Fried Rice

What to do with your left over Easter ham?

Make some fried rice. This is an easy recipe that my kids love! You'll need:

4 cups cooked rice

1 package frozen oriental vegetables or various cut vegetables

4 green onions, chopped

1 package fried rice seasoning

2 cups chopped ham

soy sauce

5 eggs

olive oil

There are a couple key things to do to make a great fried rice.

First, cook up your rice and pour it out on a cutting board or in a 9x13 dish to cool.

If you try to cook with it while hot, it will get mushy.

By letting it cool first, the rice grains will cook up nicely in your recipe and not stick together.

For this recipe, most often I'll thaw out a frozen bag of oriental cut or fried rice style veggies.

Or use your favorite fresh vegetables.

Cook your veggies until just tender.

I had corn, peas, water chestnuts, mushrooms, carrots, red pepper and green onion. I also like to use broccoli and zucchini. What ever you have on hand will work.

I'm using 2 cups of chopped ham, but chicken and shrimp work well too. I even will make it vegetarian style with no meat. (Shrimp is actually my favorite.)

Prep all your veggies and set aside.

Put your eggs in a bowl with 1 Tbsp soy sauce and mix.

I like using an electric fry pan because it gives a large surface to cook up all the fried rice. Heat it to 300° and add 2 Tbsp olive oil. Cook your eggs. Wash out the bowl you were using and after the eggs cook, put them back in the bowl and set aside.