use this, you can skip.

16)Add in soy sauce. I am using dark soy sauce which adds a depth of flavour and colour.

17)Add in pepper powder. You can use white pepper powder for a subtle taste or black pepper.

18)Toss the rice with all the spices and flavourings.

Adding Eggs

19)Now finally add in the cooked scrambled eggs and chopped spring onion white part alone.

20)Stir fry this together for 1 minute. Egg Fried rice is ready to serve. Enjoy Hot with any side dish of choice.

Egg Fried Rice with Vegetables

Even though the above version of egg fried rice is said to be the authentic recipe. I like to make this version with lots of vegetables for my kids. My kids enjoy fried rice, so I like to sneak in lots of vegetables into the fried rice when stir frying.

I like to use carrots, green beans, capsicum in my fried rice. But you can use green peas and chopped cabbage. Cooked prawns or chicken can be mixed into the fried rice as well.

The recipe remains the same as above but with added vegetables. This fried rice is more healthy, filling and nutritious specially for kids. This also is a great recipe to use up leftover rice, bits and pieces of vegetables in the fridge.

Ingredients for Making Egg Fried Rice with Vegetables

• 2 cups Cooked Basmati Rice
• 1 + 1 tbsp Oil
• 3 Eggs
• 2 tbsp Garlic chopped finely
• 2 Spring onions (white & greens separated)
• 2 Green Chilli chopped finely
• ¼ cup Carrot chopped finely
• ¼ cup Green beans chopped finely
• ¼ cup Capsicum chopped finely
• 2 tsp Soy Sauce or to taste
• 2 tsp Vinegar or to taste
• 1 tsp Pepper Powder 
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp Sugar or to taste

How to Make Egg Fried Rice with Veggies

Scrambling Eggs

1)Crack open few eggs in a bowl. I like to mix my egg with salt in a bowl before adding it into the wok for even mixing. Season with eggs to your liking. I added some salt alone. You can season eggs with white pepper powder and soy sauce too.

2)Scramble it well using a fork till egg white and yolk is mixed well and set aside.

3)Now we are going to make scrambled eggs. Heat oil in a large wok or a kadai. Make sure the heat is on high. We are going to make this fried rice in super high heat. Add a tbsp of oil in the wok.

Pour in the eggs and start cooking it medium high heat. Keep mixing so it scrambles to your liking. Remove the scrambled eggs to a plate and set aside.

Stir Frying Aromatics

4)Heat some more oil in the same wok. Add in finely chopped garlic, spring onion whites and mix well.

5)Add in chopped green chillies and stir fry these three for 1 to 2 minute.

Cooking Veggies

6)Add in finely chopped vegetables. I am using carrots, green beans, capsicum. You can use cabbage and green peas too. Make sure you chop the vegetables very fine so it cooks quicker.

7)Add in salt, sugar to the veggies and cook on high heat for 2 minutes.

Adding in Cooked Rice

8)Add in cooked cooled rice. I am using cooked basmati rice. You can use any rice of your choice. Once the rice is added, toss it really well.

9)Add in soy sauce and vinegar. Both these are to taste. You can add more or less as per your taste.

10)Toss the rice with these sauces.

11)Add in black pepper powder, cooked scrambled eggs and chopped spring onion green parts.

12)Toss well, thats it your egg fried rice with vegetables is ready.

Variations of Egg Fried Rice

Even though Egg fried rice is very basic recipe. It can be modified according to your taste.

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Expert Tips

• Make sure you use day old cooked rice for best texture.
• Eggs amount can be increased as per your taste.
• For added taste, egg fried rice can be topped with a fried egg.
• Chilli oil can be drizzled for added taste.

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