Kotetsu’s Everything-But-The-Kitchen-Sink Fried Rice - Tiger & Bunny

Kotetsu’s Everything-But-The-Kitchen-Sink Fried Rice - Tiger & Bunny

What could be more perfect of a bachelor food than fried rice? It’s cheap, easy, filling, and good. So it always seemed rather fitting that Kotetsu’s favorite food would be fried rice. That said, I’d like to imagine that Kotetsu would show no restraint when it comes to deciding what to add to the rice. That’s where this recipe comes in. It’s got just about any vegetable you’d want to add to a basic fried rice and a handful of different meats. And best of all? You can make it on the cheap with canned, frozen, and prepackaged foods.

I made up this recipe before Hero Gossips published the official recipe, but they’re pretty similar, so I figured I might as well post mine. Also, as you probably remember from the second to last episode, Barnaby had been practicing making fried rice, too, so hopefully I can get a recipe up for his version of the dish.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cup uncooked white rice (or about 3 cups of precooked white rice)
• ½ cup carrot, chopped
• ¼ cup mushrooms, chopped
• ½ small onion, chopped
• ¼ cup celery, chopped
• ½ cup peas
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 egg
• 1 cup meat (I used 1/3 chicken, 1/3 canned shrimp, 1/3 sliced lunchmeat ham, but you can use whatever is handy)
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce (optional, replace with more soy sauce if you don’t have any)
• ¼ teaspoon fresh ginger (optional)
• Vegetable oil

Directions

1. Cook the rice in a medium sized pot, following this recipe, if you can. If you can cook this the day before, hours before, or use leftover rice, all the better. While using freshly cooked rice isn’t bad, a lot of people find using leftover rice to be preferable.
2. Heat a wok or large frying pan up to medium-high. Once hot, add about 2 tablespoons of oil.
3. Once the oil is hot, add any raw meat you might be using (i.e. raw chicken breast, fresh shrimp). Once it has cooked through, add all of the vegetables, garlic, ginger and the pre-cooked meat.
4. Once the vegetables are cooked (the onion should be kind of clear looking), mix in the mayo. Once you finish mixing, take the veggies/meat/mayo out of the pan, and set it aside in a bowl.
5. Quickly scramble the egg in the wok. Once the egg is cooked, mix in the rice, the veggies/meat/mayo mixture, and add the soy sauce and fish sauce.
6. Stir everything together until all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, and the rice is hot.