Pork Fried Rice
Better than Takeout. Cheaper than a DoorDash Fee.
When it comes to affordable cooking, starches are your best friend. Pasta, rice, potatoes. Cheap, filling and delicious. One of my favorite flavors in the world is chicken fried rice. It’s so simple, so easy, so comforting and packed with flavor. Just one problem, it's getting expensive.
You heard that right. Chicken fried rice, the food of the people, leftover rice with frozen vegetables is getting expensive. Outrageous, ridiculous, the aurdacity (yes the r is intentional) to charge us an arm and a leg for ingredients that cost less than a gas station burrito.
So what do we do about it? We take the cheapest meat in the store and we make pork fried rice instead. Pork, the other white meat, has been disrespected for far too long. It has so much flavor and it is pennies on the dollar compared to its ground counterparts. I’m talking less than $4 per pound.
This recipe highlights cheap ingredients done right, doing more with less and that's what the 99% Cooking Club is all about.
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 8
Ingredients:
2 lbs ground pork
2 tbsp neutral oil
1 medium yellow onion, diced
12 oz frozen peas & carrots (one bag)
4 cloves garlic, minced
3-5 cups cooked cold white rice
Leftover rice is perfect for this recipe. If you have cold rice from a previous meal, go ahead and use that.
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp black pepper
2–3 green onions, sliced (optional)
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