Sneaking in some veggies!

Ok, so I may the tendencies of a small child when it comes to veggies.  In general it’s best if they’re snuck into a recipe rather than the star…  And egg fried rice is wonderful for that!  The last couple of nights I’ve only been feeding myself so I took this opportunity to have egg fried rice (the boy doesn’t really like rice…).

Except, because I’m feeling poor and penniless (the new job forgot to pay me at the end of the month…), I couldn’t afford prawns so I had a red pepper, chopped mushrooms and grated carrot.  Do you see how I snuck the carrot in there?!  And grated as well so you don’t accidently end up with a mouth full of just carrot!

Chopping veggies up really small or grating them is an excellent way to try them, or to get small children to try them!  Butternut squash is pretty good grated in the egg fried rice.

Just be warned, this will not work for all veggies, cutting an onion up really small will not fool me or the boy, we will find it and we will reject the meal!

Home alone

Tonight I am home alone!  It’s become something of a rarity recently so I’m planning on taking full advance of it; I’ve finally decided upon a lovely dinner of egg fried rice with prawns and will settle down with a glass of something cold and white and watch American Beauty.  It’s a film I’ve been meaning to see for years but have only just got round to buying.

Egg Fried Rice

Rice

Oil

Beaten egg

Salt and Pepper

Chilli Flakes

Red Pepper

Prawns

Soy Sauce

• Cook the rice and then cool quickly by running cold water through it.  Preferably do this the night before using left over rice.
• Heat a little oil in a frying pan then add the rice (be careful, if there is too much water in the rice then you’ll end up with lots of little explosions!) and cook for a couple of minutes, continually stirring the rice.
• Push the rice to one side of the frying pan and add the beaten egg with a little more oil.
• Use chopsticks to break the egg up as it starts to cook.  Slowly work the rice and egg together.
• Add chopped pepper and the prawns and allow to cook for a couple of minutes.
• Season with salt, pepper and chilli flakes then pour on some soy sauce.

I like to serve this with prawn crackers.