Chinese Fried Rice With Lettuce

This Chinese Fried Rice recipe tastes just like Takeout (minus the extra calories) and is full of garden vegetables!

We have a ton of lettuce right now in our garden. You might have seen a sneak peak of our lettuce earlier this week in the Garden Update, but if you saw my refrigerator today you might go running in fear!  Lettuce is awesome, but when you have multiple giant lettuce heads staring at you with eyes that say “Eat me before I go bad” then you start to feel the stress!   That is one reason (there’s many) that I love gardening, it makes me explore ingredients and go outside my regular cooking box.   I have a few recipes coming up in the next week that involve lettuce and they’re all ones that I wouldn’t traditionally think of adding lettuce but since I want to use my harvest I get to have some kitchen fun and do some new ideas.   Because of this Chinese Fried Rice with Lettuce was born!

This Fried Rice is delicious and so full of vegetables.  It tastes just like Takeout Fried Rice but because you’re making it in your own kitchen you can be sure it’s much healthier for you!   Many times you throw vegetables in your rice but often times lettuce gets looked over… but not here!  In this recipe we’re going to throw a ton of chopped up lettuce and eat away!    Enjoy it for dinner sometime soon!

Chinese Fried Rice With Lettuce

2014-05-28 21:20:34

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Ingredients

1. 2 cups white rice
2. 4 cups beef broth
3. 2/3 cup chopped carrots
4. 3/4 cup frozen green peas
5. 1 1/2 cup chopped lettuce
6. 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
7. 3 eggs
8. 2 tablespoons soy sauce
9. 1/4 cup oyster sauce
10. sesame oil to taste (don't skip this!)

Instructions

1. In a small pot combine rice and broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
2. In a small pot boil carrots in water for 3 minutes. Drop frozen peas into water, boil for 1 more minute, drain.
3. Heat large pan over medium high heat. Pour in vegetable oil then stir in carrots and peas. Cook for 1 minute.
4. Crack in eggs and stir them quickly to scramble them with carrots and peas.
5. Add in cooked rice, lettuce, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Stir to combine everything together.
6. Add sesame oil to taste on top. Stir again.
7. Serve and enjoy!

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