Fried Rice with Egg and Chinese Sausage

This one of my favourite versions of fried rice, one that leans on the rich taste of (and the fat of) chinese sausages. The addition of spring onion is quite essential too. This recipe is derived from my master recipe for Egg Fried Rice.

Ingredients (For two)

• Steamed jasmine (or other long grain) rice, ideally cooked the day before and chilled in fridge
• 3  regular eggs (65 g), or 2 jumbo ones
• 1 chinese sausage, diced (macedoine).
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 shallot, minced
• 1 stalk spring onion, chopped to get a mix of white and green
• Fish sauce
• One cup cooking oil

Equipment

1. A large wok and ladle
2. A metal sieve, set over matching metal bowl

Mise

Crack and beat eggs up, adding a dash of fish sauce.

Heat about one cup (yes, one cup) of oil in a wok.

Set a metal sieve over a metal, or other heat-proof bowl

Cooking.

This recipe is based on the master recipe for Egg Fried Rice, I suggest visiting the page for a step by step version of the base recipe (with pictures). This recipe is just the basic recipe with the addition of chinese sausage and spring onion. The chinese sausage is also fried in oil for best results

Get everything ready

1. Allow oil in wok to heat till shimmering, about 140 deg C, or slightly more.
2. Give the diced chinese sausage a quick swim in the oil. This will crisp up the external, and flavour the oil. Remove and drain on sieve.
3. Swirl about half the egg into the hot oil, stirring gently to get swirls of egg. The egg must bubble up at once.
4. Pour the entire contents of the wok over a metal sieve, so that the egg is retained by the sieve, and the oil drains to the bowl below.
5. Scoop about 2 tablespoons of the oil back into the wok. Lower the heat slightly
6. Fry garlic till fragrant.
7. Pour rice in, and toss quickly, do not allow the garlic to burn.
8. With a spatula, press the rice, breaking up any lumps completely, till rice is entirely loose, individual grains.
9. Turn up the heat, and toss.
10. Pile rice up, and pour reminder of egg of rice. Toss to coat every grain of rice with egg.
11. Add the diced spring onion.
12. Add the fried egg and chinese sausage you had done earlier to the dish,
13. Toss… adjust seasoning with the fish sauce, and you are done!

Some more picture to guide you below.