U.H. Kitchen

Serving: 1 pax

Time: 1.5 hr

Equipment: Non stick pan, knife, chopping board.

Ingredients: Cabbage, carrot, lettuce, cucumber, egg, balance rice, balance seafood (prawn and squid), garlic flakes, cheese.

Workflow:

1. Pluck lettuce, wash and soak in water with salt.
2. Slice cucumber, wash and soak in water with salt and apple cider.
3. Julienne carrot.
4. Dice the balance prawn.
5. Slice the balance squid.
6. Separate egg yolk and egg white.
7. Add the yolk to the balance rice, stir well.
8. Spray a thin layer of oil inside a bowl.
9. Put a layer of cheese at the bottom of the bowl.
10. Drain lettuce and cucumber.
11. Heat up pan, oil in, rice in, press down evenly to heat up on medium high heat for a while.
12. Toss the rice and press down again, repeat for a few times.
13. Salt, pepper in while tossing the rice.
14. Put in diced prawn and squid, stir for a while at high fire.
15. Once done pour inside the bowl with cheese, cover with a plate and reverse it.
16. Stir fry cabbage and carrot until soft, salt, pepper, plate.
17. Stir fry dice prawn for a while, pour in egg white, salt, pepper, plate.
18. Take out the bowl from the rice.
19. Put lettuce on the side, pour cooked cabbage on top.
20. Lay out cucumber, plate the egg white omelette.
21. Sprinkle the rice with Japanese chili spices.
22. Sprinkle parsley flakes on the cabbage. Serve and enjoy.

Review: I got some balance rice, prawn and squid from my auntie’s lunch, so I decided to cook the fried rice. I got this egg fried rice recipe from Martin’s cuisine on YouTube.¹ He is one of my favorite youtuber for food. Compare to the traditional egg fried rice which I observed when I’m working in the hotel, this is much easier and request little skill and effort. The traditional way is to stir the egg in wok first, follow by the cooked rice. You have to keep stirring fast and furious to get the egg coated onto the rice evenly. However, in Martin’s cuisine, he coat the rice with the yolk in advance, so he don’t need to stir the rice at first. You just need to press down the rice to spread out evenly on the pan to heat up. Toss the rice and press down again. Only stir at the end of cooking.

In my version of egg fried rice, I did not pour in egg white to cook together with the rice. Other dish I tried and I realized that the rice got wet and sticky. Hence, I used the egg white to cook an omelette instead and it turned out to be gorgeous.

Things to note: The fail part of this dish is that the cheese stick to the bowl. That’s why I think of spraying a layer of oil on it to prevent it from sticking. Or may be a ceramic bowl can prevent that too.

Very important tip for the egg fried rice, the rice have to be cool in chiller to drain off extra moist, so that it will not stick to each other.

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Footnote:

¹ 马蹄厨房 Martin’s Cuisine, 黄金脆皮鸡遇上黄金蛋炒饭，视觉味蕾两开花！2019年5月3日上傳, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeYEedn9uEM&ab_channel=%E9%A9%AC%E8%B9%84%E5%8E%A8%E6%88%BFMartin%27sCuisine