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Serves 4-5 

Ingredients
  • 4 cups cold cooked rice
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 green onion stalks
  • 10oz of frozen vegetable mix or:
1/3 cup each of fresh peas, corn, and diced carrots
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 4oz of chicken/shrimp/beef/tofu, etc
  • 4 tablespoons oil
  • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • if desired:Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
  1. Lightly beat the eggs with salt and pepper
  2. Heat a large frying pan and add 2 tablespoons of oil. When the oil is very hot, add the eggs.
  3. Cook, while stirring occasionally until they are lightly scrambled in curds and are still slightly wet. Remove the eggs and set them aside in a bowl.
  4. Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the pan, sauté the diced onion for 1 minute alone, then add the vegetable mixture.
  5. If using meat or tofu, add at this point and sauté all of them together for 2 minutes.
  6. Add the cold rice to the pan and cook stirring occasionally to break up chunks of cold rice.
  7. Drizzle soy sauce around top of rice and stir to incorporate. Cook for about 5 minutes or until rice is heated thoroughly. 
  8. Add the vegetables and eggs back into pan, combining it all together with the rice
  9. While rice is heating/cooking, wash and chop the green onion into little ringlets.
  10. Immediately before serving, add green onion into the pan, cook for another minute and serve while hot. Season with salt and pepper to taste!



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