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Top-down view of a bowl filled with Shrimp Fried Rice with Extra Crispy Bits, featuring plump shrimp and scrambled egg.

Shrimp Fried Rice with Extra Crispy Bits

This Shrimp Fried Rice Recipe is close to your favorite Chinese takeout. It is easy to put together, and in under 30 minutes, you will get better than takeout, restaurant-style shrimp fried rice.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 4 people
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

For Sauce
  • 1 tsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp Sesame Oil
  • 1 tsp Oyster Sauce
  • 2 tsp Rice Wine Vinegar
  • 2 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
  • 1 tsp Water
  • 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
For Rice
  • 4 Cup Cooked Rice (Jasmine/Basmati), refrigerated Cooked the night before
  • 1 Cup Small/Medium Shrimp cleaned, deveined, marinated with 1 tsp Sauce Mix + salt + 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
  • 2 Tbsp Butter, unsalted
  • 1 Tbsp Vegetable Oil / Sesame Oil
  • 1 tsp Ginger, minced
  • 1 tsp Garlic, minced
  • 1 Small Red Onion, chopped
  • 1 Cup Frozen Green Peas and Carrot
  • As per need Salt
  • 1 Scallion / Spring Onion, greens chopped
For Eggs
  • 2 Small Eggs
  • As per need Salt
  • 1/4 tsp White Pepper Powder
  • 1/2 tsp Rice Wine Vinegar

Equipment

  • Pan or Wok
  • Bowl

Method
 

  1. Soak rice before cooking for at least an hour.
  2. Cook rice the night before the fried rice is prepared and refrigerate it.
  3. In a bowl, mix the ingredients to make the sauce mix.
  4. In another bowl, whisk eggs, salt, pepper powder, and rice wine vinegar.
  5. Marinate shrimp with salt, pepper powder, and the sauce mix.
  6. In a pan, add 1 Tbsp Butter, add the shrimp, and cook till pink and cooked. Keep aside.
  7. In the same pan, add the eggs and scramble to make tiny pieces. Keep aside.
  8. In the same pan, add another 1 Tbsp Butter and Vegetable Oil / Sesame Oil, add the ginger and garlic, and toss till they are fragrant.
  9. Add the onion and vegetables and cook till soft.
  10. Add the rice, shrimp, and eggs, and mix well.
  11. If the rice is cold and has formed lumps due to refrigeration, then lightly break the lumps without breaking the rice.
  12. Add the sauce mix and mix well.
  13. On high heat, toss well till rice is cooked well along with the rest of the ingredients.
  14. Sprinkle some water over the rice, cover, and cook for some time.
  15. Finally, add some more oil if you need, and top with spring onion greens. Serve!

Notes

Use cold rice. Preferably, cook the rice the night before when you plan to cook the fried rice. If the refrigerated rice is hardened to form lumps, then just break the rice lumps lightly with your hands before using them in the recipe.
Always cook vegetables on high heat in a work or any kind of deep pan would work, but make sure you have applied oil to it well, or else the rice will stick to it.
Cook on high heat. To get the smoky flavor in the fried rice, just like from restaurants, always toss the rice on high heat.
Cook each ingredient separately. You have to cook each ingredient separately. Cook the shrimp separately, the eggs, and the veggies, and finally add them all together.
Toss. You have to toss everything well, do not stir, as they will mix up and become mushy.
Butter. Butter is the most important ingredient in making restaurant-style fried rice. Butter is the ingredient that gives fried rice its taste of a perfect takeout menu dish.

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