How to Cook Stir Fried Brown Rice with Shiitake and Gai Lan
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Ingredients needed to make Stir Fried Brown Rice with Shiitake and Gai Lan:
- 4 cups long-grained brown rice, steamed and chilled
- 8 oz gai lan or Chinese kale
- 4 oz shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and chopped into ¼’’ slices
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ medium yellow onion, finely chopped
- 2 scallions, minced
- 1 ½ tsp packed dark brown sugar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tspm Sriracha hot sauce
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
Cooking instructions for Stir Fried Brown Rice with Shiitake and Gai Lan:
- Separate the gai lan leaves from their stem and chop the latter crosswise into ¼’’ thick chunks.
- Throw them into a bowl and set aside.
- Pile the leaves together and chop them crosswise into inch wide pieces; keep them aside until necessary.
- Whisk the Sriracha, soy sauce and dark brown sugar in a small bowl, until the sugar is dissolved completely and set aside.
- Drizzle a tbsp oil in a large wok and heat it over moderately high flame until it shimmers.
- Toss the mushrooms into the hot oil, along with ½ tsp salt and stir fry for about 3 minutes, or until they brown slightly along their edges; drain them out into a bowl and set aside.
- Pour rest of the oil in the same wok and heat it over moderate flame until it shimmers.
- Throw in the chopped gai lan stems, garlic, onion and season with rest of the salt.
- Give it a good stir and sauté for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions soften.
- Return the mushrooms into the wok, along with the chilled rice as well as gai lan leaves and sauté further, for 4 more minutes, stirring at times, until the leaves wilt and the rice is heated properly.
- Drizzle the sauce blend all over the sautéed mixture and give it a nice stir to coat well.
- Shift it to a side of the wok and crack the eggs into it.
- Cook them for a couple of minutes, stirring often, until they are nearly set and sprinkle a dash of salt to season.
- Stir them all together to mix the eggs with the rice mixture and transfer them to a large serving bowl.
- Top it up with sliced scallions and toss them all together until well distributed throughout the mixture.
- Serve right away.
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