Cooking video: Lazy Fried Rice (Patreon)

Hey everyone, Here's the recipe for the fried rice I made in the UA video. It's worth noting that I'm gonna go off my cookbook's version of the recipe here as I found that the version I did here was suboptimal: the addition of the cabbage really messed with proportions.

Ingredients:

Rice base:

-2 cups/.47L of rice

-4 cups/.95L of water

-salt(optional)

-a bit of butter(optional)

Everything Else:

-1-2lbs/.45-.9kg shrimp, peeled, deveined, and thawed.

-1 bag of frozen veggies

-3-6 eggs depending on taste

-salt (for the eggs)

-a neutral oil that can withstand high heat such as grapeseed, canola, or corn oil

-soy sauce to taste

-a hearty pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)

-on clove of pressed garlic (optional)

Prep and cooking:

-Cook your rice however you prefer to do so. As soon as it's done, place it in a bowl and put it in the freezer uncovered for no more or less than 90 minutes. If you are not planning to make this immediately, cover the bowl and transfer the rice into the refrigerator until you are ready.

-thaw your shrimp if not already thawed and place them on a paper towel-lined baking tray to remove excess water. Salt them to taste as well.

-in a small mixing bowl, beat your eggs and add salt is desired. Set aside until you're ready to cook.

-place a large frying pan on high heat and add the oil of your choice. When oil is shimmering, carefull place your thawed and dried shrimp into the pan and cook about 2 minutes on each side or until they are pink and opaque in color and form a "C is for Cooked" shape. When done, remove them to another paper towel-lined baking sheet to remove excess liquids from them.

-in a large saucepan, heat oil on high and place your cooked rice into the pan, thoroughly breaking it up with a wooden spoon. When rice is no longer clumping together, add in your bag of frozen veggies and mix.

-as soon as the saucepan is fully heated again, make a well in the center of the pan with your rice/veggie mix andn place an extra slash of oil in the center. pour your beaten eggs into the well and stir after 10-15 seconds of cooking. Repeating the stirring every 10-15 seconds until you have lots of little curdley bits. Thoroughly mix the eggs into the rice once cooking is done.

-add the shrimp, red pepper flakes, and pressed garlic into the saucepan. when everything is mixed in, take your soy sauce and pour it over the whole pan in a quick, clockwise motion going further around the pan depending on how salty you want your rice: this should be  bare minimum of one quarter around the pan and a maximum of one full rotation.

-kill the heat and continue to mix your rice until there is no white rice visible in the pan. Serve hot or place into containers for future use.