Ham and sausage fried rice
Salty Chinese ham joins sweet Japanese sausage in this bright and festive fried rice. A wonderful one bowl meal!
Servings 6 people
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil divided
- ½ cup chopped shallot
- ½ cup chopped carrot
- ½ teaspoon minced garlic
- ½ cup chopped bell pepper
- salt
- pepper
- 1 cup chopped Chinese ham
- 1 cup chopped Japanese sausage or any sweet Asian sausage
- ½ cup sweet peas
- 3 eggs lightly beaten
- 6 cups day-old rice
- 3 to 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
Instructions
- In a large wok or frying pan, heat two tablespoons cooking oil.
- Add the bell pepper, sprinkle in a little salt and pepper, and stir fry for another half a minute.
- Add the ham and sausage, and stir fry for a few minutes until the pieces of meat are starting to brown along the edges.
- Add the peas, stir fry for half a minute, and scoop out the meat and vegetables into a bowl.
- Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil in the pan and pour in the beaten eggs. Sprinkle in salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring, until no longer wet. Using your spatula, break into small pieces without removing from the pan.
- Add the rice to the eggs and pour the soy sauce over the rice.
- Stir fry until the rice is heated through.
- Take the cooked ham, sausage and vegetables and add to the rice and eggs.
- Stir fry for a minute then taste and adjust the seasonings, if needed.
- Off the heat, drizzle in the sesame seed oil, toss everything thoroughly and serve.
