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Quick Easy Chinese Shrimp Fried Rice

Savory rice fried with tender shrimp, garlic, shallots, carrots and peas. This quick and easy shrimp fried rice is made with leftover rice and simple ingredients! Ready in 30 minutes, great for the whole family and restaurant-quality!

Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
27 mins
Servings: 4
Calories: 431 kcal
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese

Ingredients

  • 4 ½ cups cooked jasmine rice day-old and cold (see below Notes for amount of uncooked rice to use)
  • 1 lb jumbo shrimp or large shrimp, peeled & deveined
  • 1 shallot finely diced
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • ½ cup carrot small diced (or sub with corn niblets)
  • ½ cup peas fresh or frozen (or sub with small chopped green beans)
  • 3 large eggs beaten
  • 4 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil
  • ½ green onion finely chopped for garnish
Shrimp Marinade
  • 1.5 teaspoon Regular soy sauce or light soy sauce
  • 1.5 teaspoon Shaoxing cooking wine or dry sherry/dry white wine/chicken broth
  • 1.5 teaspoon cornstarch or potato starch/tapioca starch
  • 1.5 teaspoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil
Sauce
  • 2 tablespoon regular soy sauce or light soy sauce
  • ½ tablespoon dark soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder (aka chicken stock powder)
  • ⅛ teaspoon white pepper or black pepper

Instructions

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  1. In a large bowl, marinate peeled and deveined shrimp with marinade ingredients as listed above for 5 minutes and set aside.
  2. In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine the sauce ingredients as listed. Set aside.
  3. Heat 3 tablespoon or 45 ml of vegetable oil in a large pan or wok on medium-high heat. Fry shrimp until 50% cooked, about 15-20 seconds. Remove the shrimp from the pan and set aside.
  4. Fry garlic and shallots for 10 seconds or until softened. Quickly add in green peas and carrots and fry for another 10 seconds. Push everything to the side of the wok.
  5. Add remaining vegetable oil into empty space. Pour in the beaten eggs, then scramble before mixing with the other ingredients.
  6. Mix in the shrimp. Add rice and pour the sauce around the rice along the edges of the pan. Toss everything together until all rice grains are colored brown. Remove off heat and garnish with green onions.

Notes

  • How much uncooked rice should I use?
  • Measure out 1 ½ measuring cups of UNCOOKED jasmine rice to be steamed in your rice cooker or how you would normally cook your rice. Then dry out the hot or warm rice by spreading it out on a large sheet pan and place the pan in a freezer fully exposing the rice to cold air to remove excess moisture. Then break up the cold rice with clean hands or a rice paddle. 
  • Measure out 1 ½ measuring cups of UNCOOKED jasmine rice to be steamed in your rice cooker or how you would normally cook your rice. Then dry out the hot or warm rice by spreading it out on a large sheet pan and place the pan in a freezer fully exposing the rice to cold air to remove excess moisture. Then break up the cold rice with clean hands or a rice paddle. 

Nutrition Information

Calories 431kcal (22%) Carbohydrates 60g (20%) Protein 28g (56%) Fat 7g (11%) Saturated Fat 2g (10%) Polyunsaturated Fat 2g Monounsaturated Fat 2g Trans Fat 0.03g Cholesterol 282mg (94%) Sodium 1584mg (66%) Potassium 405mg (12%) Fiber 3g (12%) Sugar 3g (6%) Vitamin A 3274IU (65%) Vitamin C 10mg (11%) Calcium 122mg (12%) Iron 2mg (11%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 4Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 431

% Daily Value*

Calories 431kcal 22%
Carbohydrates 60g 20%
Protein 28g 56%
Fat 7g 11%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g 12%
Monounsaturated Fat 2g 10%
Trans Fat 0.03g 2%
Cholesterol 282mg 94%
Sodium 1584mg 66%
Potassium 405mg 9%
Fiber 3g 12%
Sugar 3g 6%
Vitamin A 3274IU 65%
Vitamin C 10mg 11%
Calcium 122mg 12%
Iron 2mg 11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.