Fried Rice With Ham

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• cold, cooked long grain rice
• vegetable oil
• 1 -2 beaten egg
• raw shrimp, cut in pieces (optional)
• leftover ham, diced (or any leftover meat, poultry or seafood)
• dry sherry
• light soy sauce (optional)
• frozen peas, defrosted
• sliced yellow onions or spanish onion
• salt
• pepper (optional)

Recipe

• 1 the rice should be smoothed out to get rid of any lumps.
• 2 day old, cold rice works best.
• 3 if using eggs (recommended), lightly beat them with a pinch of salt.
• 4 heat a little oil in your wok, pour eggs in and tilt the wok back and forth to spread evenly.
• 5 lift the edges to let the uncooked portion come in contact with the hot pan so it cooks evenly.
• 6 after the eggs set up a little, lightly scramble them so you have medium small pieces.
• 7 remove eggs to a bowl.
• 8 wipe out wok.
• 9 if adding raw shrimp, heat a little more oil and stir fry them to just cook.
• 10 remove to a bowl.
• 11 wipe out wok again.
• 12 heat a little more oil.
• 13 add the onions& stir fry until they start to darken.
• 14 stir in the rice, breaking up any lumps you missed.
• 15 drizzle a little dry sherry down the sides of the wok.
• 16 (the surface of the wok should be slick with oil. if too dry looking, drizzle a little more oil down the sides of the wok).
• 17 if you want the rice to look brown, drizzle in a little light soy sauce.
• 18 stir in all of the other ingredients and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• 19 continue to stir and cook until heated through.