As a lot as I really like bread—baking and consuming it—rice is in my soul. I am not ashamed to say I’ve no issues plowing via a 25-pound bag on my own. For sure, there’s nearly at all times leftover cooked rice in my fridge. Usually I am going to simply freshen it up with a fast steam for a salmon rice bowl or bibimbap. Different instances, I am going to whip up fried rice with no matter I wish to burn up—roast duck, barbecue pork, or ins and outs from the produce bin.

Making good flavorful fried rice is as a lot about method as it’s about components. Leftover rice is right, however as long as your rice is sufficiently chilled, the freshly cooked selection works simply as nicely. There are additionally methods to compensate for the dearth of excessive B.T.U.s in residence kitchens—corresponding to utilizing a kitchen torch to attain the smoky aroma and taste of traditional wok hei and cooking the rice in smaller batches to forestall clumping. Whether or not you are craving restaurant-style shrimp fried rice, omelette-topped Japanese omurice, or flavor-packed nasi goreng we have now recipes to show cooked rice, leftover or contemporary, into crave-worthy consolation meals you will make morning, midday, or evening.