Prawn and egg fried rice is simple and easy to make, perfect if you're just starting out on your cooking journey. The yellowish colour and eggy flavour of the rice comes from adding beaten egg directly to the rice so that it remains moist.
Wash the rice and add 1 3/4 cups of water and cook in the rice cooker one day before.
Once cooked, use a chopstick to loosen the rice and keep it in the fridge until the next day
Remove shells from the prawn and remove the waste from the back of the prawns. Wash and pat dry. If you are not sure how to do this, you can watch my video demonstration of how to clean prawns first.
Place the prawns in a bowl and marinate with prawn marinade ingredients (sugar, salt, sesame oil and egg white) and mix well. Set aside.
Beat the eggs in a bowl and add a pinch of salt
Wash the spring onion and cut into small pieces
Wash the lettuce without cutting it. Spin dry and chill in the fridge for later use.
Loosen the day old rice using chopstick.
Peel and cut the shallots into thin slices
COOKING METHOD
Add 3 TBsp of oil in a wok over medium high heat. Fry the shallots till they are golden brown.
Remove all the shallot into a bowl, leaving the oil in the wok.
Add in the chopped garlic and stir fry until fragrant.
Pour in the cooked rice and quickly toss it with the spatula upwards from the bottom of the wok, mixing the garlic with the rice so that the garlic at the bottom of the wok won’t get burnt.
While stir frying, break up the lumpy rice by apply pressure to the lumps with the back of the ladle. A little water can be sprinkled on the rice to make it easier to loosen the lumps.
Add salt and mix well. Fry for about 10 mins or until it is aromatic. Remove and transfer back into the rice pot for later use.
Add 1 Tbsp of oil in the wok and sauteed the prawns until just cooked.
Pour in the rice and mix well tossing the mixture with the spatula from bottom up. Add light soya sauce and sesame oil and mix well.
Lastly pour in the beaten egg to the rice mixture slowly and tossing it constantly at the same time to ensure all the rice is evenly coated with egg.
Transfer the rice on a platter. Garnish with fried shallots and spring onion. Add a dash of pepper if desired. Serve with lettuce.
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Notes
COOKING TIPS
Make sure the garlic and shallots are not burnt while cooking
Add the beaten egg directly to the rice to give the rice a yellowish color and also giving it a more eggy flavour to the rice.
Make sure that the egg is not overcooked. It should be 90 % cooked so that the rice is moist and bright yellow.
The prawns must be cooked properly or they will be very mushy and powdery.
RICE TIPS
The rice must be cooked one day before. If the rice is cooked just before frying, it will turn out disastrous as the rice will be very lumpy and mushy. When the rice is freshly cooked, it is still moist and soft and it will be impossible to break up the lumps. Good fried rice must be grainy.
If the rice is hard, add more water during the frying before the egg is added to the rice.
Wet the chopsticks or your hands when you loosen the lumpy rice so that it will not stick to the chopsticks or your hands.
Do not use a scoop to loosen the lumps because it tends to break the grain in small bits.