Five spice chicken fried rice
A super flavourful and quick fried rice with chicken and veggies, flavoured with the very fragrant Chinese five spice powder
Equipment
- Shallow cooking pot
Ingredients
- 300 g Boneless chicken cut into thin strips
- 2 cups Jasmine or any long grain rice cooked
- 3 tbsp Chinese five spice powder
- 1 cup mixed vegetables finely chopped (optional)
- ¼ cup spring onion greens sliced
- ½ cup shallots or regular onions chopped
- 2 tbsp garlic chopped
- 2-3 tbsp fresh chillies slit (optional)
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp white pepper powder
- 1 tbsp black pepper powder
- 1 tbsp chili oil optional
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 3 tbsp sesame oil or any regular cooking oil
- salt to taste
Instructions
- If using freshly cooked rice, cool it completely before using it for the fried rice
- Marinate the chicken with, two tablespoons of the five spice powder, white pepper powder, a tablespoon of soy sauce and salt for 10 minutes
- Heat your cooking pot over, high heat, with the cooking oil and add the shallots, chilis and garlic. Saute until the garlic becomes fragrant
- Then add your marinated chicken, stir and cook for 5-7 minutes until cooked completely. Next add the vegetables (if using)
- Mix and cook for another 5-6 minutes (you want the vegetables to remain crunchy). Next add the rice, remaining five spice powder, chili oil, remaining soya sauce and black pepper
- Toss the rice well with the spices, vegetables and chicken so that every grain is coated with flavours. Turn the flame off and sprinkle the spring greens and the vinegar* and gently mix in and remove from heat
- Serve your delicious Chinese five spice chicken fried rice fresh and hot with some lime wedges on the side and even a fried egg, if you wish. Enjoy!
Notes
- You may replace chicken with shrimps, paneer or tofu. Keep the marination process unchanged
- You may also add scrambled eggs to the fried rice. Add it when you are adding the rice in step 5
- Adding the vegetables in this fried rice is optional
- I have used boneless chicken thighs for this recipe
- *Do a taste check to see if you need to add salt. I didn't add any since the marinated chicken and the soya sauce had salt enough for my taste
- g - grams
- tsp - teaspoon
- tbsp - tablespoon
- 1 cup = 250 millilitres