Chicken Fried Rice for Kids

You can easily satisfy hungry kids with simple meals such as fried rice, ramen noodles or sandwiches which are quick and easy to prepare in a jiffy.

Today, I was busy with visiting relatives for the Chinese New Year celebration that I had not enough time to thaw the frozen chicken nor wash the vegetables.

However, I was fortunate to have some leftover cooked chicken, a bag of mixed vegetables consisting of green peas and corn kernels.

In order to cook fried rice, you must remember that you have to use overnight cooked rice , doesn’t matter whether it is white rice or brown rice.

You see, overnight rice is brittle and lose, gives chewy bites compare to freshly cooked rice.

Overnight cooked rice isn’t sticky nor goey, not wet or damp and best of all, kids love Chicken Fried Rice.

Yes, use left over cooked chicken, without the skin , cut them into strips or tear them into shreds so that kids could chew them easily.

Most kids do not like thick slices of white chicken flesh because it is hard to chew and they would keep the chicken meat in their mouth for a long time.

Vegetables are wide in variety.

I prefer mixed vegetables that are sold in large packets, usually a mixture of 3 different type of vegetables:

Cubes of carrots

Green peas

Corn kernels

You can use all 3 of them or just use 2 as I did, green peas and corn kernels.

I had also added in another fibre packed vegetable; red pepper also known as red capcium.

Remove the seeds, cut them into small squares but you have to cook them thoroughly before serving the kids.

If your kids dislike spring onion, replace it with chopped chives or shreds of cabbages.

Bring in more vegetables into your fried rice to give your kids more nutrients and protein from the chicken meats.

Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

* 8oz left-over overnight brown rice

* 3 tbsp olive oil

* 1 egg

* 1 small onion- chopped

* 1 small red pepper, remove seeds and chopped

* 8oz cooked chicken- sliced

* 2oz green peas

* 2 oz corn kernels

* 3 tsp light soy sauce

* pepper to taste

* 1 stalk spring onion- chopped

How to prepare this dish:

• Bring out the left-over overnight brown rice from the fridge.
• In a frying pan, heat up 2 tbsp olive oil
• Beat the egg in a bowl with 1 tbsp of water.
• Pour the beaten egg in the pan, in a circular motion.
• Cook both sides until crisp and brownish.
• Remove from pan, place on the chopping board, cut into long strips. Set aside.
• With the remainder olive oil, saute chopped onion, red pepper for 5 min.
• Toss in the green peas, corn kernels, red pepper and cooked chicken, stir fry for a couple of minutes.
• Toss in the cooled brown rice.
• Season with light soy sauce and pepper as according to taste.
• Add in the omelette strips, chopped spring onions and hotdogs!

Serve up to 4 persons

Written by peachpurple

Photo taken by pixabay

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