Quick and Tasty Fried Rice (5-Minute Meal!)
 
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Super fast, super tasty, you'll need some cooked brown or white rice on hand (also works well with quinoa!) Makes one large serving or two small servings. You can also double the recipe for lunch and dinner for a few days out of the week!
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Recipe type: Quick Lunch or Dinner
Serves: 1 large serving
Ingredients
  • a teaspoon of butter, Earth Balance, or oil (sesame or olive)
  • 2 eggs (1 yolk removed)
  • ¼ of a white onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1½ teaspoon gluten-free tamari (more or less to taste)
  • ½ cup cooked white or brown rice
  • 3 leaves of kale, chopped (you can also use spinach, zucchini, add some red pepper, carrot, really whatever is in the fridge)
  • Optional (yet highly encouraged) add ons:
  • Drizzle of toasted sesame oil
  • Pinch of crushed red pepper
  • sesame seeds
Instructions
  1. Heat a small frying pan on medium-high. Lightly coat the pan with the oil so nothing sticks. As it heats, chop veggies. Add them to the hot pan (all but the kale or spinach since this cooks quick).
  2. Cook veggies until they start to get soft.
  3. Scooch them to the side and add the egg (if the pan is really dry put a little oil in first). Flip the egg once almost cooked through and then break it up with your spatula.
  4. Next add the rice, greens and tamari and a splash of water if things start to stick (TIP: use water not oil at this point! The key is to have the pan hot enough that it browns the veggies but without smoking and burning everything, and adding enough water so it doesn't dry out, but not so much that it is soupy and can't brown up nice).
  5. Mix it all up, cover and cook until greens turn bright. Add a little drizzle of toasted sesame oil and a pinch of red pepper.
  6. Serve warm with sesame seeds sprinkled on top.
Recipe by Krissy Leonard at https://krissyleonard.com/quick-and-tasty-fried-rice-5-minute-meal/