Breakfast fried rice with ham and eggs
15 min · 34 g protein · 400 cals / serving
Yesterday's rice turned into breakfast in ten minutes: fried hot with diced ham, peas, bean sprouts, spinach and green onions, then tossed with scrambled eggs and a splash of soy sauce and sesame oil. A fried egg on top is optional, a chilli crisp drizzle encouraged.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp canola oil
- 4 oz deli ham, thick-cut, diced
- 3 green onions, whites and greens sliced separately
- 1 cup cooked frozen green peas, no need to thaw
- 1 cup cooked jasmine rice, cold, cooked the day before
- 4 big handfuls baby spinach
- 2 handfuls bean sprouts
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup liquid egg white, or 5 egg whites
- 2 tsp reduced sodium soy sauce
- 3/4 tsp sesame oil
- 1 pinch white pepper, or black pepper
Steps
- Heat the oil in a large nonstick frying pan or wok over high heat. Add the ham and the white parts of the green onions and fry 2 minutes, until the ham catches at the edges.
- Add the peas and the rice, breaking up any clumps, and spread it out. Leave it 1 minute to crisp, then toss and repeat for 3–4 minutes, until hot through. Add the bean sprouts and spinach and toss until the spinach wilts.
- Push everything to one side, pour the beaten eggs and whites into the empty side and scramble them until just set, then break them up and toss them through the rice.
- Take off the heat, add the soy sauce, sesame oil, white pepper and green onion tops, toss once more and serve.
Good to know
Why day-old rice?
Cold cooked rice has dried a little and firmed up, so the grains fry separately instead of steaming into a mush. Freshly cooked rice works if you spread it on a plate and chill it for 30 minutes first.
Bacon instead of ham?
Cooked bacon tastes smokier and saltier, at about 56 instead of 67. Use a little less soy sauce.
Can I add kimchi?
Yes, a handful of chopped kimchi fried with the ham turns it into a kimchi fried rice breakfast. Add it in step 1 and cut the soy sauce to a teaspoon.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 86
- Protein
- (36%)
- 7 g
- Fat
- (27%)
- 3 g
- Carbohydrates
- (37%)
- 8 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 260 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 799 kcal goes into the pot and 953 g of ingredients comes out as about 928 g of food: 86 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.