Belacan Fried Rice

This is a simple fried rice recipe, perfect meal on one of those lazy days when you don't feel like cooking a big meal  ..........  Belacan Fried Rice

Cold or overnight rice is best to make fried rice, as you want the rice to be a bit dry and slightly hard.

Tossed in some egg white which was lying in the fridge

Recipe for Belacan Fried Rice

Ingeredients

4 cups rice, preferably  a  day old or overnight

150 gm prawns

150 gm pork/chicken fillet

1 small carrot, diced

3 kaffir leaves, thinly sliced

Bird's eye chillies, chopped

1 Tbsp Maggi belacan granules

2 pips garlic, chopped

1 egg white lightly beaten

Fish Sauce/Nampla to taste

Seasoning for prawns

1/2 Tsp salt

1/2 Tsp sugar

A dash of pepper

Seasoning for meat

2 Tsp oyster sauce

1.1/2 Tsp Fish sauce

1/2 Tsp sugar

A dash of pepper

Marinate the prawns and meat with the above seasonings

for an hour or more

Preparation

Loosen up the overnight/leftover rice

so that they don't clump together

Heat up the pan with 2 Tbsp oil

Toss in the lightly beaten egg white, stir fry, dish up

Saute chopped garlic with the remaining oil

till fragrant, add in belacan granules, stir-fry

Add in the seasoned meat, fry till cooked

and add in the diced carrot

Add in the rice and continue to fry and mix well

with the meat and carrots.

Toss in the seasoned prawns

Sprinkle some water to make the rice moist,

if necessary

When the rice is jumping in the pan,

it's done. 

Add fish sauce to taste and toss in the egg white

Dish out into a bowl, garnish with a sprinkling

of kiffir leaves for added aroma

Spice up with chopped bird's eye chillies

Serve