Island Fried Rice

 

 

Island Fried Rice

3 Cups cooked rice (1 cup uncooked)
6-8 ounces ham or Spam, cubed
2 tsp oil
2 eggs
2 Tbls water
2 Tbls oil
2 tsp minced garlic (2 cloves)
1/4 cup sliced green onions
1 small can pineapple tidbits, drained, reserve juice
1/4 cup teriyaki sauce & pineapple juice, mixed

Heat the 2 tsp oil in a large skillet or a wok. Sauteed the ham, then remove it from the skillet. Beat the eggs and water together with a fork, add to skillet and scramble, breaking into small pieces. Remove from skillet.

Heat the 2 Tbls oil, and saute the garlic and green onions. This is where you can add an other vegetables you might want. DON'T BURN THE GARLIC! It gets bitter and yucky! Add the pineapple, then the ham and eggs. Stir well.

Stir in the rice, mix well. You can cook until the rice begins to brown if you like it that way. Stir constantly!

Stir in the sauce. Cook and stir until the rice coated.

This is good topped with more sliced green onions. 

Optional: Add a cup of peas and carrots, from a bag of frozen that cooks in the microwave.

Makes four servings as a side dish, or two big servings for pigs.

 

You need a BIG skillet for this!  Five quart size.  Like a fryer.  Doesn't have to have a lid, though.

 

 

 

I've never been comfortable with recipes that you can change around, but this is something that always turns out, no matter what things I throw into it. Tonight I had no green onions, but I tossed in a cup of frozen peas and carrots (cooked in the microwave first). The only time it wasn't good was the time I burned the garlic. In the Islands they love Spam. The first time I made it I used leftover Christmas ham.