Cauliflower Fried Rice
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5.0
144 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
10 mins
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Cook Time
10 mins
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Total Time
20 mins
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Servings
5
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Calories
144 kcal
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Course
Side Dish
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Cuisine
Asian, Chinese-American Fussion
Cauliflower Fried Rice
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Recipe video above. This is how you make cauliflower rice totally delicious - by making Cauliflower Fried Rice! The trick is to cook it hard and fast, just like real fried rice, and to ensure the cauliflower rice are "cooked rice size" rather than blitzed into tiny couscous-size grains. This gives it a real fried rice mouthfeel and eating experience!
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Ingredients
- 1.5 tbsp oil , separated (vegetable, canola, peanut)
- 3 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/2 onion , finely chopped
- 75g/ 2.5 oz ham or bacon , diced
- 1 1/2 cups frozen diced peas, carrots, corn (mix, or other diced fresh veg of choice)
- 400g (4 cups) cauliflower rice, raw (Note 1)
- 2 eggs , lightly whisked
- 2 green onions , finely sliced
Sauce - Mix:
- 1 tbsp Mirin (or Chinese Cooking Wine) (sub dry sherry or cooking sake) (Note 2)
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce (sub Hoisin)
- 1.5 tbsp soy sauce , light or all purpose (Note 3)
- 1 tsp sesame oil , toasted
Instructions
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large skillet over high heat.
- Add garlic and onion, cook for 30 seconds.
- Add ham, cook for 1 minute to release flavour.
- Add frozen vegetables, cook 2 minutes until carrot is almost cooked.
- Add cauliflower and Sauce. Cook, stirring regularly, for 4 minutes until sauce is reduced and cauliflower is almost cooked - firm, tender crisp, not soft and mushy.
- Push the cauliflower to one side of the skillet. Add 1/2 tbsp oil, let it heat up briefly, then pour in egg.
- Leave for 10 seconds, then leisurely scramble it. Once almost cooked, mix egg through cauliflower.
- Toss through green onions then serve immediately!
Notes
- Cauliflower rice - make your own, buy it ready made or frozen. If frozen, thaw and drain well before using. If making your own, key trick is to ensure cauliflower is grated until it's the size of cooked rice, not tiny couscous size. Texture of cauliflower fried rice is much better when it's rice size!
- Mirin or Chinese cooking wine ("Shaoxing wine") is the secret that will make this dish really taste like your favourite fried rice! Substitute with Japanese cooking sake or dry sherry. Non alcoholic sub - reduce Oyster Sauce to 1/2 tbsp and soy sauce to 1/2 tbsp, add 3/4 tsp chicken stock powder (granulated bouillon) into the Sauce.
- Soy Sauce - light or all purpose soy sauce is ideal here, adds flavour without staining rice colour too much. If you only have "dark soy sauce" (will be labelled as such on the bottle) reduce to 1 tbsp. Note the your rice will be stained a dark brown colour (which actually looks very appetising!).
- Storage - best made fresh. It's still pretty good the next day, but on Day 2 and beyond I find it starts getting a bit too wet for my taste. Still edible and decent though!
- Nutrition per serving. Recipe will serve 5 to 6 as a side, or 3 as a meal.
- Half the carbs in the nutrition per serving below is attributable to the peas, corn and carrot so they could be eliminated if you wish to make the carbs even lower. To keep some colour in it, you could toss through baby spinach instead - 1 cup raw spinach only has 1g carbs.
Nutrition Information
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Calories
144cal
(7%)
Carbohydrates
13g
(4%)
Protein
9g
(18%)
Fat
10g
(15%)
Saturated Fat
2g
(10%)
Cholesterol
72mg
(24%)
Sodium
660mg
(28%)
Potassium
438mg
(13%)
Fiber
3g
(12%)
Sugar
3g
(6%)
Vitamin A
4132IU
(83%)
Vitamin C
46mg
(51%)
Calcium
48mg
(5%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 5Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 144 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 144cal | 7% |
| Carbohydrates | 13g | 4% |
| Protein | 9g | 18% |
| Fat | 10g | 15% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Cholesterol | 72mg | 24% |
| Sodium | 660mg | 28% |
| Potassium | 438mg | 9% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 3g | 6% |
| Vitamin A | 4132IU | 83% |
| Vitamin C | 46mg | 51% |
| Calcium | 48mg | 5% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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