I decided to cook a family dinner for my roommates, and remembered how my dad used to cook shrimp fried rice for my family. My dad’s fried rice is much healthier than Chinese takeout and one of my favorite meals, so I had him teach me how to make it step by step over the phone and wrote down the recipe. There weren’t too many ingredients and they weren’t expensive either especially if you buy the shrimp on sale. I followed the recipe exactly as he said, and it turned out great! My roommates loved it…
DAD’S SHRIMP FRIED RICE J
Ingredients
2 pounds of shrimp
5 eggs
2 ½ cups white rice
1 small onion
1-2 large carrot
½ cup of frozen peas
Canola oil
soy sauce
Directions:
Boil 5 cups of water. Once boiled add rice and cover. Turn heat down to simmer and cook for 20 minutes or until rice is light and fluffy. Peel shrimp and if large cut in half for bite sized pieces. Finely chop onion and carrots. Coat the bottom of a large pot with canola oil and cook shrimp and onions together over medium high heat. After shrimp is fully cooked, take off heat and put aside. Then cook frozen peas and carrots in the large pot over medium high heat until peas are tender. Set aside. Scramble the eggs in the large pot with ¼ tsp. of salt for taste. Remove eggs from pot. Coat the bottom of the pot with canola oil and fry rice over medium high heat. Stir shrimp, onions, carrots, peas and eggs into rice and add soy sauce and pepper for taste. For a more authentic Chinese flavor fry rice in a combination of sesame and canola oil.
