15-Minute Butter Fried Rice

15-Minute Butter Fried Rice is an easy, quick and delicious way to create a wonderful side dish.  If you are fortunate enough to have leftover steamed rice from your last take-out Chinese food meal, then you are in great shape!  If not, no worries…just cook some up and get ready for a tasty dish!

The richness of this dish comes from frying the rice in butter.  It’s a great touch.  It also creates wonderful crunchy bits of rice that are over the top!

The rice has chopped broccoli, fried egg, green onions and a great sauce.  It can be elevated to a main course dish by adding chicken or shrimp to it.  See my notes at the bottom of the recipe.

Begin, by combining the soy sauce (or tamari), honey and chile flakes and set aside.

Next, cook the eggs until just set and scramble them.  Add the rice, broccoli and additional butter.  Toss this together with the eggs and cook until the butter coats all of the rice.  

Add the sauce and cook until the crispy bits start to form.  Finally, stir in the green onions.

In about 15 minutes, you have a delicious side dish that will be gone in less that 15 minutes!

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15-Minute Butter Fried Rice

Makes: 4 servings

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Bake Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

1/3 cup tamari or low sodium soy sauce

1 tsp honey

Chili flakes, to taste

4 tbsp salted butter

1 1/2 cups roughly chopped broccoli

2 large eggs, beaten

4-5 cups steamed rice

3 green onions, thinly sliced

Instructions

In a small bowl, combine the tamari and honey, and season to taste with chili flakes.

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the eggs and let cook until the edges start to set, 1-2 minutes. Gently scramble the eggs. Add the rice, broccoli, and remaining butter. Toss the rice in with the butter and cook until the butter coats the rice. Pour in the sauce, cook until the rice is crisping, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in the green onions and remove from the heat.

Serve warm, topped with green onions and chili flakes.

Chef’s Note:

To add chicken to the rice, I recommend cooking cubed chicken breasts or skinless thighs with a couple tablespoons of olive oil, 1-2 cloves garlic, a splash of tamari, and a pinch of black pepper. Then stir the cooked chicken into the rice with the green onions.

Recipe from Half Baked Harvest

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    • Harry

      This quick rice side dish as you called it, was a main course for me Fran. It tasted great. I went heavy on the veggies. I was very healthy. Thank u.

      • Francine

        So glad you enjoyed it, Harry! Thanks for the comment!

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