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Authentic Chinese Crab Fried Rice
This delicious homemade fried rice starts with crab meat marinated with brown sugar, sesame oil, oyster sauce, rice wine vinegar and soy sauce. Then a mixture of eggs, salt, pepper and rice wine vinegar are cooked in a skillet. After the eggs are scrambled, then garlic, onions, ginger, peas and carrots are cooked until soft. Additional sauce is added to the pan with cooked rice, crab meat and eggs. Everything is tossed together and cooked for a few minutes, then served with green onions.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked rice Jasmine/Basmati, refrigerated
- 1 cup crab meat
Sauce:
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp water
- ½ tsp white pepper powder
Scrambled eggs:
- 2 small eggs
- Salt
- ¼ tsp white pepper powder
- ½ tsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp butter
Vegetables:
- 1 tbsp vegetable or sesame oil
- 1 tsp ginger minced
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 small red onion chopped
- 1 cup frozen green peas and carrots
- Salt
- 1 scallion green chopped
Instructions
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Soak rice for 1 hour before cooking. Cook the rice the night before and refrigerate.
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Mix the sauce ingredients together. Marinate crab in some of the sauce mixture.
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In another bowl, whisk the eggs, salt, pepper and rice wine vinegar.
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In a pan add 1 tbsp butter and the crab and cook. Set aside.
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In the same pan and the eggs and scramble to make tiny pieces. Set aside.
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In the same pan, add 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp oil, add the ginger and garlic, toss until fragrant.
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Add the onion and vegetables and cook until soft. Add the rice, crab, eggs and mix well.
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Add the sauce mixture and mix well. On high heat toss well until rice is cooked well. Sprinkle some water over the rice, cover and cook for a few minutes.
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Add more oil if needed, top with green onions. Serve!
Recipe Notes
Shrimp can be substituted for the crab.