Chicken and Baby Corn Fried Rice
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I love December! Everyone is in a jolly good mood all the time, not much’s happening at work, too many parties to go to, commute is pretty good most of the days and the streets are so colorful! I am avoiding the mall these days, which is where most of the ugliness of the season takes place. Just thinking about January makes me so sad! It was so hard to go back to work on Monday after the Thanksgiving week. So January will be even worse, after all the Christmas and New Year’s eve fun! Everything will get back to normal all of a sudden without a break in sight till memorial day. I guess we just have to enjoy this season while we can!
Talking about the Monday after Thanksgiving, I was pretty depressed and was in a very lazy mood. We got back home early from work, but were not in the mood to cook anything elaborate. Fried rice is a great dish for such days, especially if you have leftover rice in the fridge. This fried rice was ready in a jiffy, and made a wonderful meal on its own.
Ingredients
(Serves 4. Measures for the sauces are just guesstimates, use more or less to taste)
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast (~ 1lb)
- 1 can baby corn
- 3 eggs , scrambled
- 1 bunch green onions
- 2 tbsp thinly sliced shallots
- For the spice paste
- thinly sliced shallots – 1/4 cup
– 4 cloves garlic
– 4 dry red chilies - oil for shallow frying
- 4 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp white pepper powder
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- salt to taste
- 4 cups cooked and cooled rice
Method
Pound the chicken breast with a meat tenderizer to flatten it as much as you can. Cut into thin strips.
Using a mortar and pestle, pound the ingredients for the spice paste – shallots, garlic and red chilies to make a coarse paste. Keep aside.
Slice the white parts of the green onions into thin pieces, and cut the dark green part to long strips.
In a large wok, heat oil and add the chicken pieces. Season generously with salt and freshly ground pepper and stir fry till the pieces turn white. Add 2 tbsp dark soy sauce and stir well. Cook till all the moisture gets completely absorbed and the chicken pieces starts to brown. Remove and keep aside.
Add some more oil to the wok and stir fry the baby corns for a couple of minutes till heated through, but still crispy. Keep aside.
Add the sliced shallots to the same wok and stir fry till brown. Remove and keep aside.
Now add more oil to the wok and add the white part of the green onions to the wok, saute till soft. Add the spice paste to the wok and stir fry till fragrant. Add the rice and mix well to coat the rice evenly with the spice paste. Add the remaining soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice vinegar and white pepper and mix well to incorporate. Cook for 2 minutes.
Mix in the prepared chicken, baby corns, shallots and the green part of the green onions to the rice and cook for three more minutes. Add the eggs and mix well. Serve warm.
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Category: Chicken, Corn, Rice, Rice Or Biryani, South East Asia
the fried rice is sooooo tempting and I am gonna try this soon.
I dread to think that the next break after this holiday season will only be in May.
I came by to tell you I tried your eggplant Theeyal today. It was FABULOUS – delicious and so flavorful, the recipe is definitely a keeper. Actually, it tastes quite similar to a bitter gourd dish my mum makes – must remember to ask her how she makes it. Can’t wait to try the theeyal with prawns. For the record, my success rate with recipes from L2E has been 100% so far. Thanks Sig!
I don’t like getting back from a vacation either.. and you are right.. December always seems laid back work-wise since the holiday anticipation is so evident..
Fried rice looks great with those babycorns.
Fried rice is one of my favorites. You call that simple? It looks mighty fancy to me Sig
I so know what you mean… but we get only a day off for Diwali, X’mas and NY… so it doesn’t matter that much… but the mood changes definitely.
I’m trying to stay off rice on weekdays… and weekends = full meals!
Yeah i know,i was asking yesteday to hubby when was thenext break he was having after the christma and new year.
I love fried rice and thislooks yumm.
I love the bowl inwhich you have servethe rice.
love the use of so much shallots
i love the flavor. my version of baby corn fried rice was different..
Fried rice looks so wonderful…. I would love to try this… just 4 more days for my trip to India.. All excited to see family n friends.
Hiya Sig, just saw your comment, thanks. We had our 22nd anniversary yesterday, so went to a steak house with kids in tow, was fun although Arvind was on call last weekend!
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I will be back blogging on the 1 st of Jan, vacationing in Orlando this Christmas, need that after all the constant noise and mess in the house for about 3 mnts now although results are great!
Fried rice looks yum, love baby corns in the dishes. Enjoy the week, see you next year. Happy New year in advance. Hugs !
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I love the versatility of fried rice too, and yours looks yum
I also love December soo much..Its soo romantic and even the chillness feels so wonderful.
I loved this fried rice.Have never tried baby corn till date ..wil have to..:)
Hi sig,
Have been reading your blog since last year. I like your restaurant reviews and your food blogs are tempting. Though I am very picky about the food I taste, your restaurant reviews is introducing me to varity of foods .
one small suggestion: can you add a flag about the veg/vegan for each dish your discuss.
I was drooling over siv’s crab receipe during my pregnancy.
That’s an interesting reason to avoid the mall. Most people are avoiding it for other (more practical?) reasons this time around.
Fried Rice has always been a saviour….thanks for this one.
hmmm look at those baby corns, I love them in my fried rice!! is that for my event;)
lovely dish Sig ….. I agree that left over rice make very good fried rice …… the baby corns are looking very tempting
Heavenly fried rice, Sig! Love using leftover rice to make a new and delicious dish.
People at home are not so interested in fried rice as there won’t be any left over rice at all (a strict rule). This chicken rice looks fabulous. Yeah its tough to get back to work after a long vacation (even though in India we do not have such long holidays) but not much is moving at the work front. Its actually a bitter feeling when my kids cry the day I leave for work after the holidays
You have such beautiful tableware.
ehmm…that looks very fancy to me too…
looks lovely!
Hi Sig, I love baby corn, and this recipe is so yum! Also, the use of the baby corns without chopping them is so nice…Guess I will avoid the oyster sauce though.
I love the month of December too!!! Like you said, its so colorful and bright, with all the lighting!! LOved the chopsticks in the pic
What an inviting dish!! thanks for posting, this is definitely going into my friday dinner list!
Miri