Fried rice

Fried rice is how we, Chinese, like to deal with leftovers. Whatever leftover dishes is tossed in with whatever leftover rice and cooked with some scrambled eggs and scallions. For added flavor, you can add some soy sauce to the mix, which will darken the rice. Personally, I like making fried rice without using leftovers because the flavoring of leftovers interferes with my penchant for eating it with lots of ketchup! Here is my favorite fried rice recipe:

Serves 2

Ingredients:
2 cups rice
2 to 3 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup of milk
1 to 2 scallions, chopped
1 to 2 roma tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup ham/veggie ham, chopped
salt
water
cooking oil (I use olive oil)

Combine the eggs with the scallions and milk. Scramble the eggs in a heated and well-oiled pan or wok. Throw in the rest of the ingredients. If using leftover rice, the mixture may be too dry, in which case you should add some water. Mix everything up well and if the tomatoes and rice still seems rather hard, add a little bit of water and cook covered for a few minutes. Salt to taste and mix everything up a little bit more before serving.


Tips/ Variations:
- I love ketchup with my fried rice, but I usually add it to my bowl after I've scooped out my portion. You can add ketchup while cooking, but it means everyone else has to like it too!
- You can add little bit of sesame oil if you like that in your fried rice.
- As I mentioned before, you can use soy sauce instead of salt for your fried rice, but I don't like adding ketchup after if it's been prepared that way.