Makatos Bacon Fried Rice Food

BACON FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp.
• Add onion and stir fry for 1 minute.
• Add egg and scramble until egg forms small flakes.
• Stir in rice and garlic, continue to stir fry until heated through.
• Gently separate grains of rice with fork so mixture is fluffy.
• Add soy sauce and stir until mixture is well blended.

BACON FRIED RICE WITH A SIDE OF TOMATOES IN FISH SAUCE...

Steps:

• In a large skillet, saute the bacon, garlic, carrot, peas and onion in butter until bacon is no longer pink. Remove from skillet and set aside. In same skillet, cook and stir egg over medium heat until completely set. Stir in the rice, soy sauce, accent seasoning, pepper, and bacon mixture; heat through. Serve!
• Note: You may replace the eggs and bacon with tofu and add hot peppers if you are a vegetarian.
• Tomatoes in Fish Sauce:.
• In a bowl, combine tomatoes, onions and fish sauce. Serve with Spam or Smoked Milkfish and Fried Rice. Yummy!

BACON GARLIC FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Slice the bacon slices cross ways into small slivers. This works well if you keep your bacon frozen. Thaw enough to slice and then just slice off your pieces of bacon across so you have a bunch of thin strips. Fry the slivers of bacon in a large wok or pan and then remove the bacon to drain on a paper towel. Reserve some of the bacon fat, about 2-4 tbsp, or use vegetable oil, or use a mixture.
• Lightly fry the garlic in the bacon fat/oil in the same pan you fried the bacon. Don't let the garlic get brown. Add the cold rice and the peas and carrots and let it all warm at high temperature and break up the big pieces of rice. It's ok for there to be some clumps of rice remaining. It is important your rice is cold when you start or the fried rice will get gluey and mushy. Day old rice is best, but if you want to make your rice fresh and then fry it, cook the rice and put in a flat baking pan in the freezer to cool for 30-60 minutes first.
• After about 5 minutes, or once the rice is heated through make a well in the center of your rice. Add your eggs and stir them slightly. I like to cook the egg most of the way through in the well, and then slowly bring in the remaining rice which gives some eggy chunks as well as a light coating of egg on some of the rice. Another option is to lightly fry the scrambled egg separately first and then add it to the fried rice.
• The last step is to add the soy sauce, crumble bacon pieces over, mix, taste and add salt if desired.
• This fried rice is surprisingly simple, but really awesome. I always use the frozen peas/carrots, but other veggies can work. Never use canned veggies, and ones that release water (like tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, squash) can be tricky, because your rice can get mushy. Fresh carrots, broccoli, snap peas, bell pepper, frozen/fresh corn have been tried and all work.

BACON FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Heat skillet on medium-high. Add 2 tablespoons of the canola oil, the onion and the white and light green scallion slices, and cook for 2 minutes.
• Add the garlic, 1 tablespoon of the oil and the cooked rice and stir to coat. Add the peas and stir again.
• Make a large well in the rice and add the remaining 2 tablespoons of the oil and the eggs. Let the eggs set for 1 to 2 minutes, then scramble them with a fork and cook for 2 minutes more.
• Stir the eggs into the rice, breaking them up into small pieces.
• Turn off the heat. Add the bacon, half of the dark green scallion slices and the sesame oil and stir. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer the fried rice to a serving platter and top with the remaining scallions.